Final props and costume
For our performance, props were more important than the costumes. Although the costumes were difficult to decide on at times (clothing not shoes). The reason for this is because we all played some many different characters; we could not restrict ourselves for one costume to represents one character. We had much discussion as a company on what people wanted to wear. We knew we did not want all black because we felt that was edging towards GCSE drama.
After much debates, we decided on, black jeans/leggings. Along with a top of their choice, nothing with patterns or labels, just plain, simples tops. I asked people to bring their tops in so I could check them other and I ask Oliver Samuals to wear a shirt for the pacific reason of him playing a doctor and geek characters. We used certain clothing to represent characters further, such as the Bosnia scene. We used a smart/military jacket.
However, the most important part was the shoes. Obviously our shoe is called ‘Shoes to Fill’. We wanted shoes to represent the characters we were playing as we were ‘stepping into their shoes’. Our performance had a variety of verbatim in it and I needed to make sure I got the shoes clear for the characters. On the day of our performance Diana gave me feedback and said the only ones she would change are the nurse’s shoes. I stuck with Diane’s decision and changed them to some white dolly shoes, which is what Diana said to do.
Hope Tarmey Peters was an individual character and only had one character throughout the script. She did movement in certain scenes. All of the movement was barefoot because the actor performing the verbatim was the character. With Hopes individual monologues, me and Tamsyn thought separate shoes boxes representing important elements in her life would be affect, such as ‘growing old’ ‘job or uni’ and furthermore stand out to the audience
I hope I made the right choices in the costume and props I went for. It might have not seemed much our props but it was hard work collecting 50+ shoe boxes and shoes and very thankful to the people that helped me throughout. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to take pictures of peoples props and costume because I was so overwhelmed with what was happening.
Hope’s final shoe boxes.
Photos by Tamsyn Webley (2015)
Shoe boxes for opening song.
Photos by Clare Owen (2015)
Work Cited
Owen, C. (2015) Pre-set.
Webley, T. (2015) Final Props.