Exploring Personal Trends and Costume

To begin out costume unit we all spent some time in groups talking about our own fashion styles and clothes that we personal enjoy to wear. The main question that was asked in my group was 'Why do you choose to wear that?'. This made me think about my self and the process that i particularly go through in the mornings when getting ready.

I explained to my group that i liked to wear clothes that are fairly exspressive, and that dont tend to follow any fashion trends. I feel that i wear bright colours, and try to stear away from blocked colours and things that are fairly dark. and like there to be a lot going on in my shirts, for example.

Some people in my group saids that their fashion is often in responce to what other people are doing and how people see them. For example, someone said that "If I know that im going to be seeing someone or someone that can judge me". However personally i dont take into consideration who i am seeing, or what people think, i just wear things that i feel confident in, and go with my mood.

In this diagram you can see how three people in my group explained their own fashion sense. They were all really different takes on the subject and every different person had a different reason on my they wore certain things, and nobody had the same take on it as myself.

Later in the lesson we did an excirse which involved us getting into an order of how long it takes us to get ready in the morning. For example the first task was to get into an order of getting ready for college in the morning. I placed myself around 30mins to get ready, i felt that this was a good reflection as i dont like to spend to long on what i look like, but dont rush into it and make myself look slapped together. In contrast others placed themselves higher in the line, saying that they can take anything up to 2 hours to get ready for college, personally i could not see myself doing that, as it takes so much time out of your day, and then on the other side of the scale there where people that would just next to know time in what they look like, and again i could not see myself like this as i never know what i going to happen in the day, and i want to feel prepared.

I relation to the production of We Will Rock You, that we will be designing the costumes for, i feel that this excirse really made me think about the depth of the costume design. For example what sort of character it is can be showed through their clothes. For the character of Killer Queen she is the antagonist of the show, so this would be showed through her costume, with her wearing darker colours and being a bit ruff around the edges, like she hasn't put my effort into her look, this would give an audience an idea of her character, rather than her wearing something random that is not in relation at all, like if she wore something bright and flowing, the audience would think that she would be a positive character