COSTUME CONSTRUCTION - A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM

Over the past month we have been focussing on A Midsummer Nights dream in our btec performing arts costume consturction lessons. The reason of this is because Kings Langley school compete in something called Rock Challange and our theme is following A Midsummer Nights dream, this has been spoken about on my blog before, but it is a global competetion which is 8minuetes long and you can only express your story through dance and acting. Our school is very big on this and have been for years, it is something we put a lot of hard work into, and our very passionate about. In our costume construction lessons we have been set the task to make the costumes for the faries in  A Midsummer nights dream this is including the main faries e.g - Titania, Peaseblossom, Mustard seed and cobweb. As well as Titanias little faries who we are focussing on to make the costumes for. Here is a picture of my skirt so far-






To make the skirt we were each given a netted tutu, and we had to pick a colour theme we would like to follow, I chose to follow light pink, hot pink and yellow as I think these colours really compliment eachother and will look nice when on stage. I cut strips of the coloured silk material and took one from each colour. I then grouped the strips and folded them in half, to secure them onto the tutu I tacked them until you feel there strong enough, to test this pull the strips to see wheter they are sturdy or not. You repeat this all the way around until your skirt looks full and appropiate to what it is meant to look like. I then added decoration to add effect to the costume and make it fit in with the theme. The decorartion I added was the leaves and roses which the instructions of how to make are on the above post. The dancers will also be wearing ballet tights which have been dyed different colours, following the colour theme as well as a leotard which has again been dyed to follow the theme. The fairys costumes follow the theme of Titanias as they have to compliment one and other. Here are photos of the main fairy costumes -


(neeed to add pics)