Set and Costume Design

On Tuesday 19^th April, Frankie and I with a little help from Jack came up with some costume and set design ideas.  We drew these on a white board so we could rub it off and draw another and correct it easily instead of doing it on paper.  We then took photo’s of the board so we had a record of the design.  We first discussed the set as we had mentioned having an invisible boarder for the two separate worlds of the narrators and the actors but we weren’t sure how to represent this.  We talked about having a rail or something but Frankie correctly pointed out that if we put it in the middle of the space, we would be blocking half of the space from some of the audience.  We then discussed the idea of having the rail at the back facing front with some basic set on it.  We then decided it would be easier if we had cloth with the setting painted on it and then turn it around and have another setting on the back.

This is what we came up with.

We also thought about the costumes for the characters.  We drew up some ideas on the whiteboard.

This is Little Red’s costume design.  She will wear a skirt and leggings with a girly cardigan at the start to please her dad who is against girls being tomboys.  When she leaves the house and enters the woods putting on some trainers, taking the cardigan off to reveal and sports top and wrapping it round her waist, she will roughly tie up her feminine hair and mess up her face in some way such as putting a bit of mud on or roughly removing her make-up.

This is the wolf/the dad’s costume design.  When he is the dad, he will have a flat cap on, a black button up shirt done all the way up, black trousers and a colourful tie.  When he is the wolf, he will take off the cap to reveal spiked up hair and take off the tie.  He will undo the top few buttons of his shirt and will have a chest wig on underneath and wear black gloves.

This is Olly’s costume design.  He goes into the story as a woodcutter so we decided that Olly would have a simple black overcoat on with jeans, a check shirt and braces underneath and black boots.  We agrees that I should have the same on not only to match but also to show that boys and girls can wear the same clothes and that fashion isn’t masculine or feminine. 

So this is my costume board.  It is basically the same as Olly’s.  We will be wearing the same clothes but just in a different way.

I quickly drew up a plan of the layout of the stage so we knew whether the set would be blocking any of the actors.