Quiz on Costuming

A costume parade is for

• Seeing all completed costumes under stage lights to make adjustments.

• Storing the costumes in the shop.

• Let the actors get the feel for their costume

• Allow actors to show costumers which pieces they don’t like.

These are used to show examples of fabric, lights, paint to directors so they can get the vision of a design. It usually comes with the renderings.

• Swatch

• Gel

• Vision Board

• Pinterest board

These help costume designers visualize a costume before it is actually built.

• preliminary sketches
• dressers
• cool colors
• sewing machine

Once the costume renderings are approved by the director, then begins the costume ___________.

• fitting

• construction

• knitting

• designing

Construction of the costume (or building the costume) starts by ___________ the actors.

• flirting with

• calling

• measuring

• asking

What is NOT a character trait that is used to design a costume?

• Physical traits

• Social traits

• Psychological traits

• color traits

True of False: Sketches of the costume come BEFORE the renderings of a costume.

• True

• False

Before designing and creating the costumes for a play, the costumer must attend a _________ meeting.

• actor's

• production

• director's

• stage manager's

Which comes first in the costume CONSTRUCTION process?

• sewing

• creating a pattern

• using the pattern to cut the fabric

• measuring the actor

Which comes first in the process of costume design?

• sewing

• costume parade

• reading the play

• renderings and swatches