First (Official) Day!

So for my internship over winter break I will be working at the high school I graduated from as a guest designer for their showing of Dancing of Lughnasa! While the job isn't as glamorous as I would want it to be, it's still a great opportunity. My theatre director and I had a meeting earlier this week about his image for the show. His ideas and my preliminary ideas were very similar, so I was happy to hear his ideas. Another part of my internship involves going in to the school's technical theatre class to help them understand how to costume a show. One thing I really wanted to demonstrate to the class was the fact that costuming does not just involve sketching and then making clothes. Costumers must pull from costume shops because making everything can become expensive and time-consuming. Today in class the kids all presented their renderings of two of the characters from the show. It was very interesting to see everyone's different takes on the looks. The class is interesting to work with because just one year ago I was in that class. I've been working on renderings today which I will present in class tomorrow as well as to my director sometime this week. So far my renderings are a mix of knowledge from the movie version of the show, my research on the era and my own style mixed in.