The students will demonstrate their ability to communicate certain traits of a character through the design of a costume by designing a costume for a Shakespearean character.
Content Standard: 3: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions
Content Standard: 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices
Content Standard: 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Content Standard: 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present
Unit Description:
Students will learn basic costume design techniques such as color, texture and pattern and will use that knowledge to show character in the design of a Shakespearean character’s costume.
Lesson 2: Understanding HOW costuming communicates Students The students will demonstrate their understanding of how to communicate with clothing (using color, texture and shape) by creating a design rendering for a specific character.
Lesson 4: Time to Share The students will demonstrate knowledge of conceptualizing characters through costumes by presenting the designs that they created to the class.