{"id":5488,"date":"2018-05-07T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=5488"},"modified":"2018-05-07T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:53:13","slug":"character-costuming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=5488","title":{"rendered":"Character Costuming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lesson 4: Character Costuming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning Objective: <\/strong>Students will demonstrate their ability to make appropriate, period accurate, costume decisions by creating two costume designs for a character within their selected production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials Needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Western costume (on display)<\/p>\n<p>Renaissance costume (on display)<\/p>\n<p>White board<\/p>\n<p>Dry-erase markers<\/p>\n<p>Drawing Paper<\/p>\n<p>Colored pencils\/markers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hook\/Warm up: <\/strong>Have students take the first 10-15 minutes of class to observe the displayed costumes and create a background story that uses these costumes.\u00a0 They should be able to justify their story with specific observations they made about the costume. \u00a0For example, the character they are creating is a hard-working mother on a farm because she has an apron that is slightly soiled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Split the class into groups of five and have each student share the background story they created.\u00a0 As the teacher, walk amongst the groups and listen to the stories being shared.\u00a0 Have each group pick two different background stories that will be shared with the class.\u00a0 After each group has selected two people, have those selected come to the front of the classroom and share their story with everyone.\u00a0 If the story is vague and doesn\u2019t point out details, ask the student follow-up questions like \u201cwhy did you think your character does ____ for a living?\u201d \u201cwhat helped you come up with that idea?\u201d \u201chow would this costumes choice have helped them do ____ in their life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instruction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the selected stories are shared, begin a class discussion to analyze the costumes on display.\u00a0 Have students answer the questions\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What era is each outfit from?<\/li>\n<li>Why do they recognize it?<\/li>\n<li>What does the fabric say about the character that will wear this costume?<\/li>\n<li>Is the character poor, wealthy, or middle class?<\/li>\n<li>Can you conclude anything from the pattern of the costume?<\/li>\n<li>How were you able to identify all of these things? And what else would you research to learn more?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Where have you seen similar costumes being used? (western could be productions of Oklahoma, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, western TV series\u2026 Renaissance costumes could be seen in Shakespeare productions, medieval festivals\u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Point out that students have unknowingly done a little research on these time periods before class today, even if it was simply through observation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask students if they\u2019ve had to formally research any specific time period before. It could have been for a class project, theatre production, or just for fun.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>If a student has, ask them about their research process. What resources did they use?\u00a0 Did they look into costumes specifically?\u00a0 Were they surprised about any of their findings?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>As a class, identify different ways to research costumes. (Write this list on the left side of the board)\n<ul>\n<li>Possible answers: google, films that take place in the specific time period, fabric stores and their costume patterns, books, magazines\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What things should they be paying attention to? (Write this list on the right side of the board)<\/li>\n<li>Popular fabrics used, occupations of characters, how were the fabrics made back then, cut\/design of costumes, social status\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of the things discussed are important things to keep in mind in order to create a period-accurate production.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have students think back to the show they\u2019ve selected to research for this unit and begin to brainstorm the kind of costumes they would like to use for that particular show.\u00a0 Using the lists on the board of research resources and important things to pay attention to, have the students apply what was discussed and do their own research for their individual productions.\u00a0 Students may have access to library computers, magazines, possibly even the costume closet (if there\u2019s easy access to it).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using the research done in class, have the students create two costume designs for their selected production.\u00a0 There should be one male costume and one female costume.\u00a0 Students will be provided with paper and colored pencils.\u00a0 For the students that are uncomfortable with drawing, they can have access to the library computers and printers and can come up with different costumes through pictures.\u00a0 Another option would be to have students write a detailed description of the costume they would like to create.\u00a0 Each student, no matter how they decide to create their costume, should write a description of the costume and justify why they decided on each piece of the costume.\u00a0 It should answer the question of how the decision supports the character\u2019s time period, occupation, social status and other things that were listed on the board.<\/p>\n<p>Papers will be turned in at the end of class and points will be given for their justifications of the costume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If students finish early, challenge them to create another costume for a different character in the production they\u2019re researching.\u00a0 They will continue to create costumes until the end of class.\u00a0 Each character costume created can be displayed on their final bulletin board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson 4: Character Costuming \u00a0 Learning Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to make appropriate, period accurate, costume decisions by creating two costume designs for a character within their selected production. &nbsp; Materials Needed: Western costume (on display) Renaissance costume (on display) White board Dry-erase markers Drawing Paper Colored pencils\/markers &nbsp; Hook\/Warm up: Have students &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5488\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}