ONE YEAR CERTIFICATE COURSE

Have you ever wandered why certain characters are dressed in the way they are?

Would you like to find out about the entire wardrobe aspect of filmmaking?

This course is designed as a comprehensive introduction into the importance of costume and wardrobe to support the role of actors as well as the visual language of a film production.
You will be given a professional insight into what is expected from a modern day costume designer.
This course will awaken you to the world that surrounds you and how it is reflected on screen.
The course aims to develop confident and experimental practitioners who will push the boundaries of the subject of costume beyond its established traditional role.

Students' work proposes new ways through which the costumed body is viewed as the centre of performance. Students design, realise and experiment with costume based performance ideas that enable them to define their individual voice in relation to contemporary culture and practice, while responding visually to the relevant dramatic / performance context. 
Specifically two projects - performer in time and space and costume on film - articulate, respectively, the value of costume for live and recorded media.

At the practical heart of the School is an ethos of design and realisation. to offer students the opportunity to explore both old and new ways of practically realising costume design ideas. Taught, largely on a one to one basis, by experienced teachers, the course runs over simester, from January to December of the same year.  Students and graduates will participated in major theatre and performance festivals; The course encourages its students to initiate ideas whilst articulating a visual language of performance centred on costume,in parallel with practical exploration of fabrication in the costume workshop, involving pattern cutting, extended bodies and frames, surface textile, print and dye and costume-props techniques.

The most defining exploration and research process, however, is the one that takes place in the rehearsal room, in the collaboration with the performer and the director/choreographer. Here, often unforeseen opportunities emerge, as the structure and texture of the performance is woven together in the renewed creative process engendered by the creative team, which includes sound and lighting designers, in response to the material brought to the table by each individual costume design student.
Through this work the students attempt  to unfold meanings and moments, which are crystallized in the layers, folds, pleats, frills, canes, stitches, laces, chains, paddings and textiles of their realised costume work.'