University of the West of England
MODULE SPECIFICATION
(Revised November 2002 )
Code: UAMPE5-40-2 Title: Advanced Pattern Cutting and Costume Construction Version: 3
Level: 2 UWE credit rating: 40 ECTS credit rating: 20
Module type: Project
Owning Faculty: Faculty of Creative Arts/ Field: Stage Management
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Faculty Committee Approval: Q & S Committee Date: 7th October 2009 - Approved Chairs action Nov 2009
Valid from: Sept 2009 Discontinued from:
Contributes towards: FdA – Costume for Theatre, TV and Film
Pre-requisites: All Level 1 modules.
Co-requisites: All other modules at this level under this award.
Excluded combinations: Modules included under Awards in Stage Management and Design.
Learning outcomes:
On satisfactory completion of this module the student will be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
• Demonstrate a good level of subject specialist knowledge in advanced costume construction;
• Evaluate the range of specialist skills and contexts that may be required for productions.
Intellectual Skills
• Research and originate practical solutions to production problems;
• Undertake research for period authenticity;
• Accurately interpret designs using appropriate research;
Subject / Practical Skills
• Cut and construct costume to a professional standard;
• Choose fabrics appropriate for printing and dyeing and achieve the correct effects;
• Undertake costume and related construction tasks using a range of practical options;
• Work in the production team to produce the requisite items as detailed by the project designer;
• Competently draft patterns using individual measurements and correct period detail;
Transferable Skills
• Make decisions and anticipate solutions to production problems.
• Work accurately and reliably to budgets and deadlines.
• Communicate effectively with other departments.
• Instruct others in safe working practices and basic sewing techniques.
Syllabus outline:
The students will take on the role of cutter/maker of costumes. Students may work on up to seven large scale public productions offering a wide range of period and style in costume. Further specific specialist skills are taught by the Head of Costume and visiting tutors. Students have the opportunity to manage their timetable and incorporate the other disciplines that constantly run alongside each other. At Level 2 the Costume students take on the role of teacher to students from the School’s Stage Management courses. They teach small groups to produce a basic item using industrial equipment within the workroom. This equips the Costume student with the necessary skills to instruct staff when working in a professional environment. During this module the students learn many skills transferable to other industries such as clothing, bridal and fashion, these include pattern drafting, sewing, safe use of equipment, fitting and altering of costume.
Teaching and learning methods:
At Level 2 students continue their learning, building on previously learned skills and increased use of their initiative. They carry out practical work on costumes required for public performance, supervised by an allocated tutor. Students learn through seeing their work in use in a professional context. Students also take part in class work to further develop specialist skills. Level 2 students learn through the application of relevant research for individual projects.
Reading Strategy
Students are encouraged to become familiar with the subject area, and texts specific to the module, through reading lists and reference material provided. Lists are updated annually to maintain currency and relevance. Each department holds texts and reference material, as well as the general access provided to the Schools library and access to the Internet. The specifically vocational nature of training and study, combined with the project based nature of learning on the course, may require that students are guided to reading and research material in the first instance by the module leader.
NB: BOVTS students do not have access to UWE Libraries and UWE OnLine
Indicative sources:
Jane Malcolm-Davies The Tudor Tailor
Norah Waugh Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900
Nancy Bradfield Costume in Detail: Women's Dress, 1730-1930
Avril Hart Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Creative Publ Intl Tailoring: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating
Individual Designers
Gilbert Adrian
Gutner, H. Gowns by Adrian, the MGM Years 1928-1941. New York, 2001
Tomerlin, S.L. American Fashion. New York, 1975
Cecil Beaton
Beaton, C. Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964
Howard Greer
Greer, H. Designing Male. Robert Hale, 1952
Edith Head
Benesh, C.L.E. Reflections of Edith Head: An Exhibition of Costumes and Sketches, February 19 Through March 28, 1976. California, 1976
Chierichetti, D. Edith Head: The Life and Times Of Hollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer. New York, 2003
Head, E. & Ardmore, J.K. The Dress Doctor. Boston, 1959
Head, E. Edith Head's Hollywood. California, 1983
Helen Rose
Haugland, H.K. Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride. New York, 2006
Rose, H. Just Make Them Beautiful. California,1981
Ann Roth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Roth
Irene (Irene Sharaff)
Sharaff, I. Broadway and Hollywood: Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. New York, 1976
William Travilla
Reilly, Maureen E. L. Hollywood Costume Design by Travilla. Pennsylvania, 2003
General Fashion Reading List
Bibliographies
Hiler, Hilaire and Meyer, Bibliography of costume (New York, 1967)
Anthony, Pegaret and Janet Arnold, Costume, a general bibliography (London, 1974)
Encyclopaediae
O'Hara, Georgina, TheEncyclopedia of Fashion (New York, 1986)
Martin, Richard (ed), The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia: a Survey of Style from 1945 to the Present (Detroit, 1997)
Steele, Valerie (ed), Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, 3 vols. (New York, 2005)
Other specialist reference
A similar range of costume reference books are used at Levels 1 and 2 in pattern cutting and costume construction. Many of the books listed contain both basic and advanced reference.
J. Arnold Patterns of Fashion 1, 2 & 3, (London: Macmillan, 1977).
R. Davis Men’s Garments 1830-1900 A Guide to Pattern Cutting, (London: Batsford, 1989).
E. Ewing Dress and Undress, (London: Batsford, 1989).
M Hill & P Bucknell The Evolution of Fashion, Pattern and Cut 1066 – 1930, (London: Batsford, 1968).
J. Hunniset Period Costume for Stage and Screen 1500 – 1800, (London: Bell & Hyman, 1986).
J. Hunniset Period Costume for Stage and Screen 1800 – 1909, (London: Bell & Hyman, 1988).
A. Ribeiro & The Visual History of Costume, (London: Batsford, 1989).
V. Cumming
N. Waugh The Cut of Women’s Clothes, (London: Faber & Faber, 1985).
N. Waugh The Cut of Men’s Clothes, (London: Faber & Faber, 1985).
Fashion Research Centre, Bath
Museum of Costume, Bath
Costume Court, V & A Museum, London
Assessment
This is a Project module with only one component of assessment. This component has only one element of assessment.
In assessing Component A there will be meetings between the student and the relevant tutor at formal assessment points over the course of the module to discuss and record the student's progress judged against the learning outcomes for this module. The result of these assessment points (of which there are normally not more than three) are cumulative in nature and give rise to a final mark/grade at the end of the module.
ATTEMPT 1
First Assessment Opportunity
Component A
Description of each element Element weighting
1. Advanced Pattern Cutting and Costume Construction – Project 100%
Working to the design brief, produce professional standard costumes for public production.
Second Assessment Opportunity (further attendance at taught classes is required)
Component A
Description of each element Element weighting
1. Advanced Pattern Cutting and Costume Construction – Project 100%
Working to the design brief, produce professional standard costumes for public production.
SECOND (OR SUBSEQUENT) ATTEMPT Attendance at taught classes is required.
Specification confirmed by …………………………………………………Date ……………………………
(Associate Dean/Programme Director)