CDG - The Costume Designer

46 H M DG W Dramalogue, and the Los Angeles Theatre Circle Aard. She distills decades of eerience into the sllabus she cre ates for her students. nlike universities and colleges that rimaril teach design for theater, IDM is one of the fe schools to o er an etensive rogram in costume design for lm, television, and rint. SaintAnne has eanded the original ro gram started 20 ears ago b visionar educator costume designer Mar a Stoltz into a rogram tailored eclusivel to design for camera. er fo cus is sulementing courses ith rofessional knoledge and eeriences. ractical informa tion on netorking, lmmaking, and ehibitions are big arts of the 15class costume design cur riculum. SaintAnnes goal is to have the graduat ing class ositioned to hit the ground running. In addition to udating the curriculum, some classes ere relaced. A ne class, Advanced Stling for Costume Designers, is geared to ho to shoots for rint and events, covering essential asects often overlooked like cast hotos, red caret stling, and osters for movies. er resti gious Designers of ote anels are a huge hit ith the students. I admire and am grateful for the scores of CDG and 05 colleagues ho oined us inerson and on oom to talk about their ork, their challenges, and successes, sas SaintAnne. To name ust a fe Ellen Mironick soke ith stu dents from her heart about her design rocess, CDG resident Salvador erez shared an intimate vision of himself as a oung designer via oom, and good friends ikolaus Bron, enee aha el, and Ti an uh gave a ver livel discussion on shoing for Sourcing the Costumes. Other anels covered toics like Distressing, Set Cos tuming, inances for the reelance Artist, ego tiating, ashion to Costume, DesignerSuervisor Collaborators, and Stunt Safet. SaintAnne adds secial thanks to those creating demos and e eriences, like visits to Dis ne Anima tion, set vis its to oung Sheldon, and design eer cises ith IDM graduate Marina Tobina, ho has oined students for the last three ears to evaluate de sign suitabilit for The Masked Singer. She notes, ro ect mentoring is an area e ish to eand. Alas seeking as to shocase her students, she initiated an annual collaboration ith the Costume Designers Guild Aards to install an imressive ehib it honoring the Life Achievement aardee at the CDG offi ces. I invited friends from SCs lm roduction facult to a movie night, knoing the ould see our ehibit. The ere so cativated b the students e ression of character through costume that hen go ing virtual during COID, the alloed m IDM design ers to attend all the SC lm and television roduction classes as art of the cre. As a result of SaintAnnes ardent netorking, class members design the Masters Thesis student lms at AI, SC, Chaman niversit, and LM. The also design the Straight to Series tele vision roduction at SC. This is the 20th anniver sar of our rogram. e are celebrating ith a IDM ilm and Television Costume Design etrosective Student ilm estival, announces SaintAnne. oin us in the sring 65 s tage pl s, 14 films, 13 te v s i , 53 movi w k, 61 op • . 46 H M DG W

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