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Costume Design for the Theater OpenCourseWare: MIT's Free Online Undergraduate Costume Design Course

Published Jan 26, 2009

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'Costume Design for the Theater' is a free class from MIT that guides students through the process of creating a dramatic character's visual concept, drafting a rendered costume and building the costume. This OpenCourseWare is intended for students in a theatre arts major or minor offered through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at MIT.

Costume Design for the Theater: Course Specifics

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Costume Design for the Theater: Course Description

For theatrical costume design to be truly effective, designers must understand the director's vision, analyze the relevant character and have the wide range of theatrical design tools to construct a costume. This free Theater Arts workshop helps students develop theatrical costume design skills via lectures, script analysis and costume designing projects. Through tutorials and early assignments, students become familiar with sewing costumes and drafting costume renderings. The course culminates in the final project, where students create a design concept for a dramatic character, render the costume on paper and construct the full costume. Professor Leslie Cocuzzo Held taught this lecture and workshop format course. The original 'Costume Design for the Theater' was designed for undergraduate students in Theater Arts or a related degree program who have experience with theater design principles.

This free Theater Arts OpenCourseWare provides examples of past student projects, links to scripts used in the course, project guidelines, a reading list and class handouts. To get started on designing costumes for the theater, visit the theater costume design course page.

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