Beginning my Costume Ideas.

I have begun sketching my ideas for my costumes. The director has said he wants to keep this play in the medieval period. I agree that this is the best way to represent it and furthermore I am really trying to get across as much as I can the atmosphere of Chaucer's original tales. I want the audience to feel as though the characters have stepped straight out of the original writing. Chaucer's work was all about storytelling and this is a very important element and theme of the piece. I have already done in depth research to back up my ideas and through experimentation and idea development I hope to get that theme across. I am pleased that I began planning early on as my script breakdown and analysis have helped me to focus my ideas and to collate the best and most useful research. This project is exciting in the way that the costumes are very much dictated by the actual performance and story telling elements. I feel I have already learnt a lot about the period and how to represent the tales and I look forward to the further challenges that will arise.