Costume design ideas PP#12
Now for my opening, I'd like to break it down into two major portions that require focus to the overall costume designs. First is the obvious, which I'm going to talk about first, and then proceed to talk "costumes" that not only takes up much more of the opening, but is going to be required for more characters.
First is the knight outfits. I was thinking quite a bit on how I would get these done, and after some time I think I got it. Well, my first idea was to just outright buy two knight outfits from Party City, and just go from there. But there's a couple problems with that. First, they cost money! And currently at the moment I'm not really doing to fluent on cash at the moment. Moreover, I feel like it'd really take away from the idea of creating something. A majority of costumes from movies and whatnot are made from scratch, and aren't store bought. Plus it'd just take the fun away!
So what do I do with these knight costumes? Welp I thought of an idea that is not only pretty cost effective, but makes sense in context. I plan on making the knight outfits out of cardboard, as not only do I have an abundance of cardboard boxes (since I'm moving), but also it would make sense since DnD is largely associated with LARP (live action role-playing)
You know those nerds dressed up in the middle of an open field, with poorly created outfits and acting as if they're in the midst of battle?
THAT is what I'm trying to accomplish when I go with these cardboard outfits. It'd make sense in the situation (since the opening revolves around a bunch of kids playing DnD), and would be a perfect transition towards the other portion of the opening.
I'm sure it won't be too hard to make a two sets of armor for the pair of knights. I looked at a couple YouTube videos, and they only span at about a couple minutes, so how hard can it be?
PLUS! I've actually made costumes in the past that are heavily cardboard related. Unfortunately I don't have a picture since that Halloween was years ago, but I do have some experience under my belt.
Now for the other portion, in which focuses on the group of friends who are playing DnD. For their costume designs, they're obviously less prominent than the knight outfits, so they're going to require less focus. And as opposed of making them wear something super specific, I think I'm going to give them a simple prompt, and they can just how they want from that. Since the design isn't a major focus here, I won't focuses as much as the other portion. So for that part, I want them to wear the following:
- Normal clothing, nothing too out of the ordinary
- Something they would wear to school, so it makes it as if they've came back from school.
- That's pretty much it
- But look good!
These are a couple photos of the people who are gonna be in my opening, and I want to show what they usually wear just to prove that they are actually decent human beings when it comes to attire. And what you see above are most likely what they are gonna wear, or something similar.
But that's pretty much it in terms of costume. Now I gotta make the cardboard ones.....
See ya!
-Noa
Sources!:
https://grinningskullstudios.design.blog/2014/01/10/seven-things-i-miss-about-larp/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWHBhOweY4&ab_channel=Mark%E2%80%99sWorkshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBSNAT-6GhI
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