From the course: Creating a Short Film: 06 Working on Set

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Dressing the cast

Dressing the cast

- In this movie we're going to look at our wardrobe situation. If this interests you, I highly recommend checking out our previous training series on pre-production, where we looked more at the concepts and design of the wardrobe of our characters in depth. Our incredible wardrobe person was Bitsy Rini, who is one of the most talented and versatile people I've ever seen on a film set. Because of the world that our film was set in, we couldn't show any modern clothing. So Bitsy made this huge wardrobe with specialized, hand-made costumes for the main cast, but she also made a wardrobe for all of the extras that showed up or that might've showed up. She also made shoes and feet covers for the font row of extras in case the camera could see their feet. Now let's look at her dressing a few of the actors and see what a difference that made in creating these characters. Let's start with William Bradt, who played the warrior Gar'uun. William shows up to set looking, you know, just like a…

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