Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine production requirements
- Liaise with relevant personnel to confirm costume requirements
- Determine resource requirements with reference to costume designs and plots
- Check that costume plots take account of visual effects requirements
- Produce detailed and accurate costume breakdown lists from documented costume plots
- Review budget allocated for costume manufacture and wardrobe operation and make decisions accordingly
- Develop solutions to identified manufacturing problems and promptly communicate difficulties to relevant personnel
- Obtain approval to amend designs as required before proceeding with work
- Develop operational or project plans and schedules for making costumes according to design and production requirements
- Select and purchase materials
- Check existing stocks of materials or costumes for suitability of use for productions
- Obtain measurements of cast/performers and establish required meterage of fabrics or materials to minimise wastage
- Source and purchase suitable materials to ensure they can withstand the demands of productions and meet budgetary requirements
- Ensure that materials are available in sufficient quantities and comply with work health and safety guidelines
- Check that materials can undergo special effects requirements
- Supervise costume manufacture
- Oversee relevant personnel to ensure costume production requirements are met, quality standards are adhered to, and work health and safety guidelines are followed
- Monitor budgets and timelines and take action as required to meet them
- Make design specifications available to production staff at an appropriate time and assist in their interpretation
- Coordinate involvement of external manufacturers or hirers involved in the production of specialist costume items to ensure timelines and quality guidelines are met
- Participate in production meetings or costume parades and ensure that costume design modifications are agreed, noted and acted on
- Inform relevant personnel of costume design changes
- Update documentation and record and file according to organisational procedures