- CUECOS13B - Create theatrical millinery
CUECOS13B
Create theatrical millinery
Application
Costume makers and milliners apply the skills and knowledge outlined in this unit. They could be working in a range of contexts - from large commercial productions in the entertainment and screen industries to amateur theatre. This unit has linkages to a range of other costume units and combined assessment and/or training with those units may be appropriate. It is strongly recommended that this unit be assessed with or after relevant millinery units from the LMT07 Textiles Clothing and Footwear Training Package. |
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1. Confirm brief for theatrical millinery | 1.1. Liaise with the relevant colleagues to confirm millinery requirements and gain approvals where required 1.2. Read and correctly interpret the costume production schedule, specifications and lists 1.3. Interpret design into practical plans for making millinery in accordance with production requirements 1.4. Select materials and methods of construction in accordance with production and performance requirements 1.5. Correctly identify style and fabric characteristics which influence construction of headwear and clarify any queries with relevant colleagues |
2. Construct and fit theatrical millinery | 2.1. Take and record accurate measurements of performers to ensure correct fitting of headwear 2.2. Use appropriate millinery construction techniques to create specialised theatrical millinery 2.3. Conduct fittings with performers and identify, record and action required adjustments and alterations 2.4. Attach all required trimmings, fasteners and decorations using appropriate techniques to achieve a quality finish 2.5. Identify and action modifications to millinery in consultation with performer/cast and/or designer, where necessary |
Required Skills
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Required skills |
construction techniques for specialised millinery items |
Required knowledge |
the role of millinery within the overall costume design and production process the scope of specialised millinery items that may be required for a cultural production, e.g. period, fantasy materials and fabrics used to create different effects and structures for specialised millinery items the link between performance requirements and the selection of construction processes and materials, e.g. physical movement, climate safety issues associated with the use of particular materials for millinery construction |
Evidence Required
The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Overview of assessment | |
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | The following evidence is critical to the judgement of competence in this unit: ability to use a range of techniques and materials to create specialised theatrical millinery items knowledge of the range and type of specialised headwear that may be required by a production. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | The assessment context must provide for: practical demonstration of skills through the creation of specialised millinery items for a production. |
Method of assessment | Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include: direct observation of the candidate using techniques to create theatrical millinery items evaluation of items made by the candidate in terms of suitability for production and quality of construction and finishing case studies to assess ability to suggest construction processes in response to different types of costume brief oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of safety issues, scope of theatrical millinery and different construction techniques review of portfolios of evidence or third party workplace reports of on-the-job performance by the candidate. Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands and the needs of particular groups (e.g. people with disabilities, and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties such as speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with interrupted schooling). |
Guidance information for assessment | Assessment of this unit requires access to: specialised materials and equipment for theatrical millinery. |
Range Statement
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. | |
Equipment used in making millinery may include: | blocks glue guns hand-held cutting machine industrial/domestic irons and steamers industrial/domestic sewing machines and overlockers scissors steamer tools, e.g. wire cutters, bolt cutters, hammers, pliers |
Materials for constructing hats may include: | buckram fabrics, e.g. felt, cloth foam found objects latex leather millinery canvas/Paris net plastics straw vinyl wire |
Performance requirements may include: | continuity lighting movement physical attributes of performers quick changes special considerations, e.g. use of harness on performer during performance special effects use of doubles/second cast |
Millinery construction techniques may include: | blocking felt hoods and capelines building a hat from straw braid covering and lining a moulding material fitting the hats making a wire foundation hat making period costume hat trimmings |
Theatrical millinery refers to the range of specialised items that could be used in a production and may include: | bridal headdresses fantasy headwear head-dresses helmets period headwear special-purpose hats, e.g. military street hats |
Sectors
Unit sector |
Competency Field
Visual communication - costume |
Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Not applicable.