![]() SKC: Do you have a special interest in period costume? The best way to learn is work and you’re forever learning because it varies so much from job to job. It's a fairly standard ladder in all the different departments in that you start off as a trainee, graduate to junior, assistant and then designer, but it’s definitely a long game. You have a work room where you're making, and the crowd department where you fit all of the extras, a principal team who looks after all of the principal actors, and then you have the design team. Even as a trainee, I've worked in so many different departments already. There are so many different departments within costume that I never even thought about. MW: It’s a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. SKC: What are the stages of a costume designer's careers? Is it quite mapped out? It doesn't really matter what stage of your career you're at–that's kind of how the whole industry works. And then the more jobs you do, the more people you meet. MW: Yes it’s about working well with people. SKC: So the key is to show up and do a good job at the first opportunity? So even if you don't know anybody, you never know what that opportunity is going to be and when it will come along, but when it does you need to chase it. You meet people and you just hope to make a good impression and do a good job so that they'll ask you to do the next thing. And I went up and spoke with her and got on really well and she brought me in to assist on an advert that she was styling and then a few jobs after that.įrom there, it just sort of snowballs. For me, it was in my second year at uni, we had a designer come in to do a talk with my class. MW: I got quite lucky, because film or TV are difficult industries to get into when you don't have an ‘in’. A lot of people have family members or friends in the industry, it's quite hard when you don't have that connection already. SKC: Tell me about the jump from university to a career in film. It's all just one big mash up of things that I really love. For me, it's the study of character, combined with clothes and how they tell a story – what they tell you about individuals and history. I knew that I wanted to be going down the costume route. I went and did a foundation in Art and Design at Kingston. ![]() And I also had such an interest in film, that when I sat and thought about it, it kind of all just fell into place. I realised that I procrastinated doing so much of my work, and made clothes and played around with textiles instead. MW: I used to study sciences and stuff at school, I never thought I was going to go down this sort of route. SKC: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your career so far. So it's um… one good thing to come out of the last year. There are so many things going on that everyone's desperate for crew, there's almost not enough people going around for the amount of films and TV that's being made. It's such a great time for anybody trying to get into the industry as a whole, whatever stage of your career. Meghan Warren: To be honest, the industry has never been busier. Sarah Kathryn Cleaver: How is it working in film at the moment, with all the restrictions of Covid?
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