This document summarizes jobs in creative media, focusing on costume design. It outlines the responsibilities of costume designers in charge of designing, creating, acquiring, and hiring costumes for actors and extras. Costume designers typically work on short-term contracts for individual films and get paid upon completion. The document discusses required skills, qualifications like degrees in costume design or fashion, and certifications in garment production. It also lists transferable skills useful for the role like creativity, communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure to deadlines. Costume designers are typically recruited based on experience working their way up from other costume roles.

1. Jobs in Creative Media
Job Title Costumes
This job is for fashion designer to sew clothes for actor
and actress and junior artists.
They are in charge of designing, creating, acquiring and hiring all
costumes for Actors and extras.
creative,
Professional working practices codes of practice, eg BBC guidelines, web accessibility
guidelines (W3C),
press codes of conduct, advertising standards; legal
restrictions, eg libel law, Misuse of Computers Act,
Race Discrimination Act
Contracts, conditions and pay They get contract of costumes by only for one film and
they get pay after completion of work they get fixed term
contract, they work own their own and they charge per
out fit.
contracts, eg full-time permanent, part-time permanent,
fixed-term,
freelance;
work patterns, eg shift work, office hours, irregular and
anti-social hours;
pay, eg salaried,
hourly, on completion
Skills and qualifications To become a costume designer, candidates will need to
demonstrate a high level of design skills and practical sewing
ability. Many costume designers have a HND, degree or post-
graduate qualification in a related subject such as, costume
design, fashion, theatre design or performing arts (production).
Practical garment production skills can be also be gained via
qualifications such as
ABC Level 1, 2 or 3 Awards, Certificate or Diploma in
Fashion and Textiles
City & Guilds Level 1, 2 or 3 Award, Certificate or
Diploma in Creative Techniques in Textiles
ABC Level 3 Certificate in Apparel Manufacturing
Technology
ABC Level 3 Diploma in Handcraft Tailoring

2. NOCN Level 1,2 and 3 Awards, Certificate and Diploma
in Skills for the Fashion Industries and Making it in
fashion
SQA Level 3 SVQ in Kilt Making (SCQF Level 6)
education and training, eg full-time and part-time
education, training on the job,
continuing professional development, self-training, Level
2, Level 3, graduate, post-graduate; sources
of information, eg Sector Skills Councils (Skillset,
Creative and Cultural Skills, e-Skills), unions, careers
services, trade and other publications
Transferable Skills It would be useful for someone considering a career as a
costume designer to have some of the following skills and
interests:
creativity, imagination and excellent design skills
good communication and organisation skills
good research skills and knowledge of costume history
and modern fashion
good stamina and the ability to work under pressure to
strict deadlines
highly organised and the confidence to motivate a team
able to put others at ease (when working closely with
actors in a physical sense)
able to break down scripts in terms of costume plots,
and have knowledge of story structure and character
arcs
personal attributes, eg knowledge and skills,
commitment, efficiency, reliability,
punctuality, self-presentation; key skills, eg number,
communication, working with others, improving own
performance
Methods of recruitment They get jobs by
The role of Costume Designer is not an entry-level position, and
practitioners need considerable knowledge and experience in
order to design for feature films.
national press; trade press; internet; word of mouth;
personal contacts; internal

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