Well, I wouldn't say that around here its been paradise, but I'm in a creative mood and that is about as creative as I can get with blog titles. First off, I do want to say Congrats to Court and Coryn for graduating!! Woohoo! Yay ladies! (even though you didn't let me know when graduation was for you . . . =p). Now I can get into the meat of my post.
I've been off busy these past few weeks, but I've also had a lot of "downtime" within all that. Sounds contradicting, but it really isn't as weird as it seems. I had spurts where everything needed to be done and my day was completely filled out and others that I slept until late morning and really had nothing to do other than read and enjoy my time. However, not everything has been like that.
Let me explain problem number 1:
I've been "contracted" to this show since end of April/beginning of May. It is for a book release by a local author. I met this author at a filmmakers meet and greet and he and Jakob hit it off really well. He saw that Jakob is a fight choreographer and told us about this event he was doing in August and wanted some fight stuff from the book incorporated into the event. Jakob agreed and then mentioned that I do custom costumes and the author jumped on the opportunity. We started working on what everything should look like when we met the "director" of the whole thing. I wasn't at the first meeting, but at the second meeting, things started going south. First, this guy decided to take over on almost everything. He said that he already had the costumes and that he was going for more of a dance routine instead of fighting. When Jakob mentioned that the author had requested the fight, the director backed down but still said he was going with the costumes he had. At the 3rd meeting he brought everything that he had--it was a disaster! He wanted to put the "fairies" in some 1920's style clothes and the warriors into these crummy looking pleather pieces. I said that if this is what he wanted to do, I wanted no part of the project. I was not going to have my name associated with this. Well, eventually we came to an agreement and I started working on the costumes.
Fast forward 1 month. They only had 1 rehearsal and very little communication with Jakob and me. Fast forward another month. 1 more rehearsal with very few people there and changes to the costume line-up. I didn't have an issue with it because I still had 1 month to finish the 6 custom costumes I was doing and adjust the others we were getting from the costume house. Then came the big 'blow-up'. For the past 3 weeks we've been trying to get into contact with the director and had no luck. Absolutely nothing. Here I am with costumes that need to be fitted to the people and I have no way of doing that. Monday was the first rehearsal that everyone was supposed to be at--very few people showed up and they weren't able to run everything together. Jakob and his fight partner have been getting together almost every week to run their stuff and when the director decided to put everything together he changed a few things regarding the fight and that completely threw Jakob for a loop. As for me, I couldn't fit everyone with the costumes because not everyone was there and they didn't have the right underclothes for me to fit the costume to. To top it all off, all the work that I have done on the wings for the fairies might go down the drain because the director thinks "they won't work with his vision" and he "doesn't like the craftmanship" on them. I about blew up. Yes, they still need to be adjusted for the dancers, but everyone else who had seen them really liked them and said they were unique. Even the author who was at the rehearsal saw them and loved it. "They have personality" he said and I realized that that was the first time that anyone associated with the show had said anything nice about my costumes (besides Jakob).
To make a long story short (yeah, I know, I know . . . .) I'm still not happy with the way things are going and the event is this Saturday evening. At this point I may not show up. I don't know.
Anyway, I'm off to work on the wings a bit more. I've got to figure out a way to get them more secure than what I have now. Uggg.
4 comments:
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!1
If I were you I would just not show up, but then that would give you a bad rep for being "difficult" because I'll be that dumb-ass director would spread that around. That guy needs a hammer to the head, seriously. He sounds like a complete imbecile. This is seriously making me want to hit something. You know I've been following your progress on this and I've been excited to see what you come up with. To see that people aren't appreciating all the work you're doing makes me so angry.
I guess this is what you deal with as a costumer? UGH!!!! Maybe you can just do book covers... Because everyone LOVES that costume. I can't wait to see those wings, and I hope you can make it on Saturday. I need to call you about that...
I wish I was kidding. The really sad thing is that the author was there and this director guy wasn't taking any suggestions from him and I know that the author was giving them. They have another rehearsal on Friday that everyone is supposed to be at, but we'll see who really shows up for that and how it all fits together.
As for Saturday, of course I'll be at your gathering! That has been booked in my schedule since you told me the final day. =)
Okay. :) I just need to talk to you about when to get the dress so I can have it set up and such stuff. It doesn't start until 11:00 so if you were planning on coming earlier like that you can just bring by that time, maybe?
I'm trying to get the image of fairies in 20's style clothes out of my head...
Wow, good luck. I know your costumes and they rock, so that director should get his head on straight.
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