Costuming for film

the long version

"Costuming for Film is an illustrated guide to everything one needs to know to get started and work successfully in film costuming." "It covers such essential artistic matters as telling a story through costumes, visual harmony and contrast, creating focus through color, expressing emotion through line and shape and texture." "It also covers such essential practical matters as looking for work, the roles played by various members of the costume/wardrobe department, union membership and regulations, the on-set and off-set duties of all costume department members, costume craftwork, script breakdown, writing and following budgets, organizing and running a wardrobe department, designing for specific actors, fittings, dealing with deadlines, and much more."--BOOK JACKET.