3. Costumes
For costumes I had to design five
different outfits. The costumes that
I designed were for Henrietta,
Lowbutt, Queenie, Maggie Pie, and
the Bullfrog. The costumes had to
be fairly simple to give the audience
subtle hints about what the
character was supposed to be. For
example, Queenie was the lazy,
domesticated house cat, but we
didn’t give her cat ears and a tail.
Instead we gave her a tight black
dress with a breakaway skirt.
4. Costumes
Maggie Pie
Bullfrog
Henrietta
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5. Henrietta
When I read about
Henreitta’s character, I
imagined a fifties housewife
look. In the sketch that I
drew of her, she had a brown,
full skirt that was about knee
length with lots of frills on
the costume. She also had a
fancy apron which, again, had
lots of frills.
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6. Bullfrog
For the Bullfrog’s costume I
first imagined Charlie Chaplin
with his baggy pants, big clunky
shoes, and his bowler hat. Then
someone had the suggestion of
adding sequins and big
swimming googles to his look. I
also wanted the colors of his
costume to be sort of a swampy
greens.
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7. Lowbutt
When I was thinking about how I should
design Lowbutts dress, I drew a picture of a
chicken so that I could incorporate certain
traits into her costume. For example, a hen
has a very feathery tail which I incorporated
into the costume by adding a tutu made of
tulle to the underneath of the dress. Lowbutt
also had curlers in her hair because she is
supposed to be a lazy, domesticated hen, so I
thought that it would give her the appearance
of being lazy.
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8. Maggie Pie
For Maggie Pie’s costume
(who is a magpie) she was
supposed to look like a
tailored reporter. So I found a
suit at goodwill and died it
purple. I also gave her an old
fashioned, feathery hat with a
veil. Another thing that I
added to her costume was a
pair of fishnet tights to giver
her the appearance of being
sort of snobby.
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9. Queenie
The character of Queenie was a
domesticated house cat who was
very lazy. So at first when I
sketched her costume out I
thought I would have her wearing
sweats, but then I discussed my
ideas with the director and she
said that she liked my second idea
better, which was having Queenie
look very snobby. So her costume
ended up being a very tight,
skimpy black dress with a
breakaway skirt.
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10. Basic Make-up
Make-Up
Alice Limoges
The makeup jobs that I did was for
Alice Limoges who played one of
the ducklings and Jenna Hill who
played Henrietta. For Alice I did a Tools
basic makeup job with natural we
colorings. So I used foundation, used
low-lite, high-light, blush, and
eyeliner with a touch of lipstick.
11. Make-up: Henrieta
The makeup that I used for
the character of Henrieta
were darker shades of pink
This is the bright ...and this is
for the blush and a crimson pink blush that I the crimson
r e d l i p s t i c k f o r a 5 0 ’s used... lipstick.
housewife look.
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12. Set Painting
Painting the set is what I helped
the most with. I helped paint the
lily pads, the underwater roll-ins,
and the marsh roll-ins. I was in
charge of the “Cattail Island” and
the Hills.
13. Set Painting: The Hills
My first
design.
With the Hills it was a large process.
First the lead set designer had a
design for the hills that she and the
assistant designers tried. They ended
up not liking that idea and put me in
charge of the hills. So I came up
with a few designs of my own. After
I made a drawing of what I wanted My second
them to look like, my friends and I design.
started painting over the first coat.
Finally it was the week of the
performance and we still didn’t have
the hills done so the lead designer
ended up stepping in and creating a
new design that was more simple.
14. Set Painting: The Hills
First try
Second try
(My design)
Third and last try
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15. Advertisement
The advertising piece that I worked
on was the Honk! sign that we put
outside the school. I worked with
Taylor Fairfield and Linsey Puls. The
first thing that we did in making the
sign was to project the poster design
onto a piece of wood. We then traced
the image with pencil. After that we
painted the sign according to what
Vanessa Bemis (the designer for the
poster) had chosen for colors.
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16. Program Design
The design that we had for the
program was what I submitted for the
Honk! poster contest. My design didn’t
win for the poster, but it did get to be
on the cover of the programs which
was also very exciting. The drawing
that I created was of Ugly in the
middle of a road with all of the other
farm animals crowding around, glaring
at him. In the back round of the poster
was a gray sky that looked as if it were
about to rain.
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