First of all, i volunteered to be in the costume department for Prosa Mania. Honestly, i had to because i sympathized my friend Tiqah, the head of costume team, as nobody would want to work together with her for some reason. I got to be her assistant, along with 4 other members.
We had to plan out and draw a few drafts of costumes for the show. We had to send them to the one who’s in charge of our production, Sir Adika and ask for confirmations from him. We had to plan out costumes for actors such as:
- Kampung Enggang characters
- Kota Tambar characters
- Realistic world characters
Though our drafts kept on getting declined until we got to the 4th draft. It was a little confusing and stressing us out as we had to make new culture costumes for Kota Tambar characters.
The king wearing Floral shirt and jeans? Fantasy characters wearing modern world rock outfits? Those were some of the tips that we’ve been told by Sir Adika and we have never been more confused. I visualised that it would be the typical fantasy ensemble as Kota Tambar is an imagination world of one of the characters in the story, Syafiq.
Then, we went to go search for costumes at the Costume room. It was a really fun work until we had to bring all of them out and keep it in the changing room at the Experimental Theatre.
As the show time came, I wasn’t really able to help them manage the costumes for the actors as i was also involved in the Musicians Team, i was one of the vocalists.
All in all, it was a successful job and everyone was happy about it including Sir Adika. It was a really fun task for us though we did have issues to deal with but everyone stayed commiting and helped each other. I look forward to work with costumes again. FYI, i’m also into fashion and fashion forward person so that’s probably the reason why i find joy in it.
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