Tuesday 31 March 2015

Being a costume assistant for a faux sitcom tv pilot

I had the opportunity of being a costume assistant on 'a madman in a life boat' by matt stokes.

This is a part of the press information about it on his website:

'Matt Stokes’ new Matt’s Gallery commission Madman in a Lifeboat is an immersive, sculptural video installation, built around the pilot episode of a faux situational comedy series.
The exhibition is based on the surreal imaginings of 74-year-old East Londoner, Charlie Seber, and investigates his life’s work developing a movement called Truth, Reality, Activism – created by Seber following an epiphany whilst working on East End building sites during the 1980’s'

http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/stokes/exhibition-2.php

This was amazing work experience because it was fun, and I also got the chance to go on set while they were filming to see the effort that goes into it. I was with the makeup artist of the show so got to see what she did through the filming and it gave me a better understanding of the job.

These are just a few pictures of the costumes that we helped with, and also a few pictures from on set:

The costumes included a Heart, Cigarettes, An alien Galileo, and Earwigs. 






The pics below are from location, The potato is a puppet:



























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