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Working on Music Man: Beginning Mood Boards

I love creating mood board during my design process. It's a great way for me to select my main inspiration and pair it with a color scheme. The mood boards help me communicate my ideas with the others members of the production staff, such as the director. My current show is "Music Man" and while the show isn't cast yet, the director is miles ahead with her scheduling and we've already had our initial design meeting. Pictured right is my initial mood board for the townspeople in "Music Man." 

Of course the colors can be changed to accommodate the costume pieces available and the final set decisions, but for now it's a decent start to the general ideas for the background characters in the show. The director is hoping to hold auditions end of May, and then I'll be able to do measurements and start pulling costume pieces from the stock available. I am loving the 1912 time period silhouettes and look forward to getting to piece together these looks for the characters.
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