Rachel+Accomplishments

Rachel Goldberg

What I Accomplished  I feel like I accomplished a lot over the course of this project. I learned to work effectively on a creative endeavor with others whose creative ideas may have been different from mine. We were able to come together with our different interpretations and opinions of the play to form a cohesive concept and presentation of the work. We all worked effectively together on the group aspects of the project, drawing from each other’s interpretations of the play for the analyses, concept statement and cast. I felt I was best able to pinpoint possible cast members to fit the characters than anyone else in my group. As I was responsible for costume design I felt that it was important for me to really have an understanding of the characters and actors alike. In addition, it was important for me to work closely with the producer so that we were on the same page and were creating a cohesive look.

 I found myself thinking about a lot more aspect of the play than I normally would upon just viewing it. I had to consider how the characters related to each other and be sure that creating a family of non-related actors would be believable. Furthermore, though the role of producer was an individual responsibility I felt that I was considering many of the same things and as such contributed to this role as I felt it was relevant for creating accurate costumes and bettered my understanding of the character I was creating through the actors and their costumes. I feel like an actual costume designer would have probably gone even more in depth with their research and consideration of each character, perhaps my analyses of each character and their costume is lacking compared to that of the real thing. Overall I felt that, considering this play was fairly simple, we as a group were able to really come together and make it our own.