COSTUME PRODUCTION
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Do you have an eye for creating clothing and costumes and experience in fashion design or theatre production? Specialize your career as a costumer or costume technician. Fanshawe’s Costume Production program builds on your skills, equipping you as a costuming and wardrobe specialist in the exciting field of live entertainment.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Program Code
TCS3
Credential:
Ontario College Graduate Certificate
Duration
30 weeks
Canadian StudentsInternational Students
START DATES
LOCATIONS
AVAILABILITY
Full Time Offerings
2023 September
London - Downtown
Open
2022 September
London - Downtown
Closed
YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE
The Costume Production program is an eight-month graduate certificate program that will prepare you for a career as a costuming and wardrobe specialist. Graduate with the skills and confidence you need to work with costume designers in a variety of areas in the live entertainment industry.
This two-term Ontario Graduate Certificate program will build upon students' existing Fashion Design and/or Theatre skills and prepare them for working in a wardrobe department for the entertainment industry. Students learn both the technical and creative aspects of costuming for theatre through components of classroom theory, studio training and practical work placement. Advanced classroom studies in theatre history, wardrobe planning and script analysis serve as the foundation for the focused practical training in technical costume cutting and construction.
You’ll also develop project management and collaboration skills, by collaborating on multi-disciplinary projects with students in other programs in collaborative practice courses. During your final semester, you will apply your costume technician skills in a field placement in a professional theatre company, TV location or film wardrobe.
The curriculum is designed to provide technical study and hands-on experience in building costumes. The program offers students the unique opportunity to work in collaboration with industry professionals within actual theatre wardrobe settings during their field placement. This program is supported by affiliations with The Stratford Festival, The Shaw Festival, The Banff Centre of the Arts, The Grand Theatre London, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET).
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RELATED PROGRAMS
Academic School
School of Digital and Performing Arts
Program Coordinator
Karen Harley
Pathways
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
An Ontario College Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design with a minimum 'B' average or 3.0 GPA
OR
An Ontario College Diploma in a Theatre Production related program with a minimum 'B' average or 3.0 GPA and completion of a Portfolio and Sewing Test*
OR
An equivalent qualification from another institution with a minimum 'B' average or 3.0 GPA as judged by the College and completion of a Portfolio and Sewing Test*
OR
A combination of relevant education and work experience in a related field as judged by the College to be equivalent to the above and completion of a Portfolio and Sewing Test*
SHOWENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
SHOWAPPLICANT SELECTION CRITERIA
COURSES
| LEVEL 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| DESG-1095 | Women's Cutting 1 | 4 | ||
| DESG-1094 | Men's Tailoring 1 | 4 | ||
| FASH-1018 | Costume Construction 1 | 2.5 | ||
| FASH-1053 | Costume Accessories | 4 | ||
| FASH-1050 | Dyeing | 2.5 | ||
| DESG-1093 | Costume Interpretation | 4 | ||
| DESG-1101 | Innovative Wardrobe Practice 1 | 4 | ||
TUITION SUMMARY
London - Downtown
CANADIAN COSTS
$4,608.32
TOTAL COST OF PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL COSTS
$16,644.14
TOTAL COST OF PROGRAM
*Total program costs are approximate, subject to change and do not include the health and dental plan fee, bus pass fee or program general expenses.
