How Color Brings Doctor Strange's Team Together
Every last detail of film production is important, especially when it comes to costume [...]
Every last detail of film production is important, especially when it comes to costume design.
Costume designers are tasked with bringing a character to life and making them appear just perfect, while telling their story through distinct colors and fabrics.
Colors, fabrics, and overall style must all work together in order to successfully recreate what fans have already seen in the pages of comic books.
In a recent visit to the set of Marvel's upcoming film, Doctor Strange, costume designer Alexandria Byrne spoke about using the right fabrics and colors to tell the story of each character:
"I use color very instinctively. I only realized that when I was doing Guardians of the Galaxy when everybody had different skin colors and I spent about six weeks being paralyzed not knowing what color to put people in because I wasn't working with skin tone anymore"
She went on to explain how she was inspired by the comic books:
"I think color for costume designer is one of your biggest story-telling devices because you're pulling focus or you're playing composition with color. The main inspiration for how I start to use color or allocate color is work. It comes from the comics and that's where it all starts from."
Doctor Strange releases in theaters on November 4, 2016.
