Making the costumes

Rudi, Ryan and I, along with the rest  of our media class went to Helen's bay in order to collect the materials needed to make our costumes.

We collected seaweed and shells. These will be used to make our costumes. The seaweed will be glued to a burlap robe along with some of the shells.

We drilled holes in each of the shells using the equipment in the technology department. When all the shells had holes in them, we threaded string through them and tied a knot after each. These shells will be suspended from one of the costumes and some of the other shells will be glued onto another.

These are two of the finished costumes (shown above and below), modelled by Rachel and Rudi. Each costume will be worn along with a mask or a hood. The costume shown (left) is a real pagan dress that inspired the first costume. As you can see, the costume contains a large amount of hay joined to the body.  Instead of using hay, we decided to use seaweed as the main decoration of this costume.











When this costume had been made, it looked quite bare and so we decided to glue some shells around the seaweed.

This is the pagan dress that our second costume was modelled on.  This dress used clam shells suspended on strings but we decided to use more generic, white shells instead as we felt these gave it more of a seaside feel.