gizmodo.com: New city, new look. With Scream VI’s shift away from Woodsboro, the ensemble—including Ghostface—got a makeover for the horror series’ latest entry. io9 caught up with Avery Plewes, the costume designer tasked with not only outfitting the current cast, but also incorporating past character looks—as well as dressing a massive Halloween set piece during the film’s memorable subway scene.
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As a costume designer, one of my dreams is to design for horror. I’ve been a fan of spooky stuff forever and I always enjoy my designs to have some darkness to them. Scream is such an iconic series and one of the most iconic things about it is the ghostface costume and mask. If you show the ghostface mask to anyone, they’re gonna be able to tell you it’s from Scream. That tells you that this costume designer really knows what they’re doing. Even when ghostface is pretending to be a normal person at a halloween party, the mask still sticks out as something more sinister. Avery Plewes talks about her communications and collaborations with props and set people which was really cool to read about. Hopefully I can take this as a little glimpse into my future career. I look forward to seeing more of her work and looking to her for inspiration.
I love the scream series so this article got my interest and I appreciate the way the mask has evolved over the series but has still remained its essence this whole time. It’s like when Disney makes a sequel to a movie they made a decade ago with preliminary technology and then when they do it again and the characters are rendered differently due to the massive increase in technological animation advancements but still maintain the essence of the character. I like the costume designer’s explanation of the costumes looking like they came from spirit halloween while making them not look like they came from spirit halloween since the costumes are purposely supposed to look like they were made in stores but not FROM the store which is confusing but fun. It’s also impressive that since the face in the scream costume is so funny and iconic that it hinges on ruining the fact it’s a horror movie but the costume designer and the director worked on maintaining the horror element.
So I’m not usually a big fan of horror films, but I went and saw the most recent screen movie and I was honestly very impressed. The way that the Costume Designer was able to tell hints of the story without giving much away was super impressive and some thing I hope to learn , and strive to implement in my costume design. I wanna specifically talk about the use of the screen mosques as a storytelling device, kind of reading the protagonist through this web of past history for the franchise, and every time it showed up, it was very much a moment of reflection and fear at the same time. or is not some thing I often think about when it comes to Costume Designer. It always felt kind of simplistic to me, but looking back at it more. I realize that some of the most iconic costumes that people know are the killers in horror films. Like just thinking about how many scream costumes I see selling every single Halloween is insane.
I believe that this series is a perfect example of costume being used to tell the story and demonstrating the plot and characteristics of each character. I believe that it is often the hardest part when costume designing is how to tell a characters characteristics and personality through costume. This is because that for historical costumes there are a lot of references where you can reference and be inspired from. However, how each and every designer view the characteristics of each character is different. As everyone have a different perspective in life and their own choices, it is often hard to make a piece that everyone can come up with a unified answer to such question. This article truly inspired me in what I could do in my future design opportunities. Sometimes it don’t have to be fancy or extravagant but just need to show what is in the story.
It's really intriguing to observe how the designer is expressing various facets of the character and narrative using fabric and color choices. What stuck out to me a lot was the designer discussing how it was hard for them to make the Halloween costumes appear like "costumes" and not costumes if that makes sense. I never really though of having to design a costume within a costume and the difficulties that come along with that. So it was great to read about how they went around designing these looks and the challenges that came along with it. I really enjoyed reading this perceptive look at the creative process of costume design and how it contributes to the development of a horrifying and unforgettable villain. The famous Ghost face outfit will undoubtedly continue to be new and contemporary while adhering to its origins thanks to the designers and developers of the Scream franchise.
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