After seeing Fen's and Keri's final patterns for their costumes, I thought it best to incorporate similar patterns into Mrs and Mrs Jaffeth's costumes to finalize them. I cannot decide which colours I like best on the characters, so again, I put up both options. :) Jaffeth was apparently the ancestor of the Mediterranean people and some of their ancient patterns were fairly similar to Arabic patterns as well.  

Fen Barr - Mr and Mrs Noah Final Designs

Noah and His Wife - Final Designs 

I played with colours and patterns, altering the colours of stained glass windows to look like arabic fabrics, I really like what Keri has done with similar patterns in her designs. I toned down the colours in the tunics so Mr ad Mrs Noah matched one another better. I liked Steph's idea of the tunic/maxi and think possibly the same (or similar) patterns in different colours/fabrics could could work for most of the characters. I personally like the married women with covered heads, like in Keri's drawings as it's a bit more accurate to the geography and time period. 

 I chose to go warmer in General with Noah and his wife picking out some contrasting colours within the patterns of some of the items of clothing so at a distance they look almost one colour but close up it can be seen that it is made up of lost of different colours. I kept the heavy feel of the cloths and think scarves and drapes could be made from adapted pashminas etc. as the intricate patters may be too hard to create. 

Some of the patterns I kept the same, more simple patterns. I liked Steph's designs with the splattery dyed fabric and feel I could incorporate similar dye techniques into Noah and his wife. I liked the pink on noah with the gold concentric circles, which remind me of ripples on water, and the red with gold glowy dots for Mrs Noah. 

I think these may work in batik but could work better painted in bleach onto the fabric. I think a fabric with a sheen would look really good something silky but stiff and opaque such as a rayon to give an almost metallic texture to them adding to the heavy/solid nature of the costumes of Noah and his wife to contrast with some of the other characters who wear more floaty fabrics. 

Noye's Fludde: Final designs

Noye's Fludde: Colours Development

These are some colour developments. I didn't focus much on the patterns here because I intended to choose the strongest design and then apply the pattern to this design afterwards.

Noye's Fludde: Sketches/ Costume Development

To begin with I had several different ideas of styles for Ham's costume. The influence from the photographs I posted earlier can be seen in the costumes shapes, such as the rounded arches found in design 1, and the shape of the Moroccan style doorway in design 7. All designs, although it cannot be seen, would have hoods on the back. I liked the idea of having two layers in the costume, so a quite plain looking dress beneath a more detailed shawl-like garment over the top. In the designs where the shawl is one shouldered, the hood would have to be attached to the dress beneath, however in designs 3 and 7, the hoods are attached to the garment on top.

Since we were missing a person to do Jaffeth and his wife, I made some initial ideas and experimented with colours, it would be nice for Fen's pattern ideas to be incorporated into the coats and shawls. If people have other ideas or have developed something different for the brothers and their wives then that's fine we can use that instead. Feel free to take ideas or colours to develop them seeing as I didn't spend too much time researching Jaffeth, I just wanted to try and use the images of Noah and Jem we had already and to try and get the characters to be incorporated into the family.

Noye's Fludde: Influence maps

After having gathered the information about Ham I have decided to incorporate the African culture into my designs because Ham was linked with Africa as mentioned in the previous post.

To do that, I have been taking my own photographs to use for inspiration, influence and design process  whilst being on holiday in Morocco. (Anyone can use these photos for this project if you find them relevant for your own designs!)
For instance, the buildings shapes will be integrated into the costume design, patterns will be useful in terms of the costume's decoration.
Concerning the last influence map, it serves the purpose of giving me an idea about things such as shoes and general style contained in the African Culture.

Regarding Ham's wife's costume design, this will be designed to match his using the same influences.

As for the colours, the influence images for these will follow after my posts showing the initial ideas for costume style and shape.

Noye's Fludde: Research

 

While developing the ideas for the Gossips I felt that these costumes were not right for the drunken characters, however if they can help with any developments for the other ladies being designed for Noye's Fludde you are welcome to take ideas from them.

Gossip design developments

Some developments for the Gossips trying different pattern positions, colours and shapes of kaftans and collars.

Dark Blue Gossip

Sea Green Gossip

Sea Grey Gossip

Light Blue Gossip

Gossip with a different shaped kaftan and collar

Gossip with a different shaped kaftan and collar

Mr and Mrs Jem - Stephanie 

Apologies for the late post.

For Mrs Jem I thought that it would be nice to use a modern boyfriend maxi dress, as it's not dissimilar to the biblical style of dress. I wanted to use the same colour scheme of greys with more vibrant tones for both of them. I'm not sure about the colours I've used at the moment but I think a dull dress with vibrant scarf on Mrs Jem and a vibrant dress and dull waistcoat for Mr Jem could work. 

I'm really not sure about the colours I've used and it might be nice to tie in an overall colour scheme with the brothers. I think it could also be nice to get some pattern in there, I like what Fen has used in her designs. 

Original Mood Board/Visual Map - in case it's useful

Mood Board

Here is the mood board or visual map given to us for anyone who may benefit 

Here is also my basic mind map if it's useful to anyone (just realised I missed off Kandinsky to Expressionism) 

Fenella Mr and Mrs Noah Costume Design

Noah and Noah's Wife 

I've been trying to marry together bright contrasting and harmonious colours to make the most of the colour used in the costume as it seemed an important feature on the mood board given.

Photographer Steve McCurry

I looked at photographer Steve McCurry because of his amazing command over colour. Much of his best work comes from his travels in Asia and North Africa where he photographed the people he met. the photographs below some of my favourites from Afghanistan, India and Morocco, where in some rural parts, clothing styles have not changed that much since ancient times as practicality and tradition are important.

Ancient Judean Artefacts

I looked to find some artefacts from the time period of the story of Noah and the Arc. I focused on ancient Judea but also looked at some Roman depictions of the period for the style of clothing. In my designs I've put both Noah and his wife in a heavyish woven tunic with hoods and scarfs draped about their bodies and heads. I opted to go traditional in terms of the shape of the clothing. I also took some inspiration from the colours used in the ancient cloth and jewellery.

Arabic Patterns and Stained Glass

On of the key images I picked out of the mood board was that of the stained glass windows because I felt it included many of the other features such as bold colours, geometric patterns and of course a religious significance. While doing my research I found that the patterns in a lot of stained glass windows where similar to those used in traditional islamic prints. My drawings are supposed to have a suggestion of pattern as I felt these where too intricate to draw at this point but I think traditional arabic prints with the super modern Steve McCurry colours would be really striking.

I also took inspiration from the mood board's 15th century religious art for the harmonising earthy brick colours. I thought it was a nice touch to include the brick colour of "The Red House" the iconic home of Benjamin Britain the Composer of the opera.