Job Description

The Assistant Costume Designer reports to the Costume Designer. They are responsible for assisting with researching, sourcing, prepping, pulling, and fitting principal, day player, and background actors. Responsibilities: Prep Collaborate with Designer: • Spend time with the designer to pull from vendors and shop for the principal cast to ensure alignment with the designer’s vision. • Assist in creating and finalizing full looks for principal cast fittings by ensuring that shopping is completed on time and includes all required elements. Coordinate Fittings: • Work with the coordinator to set up a fitting schedule for actors, ensuring that times align with the designer’s availability. • Support the designer in liaising with rental houses to receive photos of options, obtain pricing, and establish return timelines. Ensure costumes arrive and are returned in a timely manner. Resource Management: • Oversee the creation of a local resource spreadsheet by the shopper. • Work with the wardrobe supervisor to schedule and manage weekly Monday morning team huddles, ensuring all team members are clear on their weekly tasks. Costume Reference Boards: • Create costume reference boards for background (BG) looks and seek designer approval. Filming Communication and Preparation: • Type up and send detailed costume notes to casting for communication with BG. • Work directly with background casting to obtain sizes for background actors. • Prepare garment bags and size tags with the shop set customer and pull costumes for fittings with background actors. Stock and Scheduling: • Prepare and pull stock racks for specific BG characters to ensure the on-set team can access them on shoot days. • Organize and assist in managing the tailor and shopper schedules, prioritizing tasks according to the shooting schedule. On-Set Assistance: • Exhibit flexibility by assisting the designer with principal, day-player, and BG cast fittings, and establishing costumes on set. • Review post-fitting notes with the designer to ensure any needed items or alterations are delegated appropriately to the team. Approvals and Documentation: • Approve BG looks on set with the customer. • Document, photograph, and track needed clearances in collaboration with the Costume Coordinator. Send clearances to the clearance department and follow up for approval. Qualifications: • Union member in good standing or willingness to join • 1-2 previous projects as Assistant Costume Designer for the entire run of production • Google Drive, sheets, etc.  • Keynote • Canva or other similar creative layout tools About Company: Tires Season 2 is a union Netlix production shooting in the West Chester, PA area.

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Local area, Day shift,

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