When you're setting out to design characters to live in a world, their costumes are very important. They can sell who this person is to the audience and add a lot of layers and nuance to them at first glance.Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) costume designer Ruth Araujo tackled this Sundance movie wanting to layer in all sorts of details in the costumes. It was great hearing about her strategy for this and other films. Let's dive into the interview. No Film School: Can you walk us through your creative process as a costume designer? How do you begin to envision the costumes for a film like Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)?Ruth Araujo: Sierra approached me very early in the process, which is not that common with indie films. I usually get at most a month's notice with a lot of these. She sent me a draft of the script and talked about Green Lake and how it was growing up there. From the beginning, as a complete outsider to this region, I knew I would have to take a deep dive into the particulars of this place, in the same way one would for a period film, regardless of it being a contemporary piece. My first stage of research started with the geography, the weather, the main economic activities, and the demographics of the region, but the more and more research I did, the more I found out life revolves around the lake. People in...
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