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This is the first draft of budget but mainly for online shopping which would of been very expensive but I just wanted to research and look into the availability of certain costumes and items and where i would be able to get them, I did this so that later on when i'm able to refer back to this if we need to buy something online, this means I don't have to waste time finding these costumes and items later.

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This was a much more realistic budget and this budget was the one that i'm going for because i'm able to get all the main costumes from the playhouse hire and some extra bits online, although we were still well over budget unfortunately but at the time we had no other choice because the director really wanted the rest of the cast to these lab coats, it was going to cut it fine and we wouldn't of got a contingency budget after.

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The last budget luckily, the director decided that she didn't want the lab coats which freed up a lot of budget that we were then able to spend on one extra costume and still have contingency left over, although it's a small left over budget it's more than what we had before.

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The playhouse is an amazing resource that we can rely on they offer all types of costumes in all sizes and effects, you can find almost anything we're looking for and significantly cheaper than you would anywhere else, as well as this they provide us with reservation rails and discounts, for example we get a 30% discount for being students and we also get a discount on every week we request to have the costumes.

The playhouse is a really good resource for us to rely on if everything else fails and we haven't planned on even using the hiring source just because they're bound to have what we're looking for. The playhouse also requires you to email them for appointments which is the only downside because it means we might have to wait to be able to get anything and if we need a costume straight away then it might not be an option although sometimes they will let you in for drop in appointments.

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Charity shops are another reliable resource as it just requires us to go into town and find all the charity shops we can and look around and match prices for the items and costumes we want and need, this is a much faster resource than the Playhouse hire because we don't need an appointment and we can quickly dash out, find something cheap and buy it if we have to.

Charity shops although are easy to access they aren't always likely to have exactly what we want because they're random and especially if it's a time period production like Gatsby is it's even more unlikely, we also need to use the college card and if that's not available then that's another waiting game.

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Online is super fun and really easy to access, you can find pretty much anything you need from the copious amounts of websites that offer clothes and costumes, as well as this it's easier to match prices and find cheap items of costumes that we need. We can access online from anywhere we need to because the college as lots of computers around and all it takes is to find what we're looking for, ask permission to buy it and the one of the tutors will buy it for us.

Although online is the best way to find costumes and to price match costumes and items it can also be really hard to find specific niche costumes and items as well as the fact that ordering can take a long time depending on the website (unless it's amazon and we have next day delivery) and for example we could find a really amazing dress but it's from China and it's going to take 2 months for us to get it.

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Our storage is wonderful and full of costumes from other productions and has lot's of niche costumes and items that would be difficult to find anywhere else, as well as this it's right inside our department which means we can go and look in our storage at any point in the day as many times as we want this makes it really easy for us to make and put costumes together as well as it works well as an "emergency wardrobe" in case something goes horribly wrong with a hire costume or a costume we got from a shop or online we can rely on something being in the storage and although it won't be a perfect fit at all it's something and it doesn't cost us any of our budget!

Despite the storage being a really easy and accessible place it doesn't have everything we always need which means we can't rely on it fully all the time and it is kind of a last minute place for us to go if everything else goes wrong and we've got all the costumes we can get from there. It's a limited small place and we can only get so much from inside.

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For the budget plans we have gone up and down multiple times with them, the first budget plan was completely out of budget but it was created to just explore what was available to us online, this budget plan left no contingency money which is very risky and wasn't something I wanted to do.

The second budget came down massively but we were still over budget by a lot, 98 pounds to be exact which also left us with no contingency budget left over unfortunately this was unavoidable because the director really wanted the main suits and dresses along with lab coats and she really didn't want to budge, we was only just allowed to do this but the risk was high and I didn't feel comfortable with it at all.

Lastly, the director decided that she didn't want the lab coats which opened up a small slot of 30 pounds that allowed us to spend some money on another costumes for one of the actors who before we were just going to put together something from the storage, after this we were left with a very small contingency of 10 pounds, although it's small it's more than what we had before an more than we planned to have.

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Our costume room provides us with all the essential equipment we need to construct costumes it has sewing machines, an overlocker, fabric bins, threads and buttons, needles, snips and shears, storage for all the small pieces for costume construction like special rulers we pretty much have every possible thing we need to make a costume except for the fabric.

Fabric is easy enough to get our hands on, we have some fabric shops in town that we can walk to like Samuel Taylors and B&M fabrics, as well as this we also have fabric stores online that we can use to buy fabric from, these fabric shops also provide other things like zips and clasps that we don't always have available.

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We've only had a few meetings throughout the production at the moment and for a lot of them I had to leave early but we did manage as a team to get lot's of good notes each time. These notes are really helpful because we write down information that we can look at later to help ourselves out as a reminder or a motivator.

These notes help remind us of things the director wants us to do for them like making spreadsheets or what the director likes like a certain costume or colour scheme, these notes can work as a checklist for our team to look at and make sure that we've been doing what we've been asked to do.

They also help us communicate when things have been done by the directors that we've asked them to do like checking if the actors have shoes they can wear. Without these notes we could forget important questions, communicate things that has already been asked, forget information we've been told to do or redo jobs that have already been done and all of this would waste time for ourselves and for other people.

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This schedule made for us on the board is super useful to help us plan how long we have left till the shows have started to begin as well as it helps us plan what we need to ourselves on certain days as a sort of sub-schedule under the big schedule. It's a goo reminder to everyone to keep working and like I said before it helps us plan our own schedules and shows us dates that we need to be mindful of to work around like production meetings.