Georgia Dartnall

I have chosen to design a costume of the character of Mirabel as she is the one, I will be paying in the actual show. Mirabel is a young girl imperfect and weird and quirky, but also deeply emotional and incredibly empathetic. Mirabel is a young girl who may be imperfect and “weird,” but is also empathetic and emotional. She’s determined to prove that she belongs, denying to everyone, including herself, that she feels all alone even in her own house.

Background info:

Born into the Madrigal family, Mirabel is the youngest daughter of Julieta and Augstin, and the younger sister of Isabela and Luisa. In addition to being the niece of Felix, Pepa and Bruno, Mirabel is also the cousin of Dolores, Camilo, and Antonio. On the night of five-year-old Mirabel’s gift ceremony, she touched the door handle of her soon-to-be room, excited about what kind of gift she would get. But her door suddenly faded away, and she didn’t get a gift like the rest of her family. This left everyone who attended the ceremony shocked, especially Abuela. Ever since that day, Mirabel has been desperately trying to make up for not having a gift by helping out in an attempt to “make her family proud”. Abuela and Isabela over the years distanced themselves from Mirabel because she did not have a magical gift and the pressures they carried respectively. Being the only child not blessed with a gift, she is constantly being made to feel left out of her family. Despite this, she genuinely loves her family.

My design:

The costume I would design for Mirabel would be to have her in a white long, frilly sleaved top, with pink and black embroidered onto the edge of the frills. This would give the top a bit of a pop of colour so its not just plane boring white. Mirabel would also have a long blue skirt with lots of pink, purple and orange embroidery on it. She would also have parts of her whole family’s gifts to give the feeling that they are all connected, not only but the Encanto and the miracle but my Mirabel herself.

Elements of design

Shape and pattern:

Shapes and patterns will be used a lot throughout Mirabel’s costume. This is because her costume will consist of lots of embroidery designs. Upon a closer look you can see that Mirabel has parts of her whole family embroidered onto her skirt and top. For example, Animals for Antonio’s gift and flowers for Isabella’s gift. Her costume also consists of the family candle and butterflies, which we find out later in the show/ movie that they represent the origins of the family’s miracle.

Colour:

Mirabel’s costume will consist of many very bright colours. The main colour of her costume will be shades of blue and white, with hints of pink, purple and orange. The colour blue represents freedom and loyalty, which I feel represent Mirabel very well because she is always trying to protect her family even if she wasn’t given a gift. She also is always very loyal to the family even when Abuela and Isabella, sort of exile her a bit when she wasn’t given a gift. The colours Pink and purple represent, peace and innocence. I feel like peace is a big one to talk about as part of Mirabel’s character development throughout her story is to find peace with herself after not getting a gift. Lastly the colour orange represents happiness and joy which basically sums up Mirabel’s entire personality.

Mood Board:

Reflection Questions

What were the biggest things you learnt while completing this task?

Something that I learned was that drunk driving is one of the biggest risk factors when driving on roads are intoxicated drivers. The casualty crash risk also doubles when driving with an alcohol level just more than 0.05 BAC, and the risk of involvement in a fatal crash increases even more sharply.

What one piece of advice would you pass on to young drivers above all else? Why?

One piece of advice I would pass on to young drivers is that any alcohol in your system at all will affect your ability to drive. This means that you can cause fatal crashes and you could sustain long- term injuries or death to yourself, our passengers, or other drivers on the road.

Write down a pledge that you will commit to when you start driving. Why did you pick these things to commit to? How will you stick to these commitments?

I will commit to never drink and drive and go high over the speed limit. I chose to commit to these things as they will not only protect myself on the roads, but it will protect other drivers. I will stick to these commitments by always paying attention to my speed on the road and think before I get into my car to drive home after I have been drinking and maybe get an uber or taxi instead.

Final Product

Question Two: Please discuss the vocal techniques you selected to create your character.

The vocal techniques I selected to create my character are tone and pace. I used tone to suggest that my character was very stuck up and not nice at all. There are moments in the play where Cinderella and Minerva have a raw moment, this is a moment where I had to transition my tone from this very stuck up and mean character to a small amount of kindness and sympathy. I also used pace, I had to use then in part of the show when Minerva started to ramble or when she was in an argument with her sister, Cinderella, or her stepmother. This is really shown in scene 7 after the ball.

Question Five: Discuss how you used the elements of drama (mood, relationships, dramatic tension, time, and space) to create dramatic meaning in your performance.

I used the element of drama relationship to create meaning in my performance. There are three main relationships that Minerva has, these are with her sister, mother, and Cinderella. Minerva and Calliope have a “love, hate” relationship. During the play, the only time they are nice to each other is when they are ordering Cinderella around or when they are being mean to her. Other than those moments Minerva and Calliope are always fighting and arguing with each other. Minerva’s relationship with her mother is only a one-way relationship. Minerva is always trying to impress her mother and show her love, but her mother is always pushing her aside to get what she wants. The last relationship that she has is with Cinderella, throughout the play she starts to actually like Cinderella, even if she is hiding it just to impress her sister and mother.