Suzanne Barnes

Collaborating with Director/Producer and Actors regards to character development, aesthetics and budgets. Sourcing/pulling costumes with a knowledge of suppliers in the LA area. Hiring a Costume team and delegating tasks according to the skillets.

Creating the LOOKS for Actress Charisma Carpenter for the Host Links. Dealing with budgets, and collaborating with Network, Production Company, Talent regards to the type of look for presenting this type of subject matter at hand which in this case was one of an 'Investigative' nature.

Filming in three countries and hiring local costume crew. Working with budgets in four currencies. Also supervised film dealing with continuity and fittings therefore script breakdown and working within a set budget with given deadline.

This required some research and knowledge of where to source/pull the costumes involved for this stylised genre and characters based on the downtown LA Arts scene with a Neo-Noir backdrop. Job also required a script/budget and character breakdown and selecting a Costume team with varying skill sets.

Assisting Spanish Costume Designer and collaborating with a Spanish/UK production. Using my knowledge of suppliers/UK brands, job mainly involved introducing Designer to the UK market and attending fittings.

Assisting Costume Designer and researching the historical and period at hand. My role was to focus on the accessories for the leading actors within varying time changes in the storyline and also pull from costume houses.

Assisting Costume Designer, attending fittings, and costume standby which involved costuming principle actors and running a costume continuity system on and off set. Collaborating with other costume crew.

Costume Buyer collaborating with Costume Designer from Los Angeles involved dealing with local suppliers, brands in the UK retail market. Also sourcing for fabrics and having an understanding of costume construction regards to fabric types and the practicalities working on a big hollywood film with action scenes.

Film shot in London and Los Angeles, collaborating with Director, Producer and actors regards to character, script and budget breakdown and working towards to deadline. Also involved supervising and overseeing the film as a whole.

As Assistant Costume Designer involved a knowledge of UK Brands/suppliers in other regions aside from London. Attending fittings, dealing with deadlines. Attending script read throughs, rehearsals.

Collaborating with Director, Producer and actors regards to aesthetics, budget and working with a narrative driven script involving squibs and fire scenes. Working with International and UK Retail brands and some selected couture labels for principle actors. Hiring a costume team with correct skill set for the scale of film.