Photorealistic/ Collage

Tender by Abi Morgan is a play about snap shots of individual lives which interlink and cross paths throughout the story. ‘Photorealistic’ (Cole and Burke 2005) is a style of rendering which reflects life as clearly a possible and capturing a preview of the costume as near to what it will look like on stage. Designer’s such a Paul Brown have used this techniques for sometime to best communicate their vision. His detailed rendering demonstrates clarity and depth which enables him to retain visual control with no room for miss interpretation. ‘Everyone’s time is wasted if you don’t know what you’re doing or what you’re trying to create, a good design helps’ (Brown 2007). He retains artistic allure with gray scale faces which pull focus on the design of the clothes being worn.
Collage is not a new technique but has been enhanced with the introduction of computers. Quick image editing allows for multiple options to be tried out for individual character. When discussing her designs for Twelfth Night Claire Lyth (2002) comments: ‘By creating a body for each scene digitally it was possible to re-design the costumes as ideas progressed, without starting again each time. Other designer such as Becs Andrews and George Souglides also use digital collage as method to communicate their ideas clearly. Tender’s hard look at reality and the everyday lives in modern society lends itself well to this style of rendering.