| This thesis aims to analyze the costume design art in ancient-costume movies and TV series. It sorts the costume after a thorough research and gives a study on the art of designing. The paper analyzes the designing characteristics of the costume in three modes.The mold making of actors and actresses is an important aspect in a movie or play. As an essential prop, costume is an expression of the true feeling the artists has for the work. And as the carrier of a nation or region's culture and esthetic sentiment, the function of costume is no longer the basic aesthetic value of traditional appearance esthetic. By means of studying the costume color, costume style and costume's dermatoglyphic pattern of the visual language in ancient-costume movies or TV series, a close connection among specific elements existing as cultural signs can be made.The ancient costume is not only biding traditional esthetic sentiment also plays a very important part in character's psychological maintaining, giving audience visual wallop, coordinating scenes, and the costume itself is a cultural sign and has a sociology meaning. When designing the costume for ancient theme movies or TV series, it is necessary to propagate traditional culture, but new and modern designing elements also should be added, thus the old fashion is filled in with live. |