#cosplay documentary

My Facebook memories reminded my that this documentary on Cosplay, which I wanls in, premiered 11 YEARS AGO.

I watched some of it today and I am amazed at how much cosplay, creation, and sharing our creations has changed. There are materials and technologies now that didn't exist when I started. There was no Worbla, no 3D printers.

Very few companies made products for cosplay -- coloured contacts, coloured wigs better than Halloween quality, sewing patterns, they weren't readily available. You had to binge-shop at Halloween Sales, special order, or go to theatrical supply speciality stores. Or, in my case, all the way to Harajuku.

And TikTok didn't exist. Insta didn't exist. Twitter BARELY existed. The only place to share your costume and carefully rehearsed skits and sketches was during the Masquerade of a convention.

I'm not pining for the past, I want to make that clear. I'm not saying that the way I had to do it, the harder way where you had to carefully pause films and sketch costumes because the resources weren't online and the ability to screencap was limited, was better. I'm not putting a value judgment on it. I'm just saying it was very VERY different.

And I miss cosplay. I'd love to get back into it but I feel intimidated by all these tiktokers and amazing makeup artists. You all have so much talent💜.

Rock out, with your Croft out – Lisa Hendricks is Tomb Raider

Lisa Hendricks cosplaying Lara Croft from Tomb Raider photo by Cos We Play

Cosplayer: Lisa Hendricks

Location: The skyline of Cape Town city bowl

Character: Lara Croft, Tomb Raider — see the full gallery here

Photographer: Cos We Play

It’s time to rock out with your Croft out. That’s right viewers, 21 year old film student Lisa Hendricks is our 31st cosplyer to be featured on Cos We Play. The…

Cosplay: From Fabric to Finish. 

As it stands right now on my google drive. Hopefully in the future I’ll be able to upload this to vimeo or youtube but yeah this is the edit I showed to my class.

I thank all the people who attended the con and didn’t mind that I shoved a camera in their face as well as my amazing friends @100-percent-beef-jasper and @the-imperfect-example who just didn’t give a fuck about what I captured since they knew I barely knew what I wanted to capture either.  This was one of the biggest stress tests I encountered this year

anyone who was interviewed or mentioned in this please reblog with a name I can credit on here!

Crossplay has been a large part of the Cosplay scene almost as long as the latter has been around, but what is Crossplay and how has it adapted to the modern day perceptions of Gender and Sexuality.

One of our videos is finally officially online, and on a subject I’ve wanted to explore for a long time. We often see a lot of videos explaining the concept of cosplay, but not so many exploring the concept of Crossplay from different gender and sexuality backgrounds. I would be interested maybe in the future at looking at other backgrounds, as well as approaching the world of MTF crossplay.

Are there any other crossplayers out there? What are your interpretations of what crossplay means to you after watching the video?

So a few of you might have noticed over the past 5 months I’ve been working on a cosplay documentary. Well, it’s finally ready to show! And we’re having our own online broadcast of it and the 2 other films made for my uni course. 

The documentary follows a pair of girls as they make their costumes for an upcoming convention in the UK. Unlike many cosplay documentaries I wanted to follow the girl’s progress as they struggled to complete items they thought were above their average skill level. It shows issues to do with budgeting, cosplaying in public, photoshoots and most of all time managing when they try to fit cosplay around their busy lives.