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Chemagne Martin is a Toronto-based Costumer who studied Fashion Design at George Brown College and has been working in different positions in the costume department since 2013, such as, Costume Buyer / Shopper, Set Supervisor, Truck Supervisor and BG On Set (extras costumes). Thoughts about a career in costuming started when Chemagne was designing costumes for a few dance troupes in Toronto. Chemagne continues to be involved in her own projects designing Sci – Fi headpieces and costumes.

I have been working in the film / television industry for the past 8 years in various roles such as, Costume Buyer / Shopper, Set Supervisor, Truck Supervisor and BG On Set (extras costumes), just to name a few. Furthermore, I have a fashion design background in which I made costumes and custom-made clothing for clients, dance troupes, and created my own dance / yoga wear. My Assistant Costume Designer credit includes: Shelved Productions (Ep. 102 &104) My costume buying credits includes: Royal Queens, Holly Hobbie Season 3-5, Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe, and Crossword Mysteries. More of my daily buyer / shopper experiences are outlined in my resume.

Resume Available Upon Request.

I am well organized, detail-oriented and very diligent with my work. I have a passion styling, sourcing fabrics and hard to find clothing / costume pieces. Furthermore, I am familiar with script breakdown, tracking receipts, and the importance of keeping up to date with schedules and deadlines.

Highlights Budget oriented and good with numbers

Excellent knowledge of P-cards, Cheque Requests, Returns

Strong knowledge of Cashet, Sync On Set

Detailed oriented and organized

Excellent communication skills

Script breakdown

Meeting tight deadlines

Great relationship with rental houses and their policies

Great at sourcing fabrics, items, and clothing pieces

Experience with various apps and programs such as Google drive, cashet, sync on set, excel sheets, gmail, yahoo email, canva, drop box, what’s app, power point social media platforms, calendy, microsoft office.

 

Experience

Costume Buyer

  •  The Big Cigar TV
  •  Jul 2022 - Jul 2022

Fashion buying for the Costume Designer. Online shopping and returns. Shopping and styling at various retail fashion stores to help create looks for actors. Tracking receipts, reading scripts to understand what happens in the scenes. Data entry of receipt information on P card sheets. Technical shopping, threads, fabrics, buttons, notions.
Communicating by email, what's app texts and phone between costume designer, assistant designer, and costume supervisor, and costume assistant.

Costume Buyer

  •  Horror of Dolores Roach
  •  Jun 2022 - Jun 2022

Fashion buying for the Costume Designer. Returns. Researching and sourcing. Online shopping and returns. Shopping and styling at various retail fashion stores to help create looks for actors. Tracking receipts, reading scripts to understand what happens in the scenes. Data entry of receipt information on P card sheets. Corresponding with the Costume Supervisor that all data input is accurate. Communicating by email, what's app texts and phone between costume designer, assistant designer, and costume supervisor, and costume assistant.

Assistant Costume Designer

  •  Shelved Productions
  •  May 2022 - Jun 2022

Assisting and supporting the costume designer with the preparation of costumes for all actors on set and in the scene. In addition, I provided administrative assistance to the costume designer by communicating by email with actors, scheduling fittings, inputting actors measurements and information on the sync on set program, organizing and filing physical costumes and information of costumes in a book by scenes. Shopping for actors. Styling and help with creating looks, fitting, measuring, note taking, and data entry information on excel sheets. Reading scripts to understand what happens in the scenes. Script breakdown. Communicating by email, what's app texts and phone between costume designer and costume buyer.

Costume Buyer I Tracker

  •  Royal Gossip Productions
  •  Oct 2021 - Oct 2021

Fashion buying for the Costume Designer. Online shopping and returns. Shopping and styling at various retail fashion stores to help create looks for actors. Tracking receipts, reading scripts to understand what happens in the scenes. Data entry of receipt information on excel and Cashet. Corresponding with the accounting department that all data input is accurate.

Costume Buyer I Tracker

  •  Calico Productions
  •  Apr 2021 - Aug 2021

Fashion buying for the Costume Designer. Research and sourcing. Returns. Online shopping and returns. Shopping and styling at various retail fashion stores to help create looks for actors. Tracking receipts, reading scripts to understand what happens in the scenes. Data entry of receipt information on excel and Cashet. Corresponding with the accounting department that all data input is accurate. Organizing and filing of clothing items on racks and on excel sheets. Cheque requests. Pick up and drop off at rental costume houses. Petty Cash and P cards. Communicating by email, what's app texts and phone between costume designer and assistant designer.

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Education

Diploma

  •  George Brown
  •  Sep 2001 - Apr 2003

Fashion and creative arts

MA (Course Work)

  •  Wilfrid Laurier
  •  Sep 1998 - Apr 1999

Graduate course work in Environmental Social Studies and Geography

MA (Course Work)

  •  University of Waterloo
  •  Sep 1997 - Apr 1998

Graduate course work in Local Economic Development

B.A. Arts

  •  York University
  •  Sep 1993 - Apr 1995

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

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