Oracle resident launches costuming business; latest ‘flick’ a period piece, To Kill a Memory

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By John Hernandez

Paula Rogers Zovko has been involved in the theater most of her life. She uses Paula Rogers as her professional name as a costume designer for film and television.

Paula started out in commercial photography in Phoenix and became interested in fashion styling.

A stylist is someone who selects the clothing to be worn by a model, actress, actor, celebrities, etc., for a photo shoot, television, music video, public appearance or a movie. But there is more work involved for a fashion stylist than just selecting the clothing or costume to be worn.

Paula found that out when she decided to pursue styling as a career. She found that she had a talent for design. She then got an offer to do costume designing at Eastern Arizona Junior College in Thatcher, Arizona. She enrolled in the theatre program there with an emphasis on costume design. While there she was the resident costume designer and costume department manager.

Paula grew up in Fort Thomas, Arizona. After attending Eastern Arizona College, she went to New Mexico State University in Las Cruces where she studied costume design with a minor in history. While attending school she worked as a costumer and assistant designer for “The Gen!” a costume, masquerade and theatrical rental store. She also worked as the resident costume designer and costume department manager for Fun City. She moved back to Arizona in 2000.

Upon her return to her home state, she started working at the Greasepaint Youth Theater as resident costume designer. She then worked as Artistic Director and Resident Costume Designer for the Mesa Arts Academy. She got her break when Director and Cinematographer Dave Gil asked her to be the costume designer for a Food City commercial. She has done commercials for AAA, Lipitor, Basha, and General Mills. She most recently costume designed for a SPDR commercial featuring golf professional Camillo Villegas also known as “Spider Man.”

Paula has now been involved in more than 30 film and television productions. Her credits include: Key Costumer for VH1 100 Best Videos of All Time featuring Chris Isaack; Costumer for VH1 Behind the Music with Stevie Nicks; Key Set Costumer for motion picture Seraphim Falls, a western starring Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan; Key Set Costumer for the CBS mini-series western Comanche Moon starring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn and Karl Urban; The Flock a crime drama with Richard Gere and Claire Danes.

Paula has been the Costume Designer for the following productions: Arizona Summer with Lee Majors and Morgan Fairchild; Wild Seven a crime drama with Robert Forster and Richard Roundtree (filmed partly in Apache Junction and at the state prison in Florence); Sedona the Movie with Frances Fisher; Thriftstore Cowboy with Kix Brooks (of Brooks and Dunn), William Shockley and Barry Corbin; National Geographic Channel’s Henry Hill, Locked Up Abroad; A&E/BBC-Raw TV’s Impostor; To Kill a Memory a western filmed at Old Tucson to be released in 2012, cast includes Kix Brooks, country music artist Randy Houser (song – “Boots On”), Ernie Hudson (Ghost Busters, The Crow and TV series Desperate Housewives) and Don Swayze (brother of the late Patrick Swayze).

“Costume Designer is one of those behind the scenes jobs that most people don’t know about,” said Paula. “We don’t just dress the actors but we build characters.

Paula says that she reads the script first, takes notes and gets ideas and then makes sketches.

“I work in collaboration with the actors and directors,” she explained.

She breaks down the script, determines the number of costume changes and then figures out a budget. She will meet with the director so she can know their vision of the film. She then talks to the actors and gets their ideas about what they feel their character is like.

“I want to make the actor feel comfortable and happy so he can go out and do his best,” she said.

Paula says she must also be “flexible and organic” when dealing with actors. She has to be “willing to grow and compromise with the actor.”

Another big part of the job is finding and buying clothing. Historical period clothing is usually purchased or rented from historical reenactment specialty stores. They shop at thrift shops to shopping malls to find the right clothing. Paula is the first woman we have ever heard say that she actually gets tired of shopping for clothes. To make clothing look authentic, especially westerns, they will sometimes have to rub dirt into the clothes for it to look worn. Measuring for sizes, sewing, dyeing and fixing clothes are part of the job also.

Paula likes working in historical period movies. She loves the activity and collaboration between the director, actors and herself. She works well under pressure and likes having time constraints, deadlines and budgets. She prefers to work in local productions especially now that her kids are in school. Paula said that both of her kids were on movie sets within the first few months after their births.

Paula is proud of her work. She is a member of the Arizona Production Association, Arizona Film & Media Coalition and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage employees Local 485.

She lives in Oracle with her husband Nick and their two children. Nick works for Pinal County.

Paula has added another layer to her work as a designer to help facilitate her career. She and a partner, Gina Aller, have created Film Fatales, LLC. Film Fatales is a wardrobe business which provides clothing, costumes and accessories for movies, commercials, television and the theater arts. They rent the clothing/costumes and also have a large wardrobe truck for rental.

Gina Aller has been facilitating designing and wardrobe in movies and commercials for many years. Gina worked as a costumer in the movies Tombstone, Stargate, Fast Five, and 8 Legged Freaks (filmed in Superior). She and Paula have worked in a number of movies together.

Over the years Paula and Gina have gathered together so many clothes from the projects they worked in that they bought the large wardrobe truck. Paula also works out of her large garage where she stores her clothing and costumes. Film Fatales has an extensive stock of wardrobe from period style clothing to modern styles. Paula even has an overcoat from 1890 in the collection.

Paula is gearing up for a big launch for Film Fatales. A website is being created. They will use social networking and internet marketing.

If you would like more information about Film Fatales, Paula can be reached at 480-223-8630.

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