Jacqueline Mills Costume Design
School of Silence 1 & 2
Lucky Day Productions for CBBC. 13 x half hour children's gameshow.
Britain's noisiest children are sent to the School of Silence to prove that they can be quiet. They are put through intensive silent training in which they face a range of hilarious challenges that are all designed to make them laugh, scream and shout – but what they must do is keep absolutely silent!
The brief required a headmistress and teachers with strongly drawn personalities, which would be enhanced by their clothing. The costume designs reflected a combination of iconic school images with zany and humorous contemporary twists. Characters include formidable headmistress Faluna Gobstop, bombastic military man Colonel Kittens and badly dressed nerdy old-world schoolmaster Mr Gross.