What are changes and looks?

A change is an outfit a character wears: a defined costume state, reused across every scene where the character appears in it. Build it once, link it to the scenes it shows up in, and your wear notes and photos hang off it.

The word depends on your department. Costume calls it a change. Hair & Make up calls the same thing a look. It is one underlying record either way, so the steps in this section read the same whichever department you are in. On mobile you pick a department, so you see Changes or Looks depending on which you are in. On web both sit side by side: a Changes tab for costume and a Looks tab for Hair & Make up.

Why changes drive continuity

A character usually moves through several changes across a production: a work outfit, a party outfit, a torn version after the fight. Each one is its own change, with its own ID and name, owned by the character. When you link a change to the scenes it appears in, those scenes share the same garments, photos and wear notes, so continuity stays consistent every time that outfit is on camera.

• Change ID: the reference for the outfit, for example 1, 2A, 3B. It is how the change sorts and how the rest of the crew refer to it.
• Name: an optional plain description, like "Red gala dress", to make the change easy to recognise.
• Scenes: the scenes the change is worn in. One change can cover many scenes.

Ready to build one? See Creating a change or look. Once it exists, attach your continuity against it with Scene wear notes.