Weekly Diary

3rd November 2014

This week I made samples from my rough designs. I used a small mannequin and wrapped the fabric around to sample a few designs to see what they would look like.

I sampled five of these designs.

This design would work better on a larger scale. I would use interfacing to keep the petals sticking up and out. I would also add more petals and they would look better with different colours and patterns

This design worked really well but again would look better on a larger scale.

I tested out the skirt on this design and I really liked the effect that it gave however it would work better on a real person as it would mould to the body shape instead of the wood of the mannequin.

This design didn't work as well as the petals on the skirt didn't stick out like I wanted them to. I would need to use interfacing to make this work.

I really liked the effect of this design and the way that the skirt is asymmetrical.

I tested out one of these designs by draping on a large mannequin.

This skirt looks good however I think I may have to use a pattern to get a more structured skirt. Also I would use another fabric for the skirt so I can use machine embroidery on it.

 

 



What Is Needed To Acheive The Grade

Target Audience:

• Research into audience
• Designs that link
• Target audience questionnaire

Collaboration:

• Meetings with partner recorded on blog
• Emails with partner recorded on blog
• Notes made in meetings recorded on blog

Professional presentation:

• Photo shoot
• Digital illustrations
• Outcome - garment

Printing Companies

Printing own design onto products:

• Asda
• QPR - Oldham
• Red Bubble

T-shirt printers:

• Spread Shirt
• Workwear Express
• C2O - Clothes2Order

Short run fabric print - no minimum:

• Spoonflower
• RASmart

How Am I Going To Build External Links?

To make external links I am going to make my own website to show my work, this will act as my portfolio. I am also going to try and find costume competitions to enter and I am going to enter Noise Festival competition. There is also a magazine called Vintage Life, I am going to write an article about my work and send it off and hopefully it will get published. Another thing that I am going to do is some work experience at The Royal Exchange Theatre costume department. I have already emailed the owner and I have set it up for the summer holidays.

Connecting with Chelsea

Review of Photography Partner

This week we got partnered with somebody from photography to work with throughout our project. We will work with the same theme and my garment will be shown in their magazine. We are supposed to communicate with our partners throughout the week then every Friday we will meet up to work further on our outcomes and discuss our thoughts, problems and potential ideas.

After meeting with our partner's for the first time we are supposed to write a review on how well we worked together etc. This is a little hard due to the fact that my partner wasn't even in. I had to work on my own to come up with a theme, target audience etc. I had to make all of the decisions on my own. Normally this wouldn't bother me, however, knowing that I need to make it work with my partner and for them to like it, put more pressure on me and made it harder to make decisions. It was especially hard due to the fact that I have never met her before so I do not know her style, the way she works, what she's good at and what she's not so good at. Her not being there made a lot of questions pop up making it harder for me to complete my work.

I made this mood board linking it to a magazine I found interesting called York's New Love. I liked the idea of the notebook background to link it to the fairy tale. There are ideas for the background of the photo shoot. An upcoming film guide, film reviews, film advertisements, recipes for things to eat at films, an idea of what the costume will look like and advertisements/images of Thumbelina. I really like this mood board and it ties together the idea of the fairy tale film with the magazine.