Work Plan

Project Action Plan and Timetable
Week	Date Week Beginning	Activity / What you are intending to do – including independent study	Resources / What you will need to do it – including access to workshops
1	30/1/17	Introduction to Unit 7 – lecture Pre proposal preparation Pitch preparation Review of work to date Create new blog	Used files from lecture to understand FMP Used Pinterest for initial starting points WordPress for blog
2	13/2/17	Half Term – initial research Preparation of pitch	Cirque du Soleil film on Netflix, Research poems, Shakespeare’s books, try to create storyline for costume theme
3	20/2/17	Pitch Write proposal	Create PowerPoint as a way to present my ideas. Feedback from tutors for FMP theme and start to develop on it. Start proposal using guideline sheet
4	27/2/17	Submit proposal Artist Research Experimental fire and ice samples Vlog of week	Take out library books, drawing my interpretations of fire and ice, glue gun techniques, using wading to create 3d textiles, dye fabric, sew into plastic, stitch and slash. Vlog to evaluate weekly outcome
5	6/3/17	Weaving workshops Fire and Ice primary research Melt plastic Vlog of week	Looms, warping and weaving workshop with textiles technician, ice cube and clumps, camera, tripod, camera light, Bunsen burner, elements to change colour of Bunsen flame. Vlog to evaluate weekly outcome
6	13/3/17	2D Felting workshop Begin to create designs for costumes Tutorial with Jamie Vlog of week	Workshop in textiles with the textile technician on how to make my own felt. Tutorial to see if Jamie can give me any other artist references and to have a critical evaluation of my work to see where he thinks I am working at. Vlog to evaluate weekly outcome
7	20/3/17	Design development. Vanishing fabric. Illustration development – faces Vlog of week	Create designs for possible final outcomes – using pencils, dyes and fine-liners. Create vanishing fabric samples using words based on love and feud. Try and create my own style for illustrations. Vlog to evaluate weekly outcome
8	27/3/17	Further design and illustration development Begin to consider finalising designs Acetate designs	Collage photocopies of my samples and use them to create possible costume outcomes. Look at designs and consider possible outcomes. Take designs and photocopy onto acetate to sew them together and develop further.
9	3/4/17	Begin to create garment Digitial print Fabric Shopping Festival of Making Garments Find models for festival of making	Taking one of the designs using materials to start to create life size version.. Facebook posts, ask friends.
10	10/4/17	Easter Holiday
11	17/4/17	Easter Holiday
12	24/4/17	Finish weave dress Design and finish ice garment Find song for fashion show	Continuing to weave with dress idea. Create a more structured design for ice dress and then make it. Find a song that has a good beat and rhythm for models in fashion show.
13	1/5/17	Radio interview about festival of making at radio Lancashire Finish fire cape Have a through think about exhibition ideas Book studio for next week Festival of making fashion show Rehearsal on the stage	Interview at radio Lancashire talking about my work and the festival of making. Sew all fire pieces together to form a cape. Decide how I would like to present my work in the exhibition. Book studio for Thursday 11th May. Style garments for fashion show & have rehearsal on stage
14	8/5/17	Deadline FMP Photoshoot of garments	Studio space to photograph work with one of the photography students – hand in work
15	15/5/17	Hang Exhibition ( prep studio)	Prep studio by clearing space and old work. Put up boards to reshape the room into a better exhibition space.  Gum-strip boards and paint all boards white.
	22/5/17	Hang Exhibition Submit  blog link, submission pack ( including authentication form, work plan, proposal, evaluation and bibliography)	Bring my exhibition ideas to life by trying different ideas of hanging or whether it would look better on a mannequin. Try paper sizes for options of photograph sizes.
	29/5/17	Spring Bank Holiday
	5/6/17	Assessment Unit 7
	12/6/17	Assessment Unit 7
	19/6/17	Exhibition Private View 21/6/17

Exhibition Setup – part 3

After all the hard work of sanding and painting, we got allocated spaces where we began to set up our work. 

I haven’t set up the photographs as of yet because I need mounting board from college which is due to come after half term, however, I placed A1 and A2 paper onto the boards to decide which would be too big or too small.

I think that the A2 is definitely too small and I even think that the A1 is too small so I have made the decision to use photo size of A0.

Edited Photographs from the Shoot

I chose what I thought where the best photographs from the shoot, to edit, so that I could begin to prep for the exhibition. Once edited I plan to see which two photos of the fire and ice will look the best for going on display in the exhibition.

The Festival of Making – Fashion Show

Location: The Windsor Suite at King Georges Hall

https://vimeo.com/216693230 

My garment show starts around 9 minutes 26 and finishes around 10 minutes 46; I was really impressed with my three garments and my models showed them off beautifully! I am so proud of my work and what I have achieved for my final major project.

Fire Cape

The idea behind the cape is to cut individual pieces of chiffon in a flame-like pattern and then sew it all together. I illustrated how I wanted it too look;

Again I think this look is successful and strong, but I think it is my least favourite garment because it hasn’t turned out how I envisioned it too look, but I still think that it is really strong. I didn’t get any photos of this garment on the mannequin so I intend on doing a photoshoot next week, after the festival of making fashion show, to enhance and properly display this garment.

Choosing a Song for the Festival of Making

Choosing the right song for a runway show is really important because you want it to have a good enough beat to walk to but you don’t want it the lyrics to become too important and scramble up the meaning behind your garments. I wanted to use an 80s pop rock track for mine because I really like the beats they have but also because some modern songs that I like would be too cheesy and deface my meaning behind my fire and ice – these options where:

• New Dress by Depeche Mode

 

• Strangelove by Depeche Mode

 

• Blue Monday by New Order

 

• Friction by Imagine Dragons

 

• Kids by MGMT

 

However, in the end I decided that the best song for my three garments to walk down to in the Festival of Making fashion show would be Blue Monday by New Order because the introduction is quite long and has no lyrics on it so it would allow the audience to gain their own opinions on my garments before the lyrics start. I think it will enhance my theme because when I link back to my origin of Romeo and Juliet, you think of the feud their families have which would in effect correlate to a warrior fight-like and confident walk in which the models will walk in time to.

Ice Garment

I wanted to complete my ice garment and sew it all together, however over the easter break I had been worrying about this garment because of its weight and I thought that once it was unpinned from a mannequin and and sewen together it would loose its shape because it wouldn’t have anything else to support it.

Even though it does look really successful the weight of it would completely changes is form, structure and strengthen when not pinned to a mannequin so I had to find a solution to fixing this and finding a way to make it work. For me this meant that I should experiment again with ways to present it and too look back at my origin of FMP, Cirque du Soleil, to find a new idea to inspire me for the ice final garment so that it would still look bold, structured and strong.

Danielle suggested trying to work in a less structured way by pinning the ice triangles onto a long strip of fabric and then wrapping it around a mannequin so that I was free to change how it looked when on a model.

I gave this idea a go, however, I truly hated it. For me it looked dreadful and doesn’t represent me as a costume designer; I honestly felt like it looked ridiculous and lost the whole meaning and inspiration behind my FMP idea. It was a big no from me. After this, I felt like I was having a block with my work and I wanted to work from an actual design instead of pinning things to a mannequin and trying to find a design that way – so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a really strong design, which represented a warrior who was ready for a final fight like the houses of the Capulets and Montagues where in the original play, wrote by Shakespeare.

I decided that I wanted to work from a small cami top then build upon the cami with the ice triangles and adding the blue chiffon materials from the weave dress to link the two garments together. I thought that if I changed the straps of the top and used the chiffons to braid 3 new straps on the top it would create a warrior feel to it, but also make it look slick, structured and strong. I wanted to then have braids in the hair with the chiffons to create a headband to keep adding the blue colouring but also to enhance the warrior feel.

I think that it gives off the idea that I wanted it to and it also looks really successful, structured and strong. I need to get some black shorts for the model to wear underneath this garment but I think when it comes to the fashion show it will look really successful, warrior like and strong with the help of hair, makeup and styling! I cannot wait to put this garment on the catwalk and show off this ice warrior look.

Finishing the Weave Dress

24th April

Throughout pathway day, I have been working on my fire and ice weave garment, in order to try and get it nearer to completion. At the end of today, I haven’t got much left to do and I am really happy with the outcome of it so far – with this in mind I know of one problem which has already occurred because I haven’t left arm holes but once I have completed the whole garment I plan to work on this as I feel it will have been easier to add in arm holes at the end than adding them in as a design element.

25th April

After yesterdays work, I haven’t got much left to do, when looking at my weave dress. I continued to weave for the first hour and a half of the day which allowed me to successfully complete my fire and ice combined garment. With regards to the arm hole problem, I am relieved because it is easier to put the garment on then add the arm holes one by one – it doesn’t even look like they haven’t not been apart of the design. I asked one of my class members to put on my garment so that I could see what it looks like on.

I think overall the garment is beautiful and mesmerising and I think this garment is definitely the strongest garment that I have ever created to date. However, one other problem occurred when creating this garment, which wasn’t recognisable until it was placed on an actual body instead of a mannequin, which is one side has rose and gone shorter than the other side; I do really like the not symmetrical placement and think this has added successfully to the design but I will need to create some shorts to go underneath this because otherwise it will be quite revealing for people who come to watch the fashion show. I plan on getting some high-waisted knicker shorts then adding fabric to them which is the same fabric as the ones in the weave dress.

Overall, I think this dress is amazing and successful, even with the problems that have arose I feel that they have actually improved and helped the design of the garment and I am looking forward to seeing my garment in the Festival of Making fashion show.

The Festival Of Making

An opportunity arose for textiles and fashion where we can show off three garments in a catwalk show, which is going to be filmed by companies like the BBC, as apart of The Festival of Making. I originally decided that I would show off my two animal garments and my fire and ice garment but me and Danielle both agreed that it wouldn’t make a good collection of my work because they are too different from one another; with this in mind I decided that I would create three garments for my final major project, one inspired by fire, one by ice and one of both fire and ice. I sketched out some ideas too see what could work but also what I could deconstruct to reconstruct back into one final garment for my final major project.

My three garments would be –

1. Fire: a cape out of chiffon to create a flowing, fire flame effect
2. Ice: Digitally printed triangles of my ice photographs
3. Fire and Ice: a weave using the colours of fire and ice

Fire Cape

After sourcing chiffons from a local shop, Cheapest Fabrics, I began to cut fire flames out of the chiffons so that the cape would be make from fire shaped patterns instead of one piece of material

Ice Garment

Moving forward from the ice neckpiece, I began to pin all the different sized triangles onto a mannequin to see the effect it would give off as a dress.

All I really need to do now with this garment is sew them together, I would like to add some other triangle textures using a stronger material to get enhance the effect of ice – I saw something similar on the show Project Runway, season 8 episode 3 (Its a Party) where April Johnston used only materials from a party store where the effect of the garment reminded me of ice.

Fire and Ice Garment

This garment would be a weave on the loom I created out of a choker and a hula hoop.

Fabric Costings

Shop: Cheapest Fabrics

Price: £43.50

Fabric Amount: 20 meters of reds, blues and orange chiffons

Digital Print Triangles

Using my digital printed samples I began cutting them into triangles and filling them with wading so that I could create possibly a structured neckpiece. I began by cutting the prints into half, but on the diagonal bias to get the triangle shape, I then cut a similar sized piece of cotton or felt to give it back so that I can wad it out. I decided the best way for me to create these triangles would be for me to use the overlocker machine because it creates a neater seam line; I overlocked two of the three sided then, turned the triangles inside out, stuffed with wading then overlocked the final side.

Once I had then created all the triangles I decided to start to pin them onto a mannequin to see how I should move forward with this process.

I think that, overall, the triangles look really successful but I think that I want more drama within the piece so I plan on creating two more sizes of triangles and upscaling them, so I can achieve more drama.