Week Twenty Five

Week Twenty Five

For textiles this week we worked together to create a mood board based of the one we designed personally so that we all had aspects we wanted in our group mood board. This was useful as when we started to create initial ideas we where all making designs based off of the same pictures and drawings. To develop our initial designs when we where at home we made sure to send our initial designs to each other to gather feedback an dhow to improve our design so that everyone had opinions on the developed deigns. Then in the lesson we designed the final designs for our group architecture projects together based off of the developed designs so that the collection would work cohesively and well together. I think that this process has worked well because all our designs work well together for example the asymmetrical lines or cutouts which will be shown even clearer with the matching fabrics and colours. 

In Pattern cutting this week to prepare for the deadline I made sure to print out all the pictures I need to feature in my bookwork and diary of making. I handed in my garment in this first lesson as I was happy with this being done after sewing the tags. In the next lesson I handed in my workbook for the deadline. To prepare for this I decided to slightly change the order of my pages so that the flow was cohesive and flow well. 9 tried to focus on my presentation in the newer pages of this book, for example adding lines to make the pages look more visually interesting which also link to my mood board. In this new section of the project, I want to continue working on my presentation and add colour paper around where I add annotations so that they're clear and add bolder titles so my pages are clear and obvious straight away. 

In our other pattern cutting lesson we had a talk by Lee Dawson from Samuel Brothers tailor which was interesting to learn what they handle in there day to day and how much everything costs. It was good to learn his opinion about CVs and how to put everything you're good on in the first paragraph and to never lie as if you're asked to do something and then you aren't confident in it then it doesn't look good on you. He said that a skill that is really important is hand sewing so I think that I shall try and use this skill more often so that this is something I can do quickly and neatly. This talk was good as it was good to get information on the industry and how to stand out a bit more in the industry and also get tips like how you should roll your tape measurers and how they can stretch. 

In Stretch this week I handed in my weave that I completed and then wrote up my analysis and plaque so that if my work is feature in the gallery the viewers can recognise what the purpose is and my global goal. 

In CAD we learnt about editorialistaion, which made sure think about how we can edit our look books that we will make so that only the best photographs are featured in our books. We started to think about the order of our look books and how we want our layout to be what was useful as when we put this into InDesign that process will be quicker in adding the photos. 

In Photography this week, we reviewed our fashion films that we had made and how we could improve and develop them. We received feedback to include more close up shots of the garments and snappier shots to keep interest while shooting the architectural shots. It was also suggested that we could create almost a loop, for example, start coming out of the bricks and then shoot the film an then end going back int the bricks. An positive comment was that the vibe and filter of the film matched the architecture and audio them.