Week Twenty Seven

Week Twenty Seven 

Over the weekend I made the trousers toile, finishing pleating for the side of the leg. I decided to only put the pleats on one side of the toile so that I wasn't wasting time as I was confident in this. When making the toile for the trousers I had to redo them a few times. When sewing the two legs together I was at first confident that I put them the correct way together but when looking at it after I had sewn them I had accidently sewn front of the trousers to the back so there was two holes with no way of being able to get into them as of the crotch seam. After I tried again and ended up with one leg inside out and the other the right way around. So after unpicking them I had tried again and I managed to do it right this time, unfortunately the blog I looked at to help with right the blog was worded a bit incorrect with which pieces should be in/on the other leg which lead me to sew the legs in different sides earlier.

This week I made my top toile which went well as I managed to sew it in one lesson. I made piping to put in the seam, as I think it will work will to contrast the top and work to link the colours and garments together as a group as we will all have features of this blue bias binding. I made the pattern for the facing and the sewd this on. For this I used the burrito method as the opening is the side seam. Doing this has helped me to developed this skill as I needed minimal help from notes to do this which is improvement from last time. 

I received the hood sample from a member of my group so I managed to see how this looked against the top and think of ways on how to attach it to the top. Some of the ways to attach it we considered was sewing it straight onto the top, hooks/eyes, poppers, zips. We ultimately decided to use an open ended zip so they hood can be completely detachably and to use a slightly contrasting colour so that this will be made more of  a feature. 

I pinned the hood to the top of the mannequin with the 'collar' and was happy with how it turned out and how it all stood out. I think to develop the collar I could add the wire into the bias binding channel at the top so that it keeps the shape better.

We also completed our costing/ layplan for all of our pattern pieces so that  I can go any buy all of our fabrics. We decided that each other colour of fabric would have its own layplan so we know how much fabric we need of each colour. 

After college we completed our fashion film in Waverley Abbey. We made sure to keep the comments from our fashion film take test in mind to help improve our fashion film the most it can be. We developed it by including more close up shots of our garments and making some of the clips more snappy. This process went well as we all agreed on the shots we wanted and all gave ideas on what to do and how to pose.

In Photography this week I worked on my Photographing zine and also did a photoshoot based on the connation's of inflate. Firstly, I decided to use the balloons to represent other parts of a persons body, for example, putting it Infront of their face. After doing this I thought about experimenting with shutter speed to create different lines. I like the way this worked and how it made the photos look blurry whilst still being in focus. I also like the way that the red background works well and slightly contrast the grey balloons and white jumper.  

In Stretch this week, I continued the project, Step by Step, using the artists I found last week to research into them to further help inform my task and designing. It helped me to think of design ideas as I took the work from the artist I knew I liked and then found more similar works. After doing this I created work inspired by the artist so that I could think about how this would look on a wall as a mural. I used oil pastels to do this as I thought this would be the best way to create bold and bright colors as they are pigmented. 

In CAD this week I experimented with front page layouts and where I could feature my text and the hierarchy within this, for example most important is the title. This was useful as it will help me to make my look book more proper and laid out correctly. I also experimented with type faces to see which I fell would suit my title and lookbook. We learnt about different websites in which you could access more typefaces for free and download them which was good as now I have a wider range of these to make sure they suit my lookbooks style well.