Week 7

This week I focussed on developing my work so I could start working towards my final product of the project in order to meet the deadline next week. The week started off quite slow for me because I felt stuck with the direction I wanted to take the project in, but after looking through my sketchbook, my ideas became clearer. But with my sketchbook I had quite a bit of work missing so throughout the week I worked to finishing off my work from the previous weeks whilst playing with ideas of what I wanted to create. When looking at my book I looked at my mood board and I went to one of the first pages which was a spider diagram that featured key words related to me that I had branched off of, I chose four words that related to me which were: Ruined, Trapped, Soft and Feminine. I then Created some fabric samples that I felt represented these emotions. I used different fabrics like silks, organza, PVC and cling film. Also after looking artists like Karla Black and Kyle Thompson and to reference my photo shoot in week one I smeared chalk onto the fabrics to see what affects I would get. After this I definitely knew that I want to use chalk in my final garment and I had decided upon a colour scheme which was to be pink because throughout the development of the whole project the two colours I have focussed on the most are dusty pink and a pale green and I felt that the dusty pink related to the feminine and soft aspect of my project.

Then after my sketchbook was up to date on the previous weeks work I started developing the work I had done, this included exploring my chosen words in more depth and trying to exaggerate the emotions. This then helped me to create a concept board that explored these ideas and summarised them.

Also this week, my group spent the day learning about creating a fashion film, I found this day to be interesting especially learning about how and why fashion films are created, we were also shown a few examples and then we needed to create our own concept and show this on a story board. I had made storyboards in the past and shot a music video which I found helped with this task, however the storyboards I had created were different to the one my group needed to make. I enjoyed making the storyboard and trying to show the concept through a series of stills.