Ok, so up untill this meeting I have been researching researching researching! I was really keen to get as much research and as much information from band member James about what he wanted as possible; so did not mind spending such a bulky amount of time researching. The research I have been conducting has not only been secondary and elements of primary from discussing with James what he wanmted; I decided some more primary research would be very useful for informing the modern element of my designs for band member James' Jacket and shirt. Therefore, I studied a selection of tailored menswear jackets and shirts of interest to me due to style, shape, fabric at several middle end budget Smart, formal menswear stores! You can see my pictures and evaluations/ analysis attached!
From conducting this extensive research I feel I will not become disillusioned and repetitive when forming designs for James' garments. I equally feel there more research conducted, the more experimentation and development that can follow from producing designs. Equally, I have experienced in previous projects how extensive research can help solve any unpredicted design problems that could possibly arise when trialling or even throughout the making process! For example, if you find that your main fabric does not look the way you proposed it to with the fabric for the lapel.. you may have decorational research which you can draw from and add something to the two; which can then make the combination work again! There are many more examples I could give.. but I am sure I will face some along the way that I will be discussing or reporting to you; but hopefully I will be able to overcome them due to my research!
All in all I feel that my research is all valuable as it is all relevant to my design process and can be seen through my designs and other parts will be seen through developments and trials at a later stage!
However... I do now need to get going on some designs; as I do need to consider that once I have completed them, I need to email them to James to decided which ones/ one he likes the most. I realise if i do not consider my time schedule and allow time for james to email back this will effect my ability to go fabric shoipping and make decisions on ordering decorational features straight away!
keep watch... things are developing... beginning to get to more of the exciting stages!
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Sunday 21 March 2010
tutorial reflection 10/03/2010
Ok so basically u can see attached to this blog a mood board i created from my initial pictures I had found and took along to my tutorial to show the direction of the jacket for James!
We began the turoial refreshing (tutor) Graham about what we were doing and proposing to produce. This was useful as it allowed us as a group to check that we were all under the same understanding and clarify each of our intensions! We had decided we were all going to produce a 19th century style tailored jacket for each of our band members but the other item we could each deicide what we would prefer to make! I had been considering the heat of the staging and therefore was keen to create an interesting shirt for james as my second garment so that when he took his jacket off, he would have another interesting garment underneath. Equally through discussions with james about his style etc... he mentioned that the band generally wear smartish trousers/ black smart skinny jeans and therefore it would be nicer for him to have something that he didnt have; a stylish shirt for example! LOL
Shelly, charlotte and jen had decided that they wanted to make the trousers for their band members but did not see it a problem for me to make james a shirt instead!
Interestingly.. this then led the tutorials discussion to whether we were considering doing an end photoshoot for them once our garments had been finished and completed! This would then mean sourcing the extra items for them! I.e I would be sourcing james trousers to go with the trousers shelly, charlotte and jen had made, and they would be sourcing 19th century style shirts in keeping with the theme and the shirt i had made for james! Equally any other parts to our designs (i.e if they had waistcoats; they would source!)
The outcome of the discussion was that we all agreed this would be great finish to the project and displaying what we ahd made; in the context that it may be used! (for band photoshoot and performances) However some members of the group; considering their time schedules were worried about finishing in time to allow time for the photoshoot at the end! We all agreed that those of us that felt we could finish in time would include this on our learning agreements and it did not matter if this was not something we all produced for assessment as well as our garments!
Also discussed in the session was costs; budget and were the band going to pay for the costumes and then keep them to perform in or were we paying and keeping them or what our scheme would be for this!
-rgearding the budget we all decided £100 mark each was our aim as none of us could afford much more than this so soon after our last project! We would be working to this budget as closely as possible, but obviously the outcomes would vary for each of us!
- As a group we dicussed putting to the band the potential idea of renting them out to them for a small cost each time they wished to wear them for a performance or photoshoot until they had covered the costs in total that we were staisfied with and had agreed with them; and after this they could keep them!
We came up with this scheme based on the fact they are a relatively young band and asking them for a lump largish sum of money to pay for the costumes may be a little offputting to them; so this scheme of a little at a time be be more appealing to them!
The last thing we discussed was fabric! Key considerations such as colours and our chosen palette so that our costumes linked together, weight of fabric; considering they were performing in them and how much fabric we would each need!
Our discussed and chosen palette as a group is dark sooty colours; black, grey,d.silvers, coppers, navy, burgendy, d. reds.
The amount of fabric we decided should be adequate to cover the jackets (coats) would be: 4 metres
for James' shirt: 2 2/2 metres and the same for the trousers for the others!
Graham directed us to 2 books we could use for creating our basic blocks for our jackets:
'Tailor clothier and outfitter'
'The art of the tailor' By Robert Doyle; the patterns are fairly complex due to working in old pattern drafting terms!
We completed the meeting by deciding we would meet again as a group ont the 15/3/2010 for further discussions and developments in ideas and our directions and for discussing and problems, further ideas etc with each other.
We began the turoial refreshing (tutor) Graham about what we were doing and proposing to produce. This was useful as it allowed us as a group to check that we were all under the same understanding and clarify each of our intensions! We had decided we were all going to produce a 19th century style tailored jacket for each of our band members but the other item we could each deicide what we would prefer to make! I had been considering the heat of the staging and therefore was keen to create an interesting shirt for james as my second garment so that when he took his jacket off, he would have another interesting garment underneath. Equally through discussions with james about his style etc... he mentioned that the band generally wear smartish trousers/ black smart skinny jeans and therefore it would be nicer for him to have something that he didnt have; a stylish shirt for example! LOL
Shelly, charlotte and jen had decided that they wanted to make the trousers for their band members but did not see it a problem for me to make james a shirt instead!
Interestingly.. this then led the tutorials discussion to whether we were considering doing an end photoshoot for them once our garments had been finished and completed! This would then mean sourcing the extra items for them! I.e I would be sourcing james trousers to go with the trousers shelly, charlotte and jen had made, and they would be sourcing 19th century style shirts in keeping with the theme and the shirt i had made for james! Equally any other parts to our designs (i.e if they had waistcoats; they would source!)
The outcome of the discussion was that we all agreed this would be great finish to the project and displaying what we ahd made; in the context that it may be used! (for band photoshoot and performances) However some members of the group; considering their time schedules were worried about finishing in time to allow time for the photoshoot at the end! We all agreed that those of us that felt we could finish in time would include this on our learning agreements and it did not matter if this was not something we all produced for assessment as well as our garments!
Also discussed in the session was costs; budget and were the band going to pay for the costumes and then keep them to perform in or were we paying and keeping them or what our scheme would be for this!
-rgearding the budget we all decided £100 mark each was our aim as none of us could afford much more than this so soon after our last project! We would be working to this budget as closely as possible, but obviously the outcomes would vary for each of us!
- As a group we dicussed putting to the band the potential idea of renting them out to them for a small cost each time they wished to wear them for a performance or photoshoot until they had covered the costs in total that we were staisfied with and had agreed with them; and after this they could keep them!
We came up with this scheme based on the fact they are a relatively young band and asking them for a lump largish sum of money to pay for the costumes may be a little offputting to them; so this scheme of a little at a time be be more appealing to them!
The last thing we discussed was fabric! Key considerations such as colours and our chosen palette so that our costumes linked together, weight of fabric; considering they were performing in them and how much fabric we would each need!
Our discussed and chosen palette as a group is dark sooty colours; black, grey,d.silvers, coppers, navy, burgendy, d. reds.
The amount of fabric we decided should be adequate to cover the jackets (coats) would be: 4 metres
for James' shirt: 2 2/2 metres and the same for the trousers for the others!
Graham directed us to 2 books we could use for creating our basic blocks for our jackets:
'Tailor clothier and outfitter'
'The art of the tailor' By Robert Doyle; the patterns are fairly complex due to working in old pattern drafting terms!
We completed the meeting by deciding we would meet again as a group ont the 15/3/2010 for further discussions and developments in ideas and our directions and for discussing and problems, further ideas etc with each other.
Tutorial Reflections
So Tuesday 9th March 2010 we had a re focus meeting having just handed in my last project! This was really useful in refreshing me on the things I needed to consider whilst creating my make for this project such as tutorials, considering time management and if working in a group; considering the other people's time schedules in your group! This meeting was great in exciting me about the project as it reminded us that this was a self directed project so led and timetabled by us; as we will be doing maybe in industry after next year! I like idea of this as it is a self test of how much I have learnt from my first 2 years and can apply to this project through my own abilities! Therefore the First outcome of this meeting I decided was for me to form a time schedule for myself! Then as a group we would decide when we were having meetings (as needed) and i could schedule these in! Our first initial meeting would be our 1st tutorial with Graham, where we had decided as a group that before this we would all find images that we liked and could form a start of our research from and show the direction of our research for graham (tutor) to view and gain an understanding from.
You can view my schedule by clicking on the link below! This I knew would change but by forming a basic schedule I can feel i have plotted my time in order to be on track for completion for the deadline on the 17th May 2010!
You can view my schedule by clicking on the link below! This I knew would change but by forming a basic schedule I can feel i have plotted my time in order to be on track for completion for the deadline on the 17th May 2010!
tutorial reflection
Hey everyone! First blog... bit late but going to update you with the madness of the 1st 2 weeks approximately!
Firstly; I'll introduce you to what I am creating for this project! Basically I was invited to work on a project with 3 of my university costume friends; Shelly Calvert (The effective founder of the project; she's got all the contacts!!), Charlotte Cutcher and Jennifer Ridge. Our project is to create 19th Century inspired costumes for each of the 4 band members; The Rileys! (4 of them, 4 of us!!) Therefore, we will each be designing and making a costume for 1 band member each! This sounds very convenient and easy.. however for this project the key thing regarding the success of it will be how we link them in to each other. We all have our ideas and styles but if we were to just design away, then make them without regular discussions, meetings, conversations about our designs, shopping trips together and fittings together; a positive outcome would not be the result as we would end up with 4 individual costumes for them; therefore not considering and linking them as a band!
This is something that we all agreed when First discussing the potential idea of the project must be a key and primary consideration constantly and throughout!
So now I have introduced you to the project you can follow the progress over the next weeks and see the process we go through to ensure the above and the process we go through linking it to this industry. My blog will also be very reflective and will discuss developments, problems and what I feel works and didn't work about the project perhaps! Also, i will discuss how i feel at various points into the project, so you can gain a real inside insight into our project; so keep watch!
Sorry for rambling on the first post, but I promise that generally the posts will be generally exclusing a few, relatively short but informative!!
Firstly; I'll introduce you to what I am creating for this project! Basically I was invited to work on a project with 3 of my university costume friends; Shelly Calvert (The effective founder of the project; she's got all the contacts!!), Charlotte Cutcher and Jennifer Ridge. Our project is to create 19th Century inspired costumes for each of the 4 band members; The Rileys! (4 of them, 4 of us!!) Therefore, we will each be designing and making a costume for 1 band member each! This sounds very convenient and easy.. however for this project the key thing regarding the success of it will be how we link them in to each other. We all have our ideas and styles but if we were to just design away, then make them without regular discussions, meetings, conversations about our designs, shopping trips together and fittings together; a positive outcome would not be the result as we would end up with 4 individual costumes for them; therefore not considering and linking them as a band!
This is something that we all agreed when First discussing the potential idea of the project must be a key and primary consideration constantly and throughout!
So now I have introduced you to the project you can follow the progress over the next weeks and see the process we go through to ensure the above and the process we go through linking it to this industry. My blog will also be very reflective and will discuss developments, problems and what I feel works and didn't work about the project perhaps! Also, i will discuss how i feel at various points into the project, so you can gain a real inside insight into our project; so keep watch!
Sorry for rambling on the first post, but I promise that generally the posts will be generally exclusing a few, relatively short but informative!!
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