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.