group discussion/ reflective group meeting!

This meeting was basically so that we could all discuss where we were up to with our designs and arranging a date we could or most of us could make for the fitting!
Both me and another group member were still at the designing stages but proposed to have the designs done within the next one or two days of this meeting! The other two girls had completed their designs and were at the stage of sending them off to their band members regarding which one they liked most, or deciding which one they would send to their band member as their proposed design! I had decided that as I was working on this project with my band member,and it had to be a very collaborative process in order to achieve providing what he wanted; I was going to send him all of my designs and he could tell me which he liked best, but also if there were any elements form the other that he wanted any to include within his selected one, or equally any elements he dislike and wanted changed or he felt would not be appropriate for performing! However, I don't think all of the girls i am working with did this necessarily, as we are all going about this project in our own ways in terms of our time schedules for when we do things and how we go about things, but have meetings such as the one above to discuss how things are going and new ideas etc to ensure that the costumes will tie in together! This does make me worry that we should be working more together. By this i mean, in terms of the way we are approaching the project and relating to our selected band members we are making for, but i guess we are still all adding our own touch of personality and creativity to our garments and process of making them and therefore if we were doing everything the same way all the time, we may be restricted in showing and creating this! In a similar way; the band members all have their own personalities and styles slightly so therefore i do not feel their costumes/ garments should necessarily be made from matching materials! As long as we make sure key elements tie all of the costumes together and keep this in mind throughout the process I feel they will be a success and will come together well! By having weekly meetings and discussions; I feel we are all on the same track in wanting to ensure things come together!
From this meeting we decided;
- me and the other one of the girls thsat hadn't done our designs would do them!

- the 2 others in the group would find their patterns and begin pattern drafting as they both had less time over easter as they would be on placement!

- colour pallete: black, grey, navy/dark blue

- the first fitting that suited the majority of us was 6th April (over easter) in the evening; this is providing the band were oall ok with this date too! Unfortunately one group member would not be able to make this fitting, but she suggested rather than rearranging one for her with all of us there, she would be happy for us to fit hers to her band member (who could make the fitting)!
I was not necessarily sure that I would be happy to have done this if I had of been in her situation, and made sure that she felt she could re-arrange it with us there to support her another time, but equally this fitting date was convienient for most of us and therefore without shortening the amount of time we would have to create our final garments ready for the 2nd fitting (the almost finished fitting!) this date was best! Also, we had to consider the band shedules and dates that all of most of the band members could do too! Therefore this date all the band could do and considering they had to consider their work schedules (outside of the band) this date suited most!
- the second fitting date which we all could make we decided would be 3/05/2010. We decided this at the same time so as the band had plenty of notice! This we all believed, would allow us 3 weeks after easter to get our garments made up form our top fabrics and the decoration completed!

I feel the meeting was a productive part of working as a team and it allowed us to discuss where we were all at, how we were planning to move forward and plan dates and key group schedule date and dates we aimed to have key things done by!

We ended this meeting on this note and would be meeting again for our arranged fabric shop to Hansons, to buy/ get an idea for our fabrics on thursday 25/03/2010!