Fashion&textiles. FINAL PIECE. Photographs of the garment

Contact sheets

Fashion&textiles. day 3. Process

I chose to make a feather skirt out of paper for my final garment and here are the steps that i did for the final outcome. 

fashion and textiles week. day 1

On the first day of fashion and textiles week we were asked to choose a starting point: structure, font or texture and initially produce 5 initial small samples. I chose Structure and texture, therefore my 5 samples are below. 

After the 5 samples we were asked to recreate one of our chosen sample 20 times and i chose to recreate this, however it was much harder and in my opinion unsuccessful because i had to enlarge it and had to use brown paper which came out very rough and ugly.

These are mine and my partners designs for which we used our enlarged samples, his was airplanes and mine rolls. However our task was to leave our samples by a sand and move on onto other peoples samples and create a design using their work to which we were also giving different briefs.


Therefore we were given someone else's stand with their work and had to create a look.
No brief,

The idea behind this was 3D, it had to pop, made as big as we could. 

Chosen part of a body piece; shoulder . 

 Unusual and crazy.


Simple, minimalist.

Storytelling/ Creating characters and stories

 Loads of crazy drawings of people from our memory, our created characters, dreams, favourite places, scariest place and loads of other ones that i cant even remember anymore.

 18 boxes then drawn on the drawings to create 3 different stories with beginning and ending.

Finished stories. 

LBM - create series of:

The aim for the second part of the day was to go out and to take pictures of; fall, crush, jump, echo, sad and happy. The pictures had to be taken at the right angle/ frame, as it had to earn its place. 

FALL 

Both  pictures were taken for the same idea of FALL, first one picture was taken of a fence from above to create an illusion of FALL, which i think came out pretty good. The second picture is more obvious of a brief, feet above as it is FALLING, the bright windows creating the illusion of a sky which makes the feet look like they are higher . 

CRUSH

 The first picture of CRUSH is a picture of a Coca Cola plastic bottle being Crushed and then edited on Photoshop to make it more interesting and dramatic, even though CRUSH is meant to come out as probably more of sad and angry colours, i have done the opposite by making it more colourful and bright to bring out the contrast and playfulness. 
However the second photograph i have taken is more deeper of a word CRUSH, not as obvious as the first picture. My representation of CRUSH is the cigarette being smoked, how it has wrinkled with every time the girl inhales the smoke as it is a movement of CRUSH.


JUMP

This time the idea of JUMP is simple and straightforward. However the main focus is the JUMP in the shadow instead of a person JUMPING.  Also the focus is on the feet and legs as those are caught in the moment.

ECHO

ECHO repetitive and endless.

SAD

The first photograph was taken at Ravensbourne university and as all of its windows are circle, it created the perfect shadow for this picture. SAD in this picture is created by the feeling of loneliness and depression, as it is such a dark picture and the idea of there only being one person in it and not being able to see the face or body also creates mystery.

The second photograph is a complete contrast to the first photograph as the colours are so different but still represent SADNESS. The main colours in the photograph are blue and green, colours that are thought of being used for SAD whenever a picture is drawn or photographed. Loads of contrast used to make it more expressive and stand out.

Last photograph is taken and focused of a manikin surrounded by others and having loads of needles in it representing being hurt and excluded from majority.  

 HAPPY

A cheeky little smile on my friend's face representing HAPPINESS, very simple and plain. I like the fact that it is such a close up as it creates more questions and mystery to the photograph.

Lens based media - day 1. Deconstruction of the photographic image

Day 1 : Working from a single image that you have chosen, we were asked to redraw it onto an A1 sheet. We were then asked to crop the image and rework the image considering how meaning and interpretation can change.
The power of the lens
Breaking the frame, life exists outside the frame!
Captures a moment in time 
How do you take a picture so the audience would want to engage.?
Make sense, WHY?
Passion

I chose a picture of my good friend to draw because i like happy people and when i take pictures i try to get out people's real, natural emotions. Even though this picture is posed it still looks natural and effortless. 

My pencil drawing of a friend . 

Contact sheet of all the different cut outs i have done by looking at all the unusual angles and how they change the mood of the picture.