Evaluation

In conclusion, I feel that I have succeeded with the outline of my proposal. I have strived to experiment with different techniques and ideas that reflect my initial ideas. The idea of Thailand and architecture originated from when I travelled to Thailand last year and had the privilege of visiting inspiring and exciting places such as temples in Bangkok, which I had documented in photographs that helped me fuse ideas of drawing and print designs. I combined my work with architecture as I felt my intentions project was unfinished and I wanted to carry on the idea of using buildings as a template for my vibrant bold designs. I took photographs of architecture and nature around Manchester and developed my work with drawings to stimulate a source of primary research. To document my drawings, I constructed two films showing the creation of my visual work. Combining my drawings of Manchester and Thailand did not initiate until the digital process of my work was underway. I used the Photoshop page as a blank canvas and was able to blend both ideas of design into a developing process to create work that will complement the idea of using Manchester and Thailand. By doing this, I felt that I managed to create abstract unique designs that reflected my primary research and my reference colours.

For my live project, Bradford Textiles, I feel I could have spent more time developing my designs and research into the idea of Thai  print. I tried my very best with the limited amount of time I had to work on my designs. As I have explained in my blog, I used some of my work from my personal project, such as my Thai inspired  drawings and created a collection of more Thai drawings to channel into my work. My inspirations and audience are the same as my personal project and this final design is represented for high fashion. Out of all of my test samples, I have chosen this as my final design as I feel it represents my initial research and primary ideas in my work.

I have distinguished that this work provides a high fashion market as I tried to construct refined designs that have a complex structure. The characteristics of my designs exude a fine art, pattern to my work. With my Manchester primary research, I have tried to fabricate designs that are diametrically different from my primary research. I have accomplished this by creating bold edgy concepts of shape and colour in my work and to offer a high fashion quality to my designs. Fashion, print and film fashion designers such as Nicolas Jebran, Marykatrantzou, Nick Knight and Mark Mawson are four of my main inspirations as I have reflected their visually striking and unique concepts of work and try to channel it through my designs and fashion film. My main reason in constructing my designs is to instil a vibrant, outlandish and exciting theme to my work that is inspired by qualities such as the 60s, David Bowie and Andy Warhol. These three concepts have been my source of consistent inspiration to develop an intoxicating, expressive objective to my work. I feel that my work is for an upmarket clientele with individual aspirations on clothes design that counteract a statement and revolution like quality. The print designs will be best suited for fashion films as I have displayed in my work and high fashion catwalk clothes, such as elaborate dresses that correlate with Nicolas Jebran.

I feel that I have reflected my proposal. The construction of making a fashion film was a process of practice by creating a test film. The test fashion film gave me an insight and practice into creating a refined quality of work. I have successfully crafted a collection of six final print designs. I chose to keep my print designs as a minimum to six as the time planning for both filming and editing can be particularly lengthy.

In conclusion, I made a fashion inspired fashion film, which consisted of a collaboration with my print designs projected onto a model layered with ink dripping in water and including my reference colours. This film was aimed to construct how my print designs will appear on garments. I chose to create an animation-like quality to my print designs as the projection moved across the model's body to show how the shapes of my print designs can construct different ideas of observation across the white garment. The model created elegant movements with her body representing the soft but dominating like structures of my print designs. I chose the song Stella Marris by Moby for its atmospheric quality. The sound and rhythm of the music also complemented the model's movements and my print designs. I chose to do a film to show how my prints can come to life, instead of having a static like structure to my designs. This music in the film was to create a dramatic, almost therapeutic atmosphere. It is also highlighted in my blog that all the music incorporated is royalty free and selected from Moby’s website. The inspiration for my final film was from a variety of films from ShowStudio, which is a company that advertises fashion, print and art. This is what I have tried to demonstrate in my film.

This experience of creating two projects simultaneously has been a challenge but I feel it has offered a great insight into what it may be like working in the print fashion industry and how timekeeping to deadlines is so important in this field of work. I have tried to reflect on my proposal and evaluate my creative process throughout these two projects. The challenges I have experienced have motivated me to sculpture my projects into the best refined like quality I can achieve. If I was to change any aspect of my projects, I would spend more time on my live project by digitally printing my designs onto fabric give the impression of what they would look like on garments. For future projects, I want to expand my ideas of film and work with projection in the outside environment instead of in a studio room. This would be a great challenge due to certain variables being less easy to control and monitor. However, I would relish the challenge  to take a risk in constructing something very different and to tackle more difficult concepts of filming.