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.
