So, when we started this project I was all excited for it, to start with. I would go away and do my research but never put oit straight into my sketchbook. I liked to know I had lots' of research so I'm doing it right.
So I started by looking at 'Mother Nature', the natural causes of disaster
I looked at everything from Earthquake's to Lightening, but looking at volcanoes' was what I liked researching the most. At this stage I still liked what I was doing and I was on track wkith everything.
After I researched some designers' that are relevant to the chosen topic. I loved researching Aitor Throup And Boris Bidjan as I love their style of work and how they think about their work. I feel more drawn to these designers' in my sketchbook compared to any of the others'.
Then I added in the images' og the work we produced at college in small groups' when working on the manaquinn. I felt that the lesson was worth while, because it gave us tat sense of creativity, but we still had to remember that it wasn't about making it look pretty first it had to be conventional first based on a disaster and how it will work together fit's into place
Then before I knew it, we had a holiday for 2 week's and when we would come back to college we had to have develpment page's and fabric sample's. I knew that I was basing mine of Volcanoes', in Italy. I based it around Pompeii. I loved how dangerous it was and how it worked. However, when I work I am alway's thinking of design's in my head and once I have one that I like the most that will be my final design and I would do this without develpment pages', because alot of the time it's the first design I think of. Then I had a lazy two week's because I already had my design sorted. We just had to start making the pattern's for it, I was making trouser's and a jacket as a before the Volcano would have erupted and I was creating a sculpture of what would be the deseased for after the Volcano erupted as everyone in my story die's.
And I knew what fabric I was using. I used a fabric that you line curtain's with because it is thick and plastic based. I was ahead when it came to making the garment's as I had all the pattern's for my garment's cut out, pinned to fabric and the fabric cut out also, including the lining. I had made my toil jacket including lining and one sleeve.
So I began to make my sculpture, and it was hard. Hard! Trying to get shaping right and measurment's to make it look more really like in the iamge's I had.
My sculpture was becoming a challenge I worried about whether I would finish it on time or not...
Then Emily suggested that I use a live sized full body manaquinn to wrap in the chicken wire and bend it into the shape. It was so much easier, then I also realised that I could get an old jacket and trouser's and stuff those with wire to make it easier for me and to speed up time as I only had 2 week's left and began to feel the pressure.
Then I had to cover the start of my sculpture in mode rock so that it looked cemented like those that were found in Pompeii 1500 years' after Mount Vesuvuis erupted.
However, when we started making our garments' I completely forgot about sketchbook as it only had research in there, no devolpment page's or nothing. So I had to work over time to put in the information that I had into my sketchbook.
I lost track of time on this project toward's the end when we were making out garmet's but it was a very interesting choice of topic. I prefered the topic more when we first got our briefs' whereas now, I can't stand it anymore. I've had enough.
Overall, it was good. It just through me off balance toward's the end because we had so much time to do this project that it seemed to drag on, then out of no where I was rushing to make garment's in about a week or two and they had to be beautifully constructed. This made the pressure to finish even worse than I thought it would have been. I also lost motivation in the project so toward's' the end as I found it hard to stay focused on completing my work on time. Also, when making the garment's I personally felt I would finish them and finish everything for a change, but when it got to sewing them I rememered they had to be made beautifully so making sure they were perfect slowed me down and I never got round to finishing any of it. I didn't want to carry on at home as I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't want to ruin what I already had.
