Unit Five Brief / Dye Room

After a few days off after the hand in of unit 3 we started the new week with our brief for the next unit. The unit will run alongside unit 4 - contextual studies. It seems like the unit will be very full but a lot to look forward to including making a hobbit shirt and designing for the night circus. I want to aim to stay on top of work this unit as much as possible especially as there is two units running at once. We have our presentation for contextual studies tomorrow so I am prepping for that this evening. 

Our dye room induction was also today and so enjoyable! We printed on fabric using binder which I hadn’t done before as well as breaking down  the fabric which involved using various materials to distress the fabric.  We will be going this for the hobbit shirt so it was a good way to learn some techniques before hand.  Jess suggested we try to make them as accurate as possible so I was going to look into how garments are naturally distressed through time e.g worn knees, elbows etc. 

Final Countdown

It is the final couple of days before hand in and I feel like I am on top of some things and not so much others. I have a lot to add to my sketchbook! I am concerned that I haven't got enough research for the characters, but I have a couple of days so will keep adding over the weekend. My tech skills folder is almost complete as well as my COS folder which is great as this gives me more time to concentrate on my Tickly Tale project. Overall I've found this unit quite challenging but I feel that my improvement in some aspects such as sketchbook are huge. My last unit's sketchbook was lacking life and reference completely, so it has been nice to learn what it is that is wanted from a sketchbook and how we can accomplish that.

Peer Presentation

We presented our work to the second year interpreters today. They were very helpful in telling us what we needed in order to create a design that would then be made accurately by a maker. I was slightly nervous when leaving the talk with them as I felt that I didn't have enough time before hand in to improve and add to all the things that they had suggested. I have worked on it tonight and created a breakdown of the costumes to show how they could be created. I will continue to add to the parts they suggested over the weekend.

Tech Skills

We had our third tech skills session today and were focusing mainly on bias binding and piping. I am not overly familiar with either so I thought this session would be very useful for me. I've found that with the tech skills sessions I need to go straight home and work on them otherwise I forget the process. Overall I've found the tech skills sessions very rewarding and believe that the tech file will be something that I can use and refer back to for many years