Sketchbook

I have been working hard on my sketchbook for night circus to try and help the group come to a final design. We are all tackling some research in our own way then going to agree on a final design for the costume. We have decided to do Celia as our character and have all thought that it may be nice to have some sort of boning/caging structure to our design with a historical dress with contemporary aspects.
I'd like to work a on the contemporary side, as I find that is what I am most interested in, but of course happy to work on historical elements where needed. As a group we seem to all be on the same page so far, which is good. This week we'll be presenting our sketchbooks and initial designs and ideas so I'm working hard on them to get them finished.
I've noticed with my sketchbook that I need to note down where I get my images and research from straight away. I collect the research then always struggle in the last minute to find out where the evidence is from and the source. I've been trying to keep track of where I find my evidence as I go to try and avoid the struggle at the end of the project.

V&A

We were advised to visit the V&A and look at the theatre section for contextual studies this term. The costumes were incredible!

We checked out the historical fashion before leaving also, as we thought this could be beneficial to our night circus project and for researching the different costume throughout the eras. I collected some images and details to use within the night circus project for the 1800s. 

On reflection I should have taken more notes in the theatre area to use toward contextual as I took a lot of photos but didn't jot down the references to use for or presentation. 

The Night Circus

We were put into our groups yesterday for The Night Circus project. The groups were supposed to be made up of two designers and two interpreters. There are more designers in total and therefore I have ended up in a group with one and interpreter and the rest of us designers. We each need to take the lead role of research, design, cut or construct. Unfortunately I have ended up being left with cut which is not at all my strong point. I'm going to try and use this opportunity to just learn learn learn. There are sessions to help us with each aspect so I will use those sessions to help me out as much as possible.

I have been using today to work on the break down of the text. We have taken a part each to work on. I made a mistake of not writing enough notes as I went, (probably because I was enjoying the book too much) so now I've had to do a lot of re reading to get the detail I need for the timelines. This is something I need to work on with future assignments, if it comes to reading a script or book again to work from.