Friday

Overall.

Overall i've really enjoyed the first semester. I've felt like my confidence has grown and i hope it'll continue to grow in the second semester.
I feel pleased with the work i've produced overall so i'm excited to see my grade I get, especially the Styling project. I am looking forward to work experience and I'm sure of what i want to go into now as a career and have started to apply for ones i'm interested in.

Wednesday

Photoshoot.

For our styling project we have to do a final photoshoot with our outfits customized.
The theme for my group is 'seven deadly sins'. We wanted to go for the forest gloomy feel. We asked the photographers Ewen and Holly if we were able to do our photoshoot outside, in a forest but unfortunately we had to do it indoors, so we decided to go and do our own photoshoot outdoors.
The reason we wanted to do our photos outdoors is because of the background of the seven sins.
The history is the sins were released from a box as animals.

Catherine in our group sorted out a photographer who would come take the photos and Keri-Ann sorted out the animal masks for the shoot.
We did the shoot at 10am so the sunlight was spot on, it was so cold.




I'm really pleased with the outcome of these photos.

For the studio photoshoot we will be using an projection onto the plain white background. Hopefully this would help with the forest effect we are looking for.

Tuesday

Print Talk.

Digitising.

We got talked through producing patterns on CAD CAM digitizing system. Fiona informed us that although it is a pattern cutting system, you still need to be able to know how to produce patterns on a table to be able to produce patterns digitally.

How to digitise.

Firstly you need to go to Start then go on Lectra --> digitizer 2.1C3 --> (serial port) com1 --> click ok --> click off the box --> start --> programs --> Lectra --> modaris (name of the digitizing system) --> config --> change to ico text.

Setting up the model...

Firstly you need to go to file --> new --> make the model name to what you are digitizing --> sheet --> new sheet -->F1 --> Digit ( 2 points for horizontal axis).

-Always have the top of your pattern facing the left.
-Always use masking tape so it does not spoil the bed. Blu tac and glue will damage the bed.

The control points you need to know to be able to produce the patterns are...

-Corner point is 2
-Curce is C
-Straight of grain is A
-Drill hole is 3
-Notch hole is 6

When you first start producing the pattern you need to put the straight of grain in first, then you need to start from the top left point and go around putting in notches as you come to them and finishing the darts which you will use the drill holes for. When you have finished you need to press FF and then 8 on the computer keyboard. You are then able to save the pattern and print it off if nessecery.

Fashion Issues

For our Fashion Issues module we had to choose an issue that we found in the industry, i chose to do the 'slutwalk' campaign that has been happening over the summer.
I'd knew abit about this before researching it but i found the more i researched into it the more interested i got into it.


I was inspired by some of the banners i researched.


I was inspired by some of the stories that i read from some of the women that walked the slutwalk and there own stories of getting abused really moved me.

I enjoyed doing this project, i found it really interesting. I really enjoyed doing the designs for t-shirts once i got into it and knew where i wanted to go with it.

Sunday

dress.

In this pattern cutting lesson we had to make a dress with abit of everything we'd done in the previous lesson, including pleats, the godet and drapes.
This is something i really struggled with and couldnt get the hang of it. I was okay doing the patterns but when it came to the manufacture side of that is when i started to struggle with it.
I wasnt overly happy with the resuly of my work i did for this, i found it hard but i did learn alot from doing this.

Thursday

Drapes.

This week in Manufacturing we made a top with a drape on. I enjoyed doing this, i found the pattern alright to do so i was able to keep up with the rest of the group.
When it came to manufacturing side of it I found it okay to make, i wasn't stressed out as I normally am with manufacturing. I was pleased with the outcome of this and overall surprisingly I enjoyed making this piece.