Exhibition Space

I had a couple of ideas of what I wanted my exhibition space to look like.

Originally I just wanted to have my 2 dresses each on a mannequin and then have an A1 image of the dresses being worn. However I was informed that this would look too shop like, and also because the dresses are so similar, it wouldn't be effective to have them right next to each other on mannequins.

Another idea I had was to display one of the dresses against the wall and have one of them on a mannequin, accompanied by 4 A3 images, because I had edited 4 of my favourite photos from the photo shoot and I was struggling to choose between them.

However, after receiving my feedback, I decided it may look effective to display some of my samples from throughout the project. The display would also have a 20 by 30 inch image (I had to have it printed at ASDA rather than college, so the image wasn't quite as big). It also fills the space better, but still doesn't look cluttered. 

PhotoShop!

After the photo shoot, I went straight to the Mac Lab to start editting my photos.

I was so happy with my light trail photos that I wanted to include them in more than just my sketchbook, so I decided that I wanted some as the background of my final photographs.

However I am practically a photoshop virgin. So I had to ask for help on how to do it. But I was just basically creating layers and then using the lighten feature, so once I knew what I was doing, I just got going with it.

These are a couple examples of the photos I editted, however I want to do a couple more so that I have a few to pick from to be printed out for the exhibtion.

Health and Safety

While doing the photo shoot a couple of health and safety points had to be considered:

• that all cables from lights and other equipment weren't lying loose on the floor.
• the dresses are floor length, so they were held up while walking to avoid tripping.
• When ladders were used for capturing different angles, there was always someone holding the base of the ladder.
• There was no food or drinks.

Photo Shoot!

Right now we are doing the photo shoot for my final outcomes. Which is rather stressful, we spent the first 20 minutes trying to get the lighting right, which was very frustrating because when I went to book the photo studio, I was asked if I'd need it setting up, to which I said yes, and then after waiting 15 for it to be opened for us (15 into my studio time; which isn't fair), the lighting wasn't even right.

We did get it sorted eventaully. There was also problems with the dresses, because although I had measured how long the straps needed to be against the models, they were still too long, so they had to be fixed in place.

But overall, I was happy with the photos!

Spaghetti Straps

URGH!

The dresses need spaghetti strapes, but they are driving me mad!

The first one worked fine, then the second one was a little bit trickier. But then the cord I was using started to fray so I accidently sewed the fabric to the cord so it wouldn't pull through. Then on the next one the cord snapped as I was pulling it threw, and then I just lost it and got all upset.

I'm just gonna have to do it at a different point.

Panels and Godets

After talking to my tutors, we decided that the design for the skirt needed to be changed, so we spend the day working on a new constrcution idea.

Using panels and godets to create a more structure skirt, that still had a lot of skirt at the bottom so that it flows.

IT IS PRINTED!

Well I decided to just use the poly sateen that I'd been using for all of my samples. And my god, it took ages!

Each sheet of fabric took 6 hours to print, I could only get 2 screens done in an hour, my back hurt like hell afterwards!

I'm absolutely petrified to actually start making the skirt with my new printed fabric, what if it goes wrong?

Let's get started...final outcome

I still don't know what fabric to use, but I thought in the meantime that I would start deciding how I'm going to make my dresses.

I'm just worried the skirt looks a little messy.