Thursday 9 December 2010

final costume photoshopped version

this is a photoshopped version of my final costume design i used the background to show a fairy environment that titania character would be in .
this would possibly image that could be shown to a director to get a feel for the character and gain a better understanding of the character.

schedule final

final budget

Tuesday 7 December 2010

more research





these are inspiration for what i would like for a photo shoot style when i can book a photographer. these are Vouge couture editorials that have an old style about them.
there camera lens and atmosphere is what i would like to re create when i have time to get a studio booked and a photographer who has done some previous shooting for me


Monday 6 December 2010

alterations on corset finished corset

this is the final corset image that was done. i made alterations to the waist tapering it to add more shape to my corset. i also added half moon padding to the breast pieces so that it would push them up and add more shape to the body.

i am very proud of the alterations as this did not take as long as i thought it would have been as i knew what i would be able to do.

i also collected many leaves today that made it possible for me to add to my crinoline the leaves would make it possible to cover my models top of legs

final fitting

this was for the dress rehearsal on friday 3rd of december i had managed to make my corset ready to try by the date that was initially said that we had to get this done for so we could have the rest of the week to finish up the last finishing touches.

my alterations that were discussed when talking to the teacher

the waist of my corset had to be taken in as it was to loose on my model.
the crinoline has to be moved down the body of my model with a extra panel of my fabric to be added to make this possible for it to be moved down the body.
more leaves and fabric manipulation on my crinoline
head piece to be made

Thursday 2 December 2010

drawing side view

drawing continued

busk complete


finally after many attempts to make it work as it had to be precise work for it to look good enough.

i had to make a facing then work out where the busk had to slip into so it would then be sown on top of this was tried many times to make sure that it was precise.

sophies hair





when designing sophies hair i wanted to make it longer than it was so hair extensions were bought for her in order to thicken up the hair and make it a different look on sophies hair style and more the look that i want to achieve.

Saturday 27 November 2010

weeks worth of work




its been a bit of a very fast week it was friday without even realising it..


here is what i have been ending up doing all week

*mainly unpicking as i want to make it perfect.
*finished me crinoline on tuesday
*facing and binding on my corset which had to be made perfect
*busk returned to vena cava as i bought the wrong one


Monday 22 November 2010

crinoline continued

I finally finished making the boning panels work and i finished the hem i just have to finish doing a placket and then attaching a waist band this task took a whole day which is longer than what i expected this would take as it was very tedious and i had to be precise

Head piece design



when looking at my past post on emma yeo i wanted to design a design that was like her silk and wood piece necklace. this idea of combining the materials really inspired me as i have used silk in my corset and my crinloine and would continue the theme of me using silk within my design.

i started comign up with the concept by taking the idea of using a flower design and making the petals just a thin outline i wanted to make a point of the design beign fragile like flowers are fragile but by some how combining them with the laser cut material which i still need to talk to a technition about which would be the best idea and transfer it onto the auto cad design so i can make it possible to use CAD and CAM to make my design possible


Sunday 21 November 2010

design drawings



these are my costume drawings figure one is my initial drawing



Saturday 20 November 2010

making my crinoline



this is my material being cut out and me showing how i have started to make this work and how i have created my design.

changes to the crinoline





when making my crinoline i had to make changes as the ridgeoline was not strong enough to hold the structure that i designed as it was moving to much and would not hold it correctly when i would add my material on to it.

after struggling to make the original structure work i decided to make it out of thin boning that was more weighted and held better when i made it, the way that i made the pattern was by putting the pieces of fabric onto it and using a tailors chalk to mark out where the boning was hanging that i had made 8 cm apart from each other being precise was essential to making this hang correctly.

the material that i used is semi transparent silk that was £8.99 a meter which is to be added to my budget list.
i made a toile of my pattern piece that i made for the crinoline to make sure that it worked so i had confidence in what i had made.

hat inspiration





Emma Yeo is a freelance designer in fashion accessories who uses wood and silk in this piece to make a necklace i want to take this idea and use auto cad to create a piece like this to reflect my overall concept of my design.

The photos above have other inspiration to my project the way that they are torn and ragged this is what i want to do for a head piece for my model.








Monday 15 November 2010

model pictures



making part 5

working on the crinoline has been a task, patience and precition have to be correct as when working on this today it has been a struggle to make sure that the crinoline is straight.

to do task for tommorrow

go to birmingham to collect more fabric
email vena cava as i have bought the wrong spoon busk for my corset it is not long enough


Sunday 14 November 2010

schedule

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a dark side to crinolines


this image when doing research i found to show a dark side to crinolines the way that it has shown the crinolines not on the normal place but it on the sleeves i found that tobe very interesting by doing it in a unconventional way. the way the photo-shoot is done is dark and this is what i think i would want my photo-shoot to be as when doing more in-depth research i found that most titania fairies where photo-shoot in a very pantomime way

looking at makeup for my photoshoot



i want to have makeup that would compliment my design i am looking at various versions of how makeup is done to see which one i think will be the best.

these i feel that i have looked at will be the sort of thing that i want to have on my models makeup. although i would want a more rustic feel to the way i want it to look





budget list so far