Vicky Hipwell

Welcome to my Blog, i will be writing about my Self Directed Project at Art University College Bournemouth. I am studying BA (Hons) Costume with Performance Design in the second year.
Showing posts with label SDP 001 Planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SDP 001 Planning. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 May 2010

Notes

Note Books:

I have been taking notes down in two different note books. This hasn't helped my planning and organisation. I will make sure i will have a fresh note book for any future projects in year three and in the industry.
I needed to find some notes i had taken in the beginning, i couldn't find my note book as i hadn't used it in a while, so i had it took time up that wasn't necessary.

Saturday, 17 April 2010

Learning Outcomes for SDP

Planning-What am i doing for SDP, and what do i want to achieve from my project?

In this unit I will be exploring and developing my skills in a new area of costume construction. I will be working along side a group to produce a collection of ballet tutus for clients from Arts Ed. The costumes will be used in their ballet end of year show next year. I will apply the technical experience that I have achieved through previous briefs and continue to develop my self learning. I will practice draping on the stand, altering the tutu and learn about the ballet costume silhouette. During the course of this unit I aim to achieve a deeper understanding of costumes in performance. This will be accomplished through learning how a ballet costume is constructed through workshops alongside research on how the ballet was first recognised to how we see and interpret it today.

I have chosen to construct a ballet tutu for my Self Directed Project because I have never challenged myself to this extent before. I have never constructed anything for dance, and I believe it is a completely new skill to learn from a non specified costume construction .It will also help me in future job prospects. I also believe that this is the only opportunity I will have to be taught how to make a ballet costume in university as I am very interested in making costumes for dance shows. I am excited that ballet will be my first learning opportunity. It will be a great place to start having a complex costume construction to learn and it will hopefully help me in understanding further areas of dance costume construction.

Leaning to construct a ballet tutu will help my self learning as I won’t have workshops throughout the construction I will be having a workshop for what needs to be constructed before the next workshop, just as the industry would work.
I feel this unit will push me and improve my technical skills. I do believe this project will make me work much better from notes as previously I have been going ahead without reading the workshop notes. To achieve a level of self learning I will have to make detailed notes to refer back to and individually problem solve which I feel I do need to work on. I believe I am good at time management, and I quite enjoy organising the time I have productively.

I plan to produce my research through my blog and a file. This will include the history of ballet, and how it has formed from what used to be, to what we know today. I will also be looking into how the ballet costumes developed with the development of the art of the ballet.

I will be evaluating areas of construction throughout the workshops’ on my blog referencing to final completed photos for personal development.

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Blog Include

For SDP you must include the following tags:

Planning – establishing ideas and how it fulfils aspirations
Evaluation and Reflection – final evaluation, reflections on tutorial feedback and a midway reflection point.

Your blog could also include tags for the following (depending on the type of project you’ve taken on):

Research Ideas
Development Ideas
Experiments
Fittings
Production meetings
Tutorial Reflections