Month: April 2020

LOCKDOWN UPDATE 3

Having to work at home for this project has given me many challenges to face, a three dimensional based project which has to be done collaboratively when we are lacking in resources and software and basically having to change our idea is what we have to be on board with. My laptop that I currently use is quite slow, being able to run google documents but crashes often. Being able to use software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or anything else on Adobe Cloud will be near impossible to run on my laptop due to storage and quality of my computer. 

 

Due to this I will be trialing making mood boards on both my computer but also trialing using editing applications on my phone, which works better than my laptop. I’ll see what is possible on my phone however I am aware it will be more time consuming.

 

Also limited resources in my university home has also been brought to my attention, I have some watercolours but I don’t have brushes, some soft pastels and oil pastels which I am not the most confident in using.

 

The beginnings of my sketchbook were made on Google Slides where I was going to print out my slides to use in a physical sketchbook before universities closed all of their libraries. Google Slides would most likely crash a few times while trying to compile a large document used for my sketchbook therefore I will, according to the advice on the emails teachers have sent out to us, be using my blog as my sketchbook for the future. 

 

As a result I have made sure that each of my blog posts are very more in depth, I’ve gone back through my blogs and I will feature research, notes, sketches and drawings, like I would with my sketchbook and have them detail the journey from the beginning which has been quite time consuming but will hopefully show the flow of the project

LOCKDOWN UPDATE 2

  1. My group and I have worked hard in order to support each other during the lockdown, we have delegated roles to each person in the group as we were not only lacking motivation but we were struggling to understand what steps we can do to progress our project with all these new factors taking into place.

 

Roles: (within the fashion communication part of the group)

  • One person is focusing on making the clips from the filming; someone with a bit of filming and editing experience who has software they can use at home and was happy to take on the role as they were doing this before
  • One person is making the PDF which we all share and will upload to Turnitin, featuring some illustrations
  • One person is focused on making the lookbook, collating the designers illustrators with their own to make a lookbook on InDesign that features all the designs

 

I will be making the website for everything to be placed on, out of all the tasks this one is one that I could do at home with the resources I have, and therefore why I thought it would be sensible to take on this role but this will definitely be a struggle as I have limited skills in website making, however, I see this as an opportunity to gain some more skills for this project that will help me thrive when I am either on placements or for personal use. Being able to navigate, design or put together a website is a highly requested skill for not only placements, but will prove useful when making my portfolio for my personal work.