CHANGING IDEAS
Realising that not only another group were doing a green screen like us, but the fact that it was brought to our attention that work looks really similar to a different students work really put a pressure on us and gave us an urgency to change around our idea so that it doesn’t just fall into the same category as other people’s we wanted our idea to stand out. It needed to stand out especially at the exhibition space which is what we were struggling with by just showing a video or adding something else to it.
Therefore we were pressured into meeting up and seeing what we could do, brainstorming and adapting our ideas to the thought of creating an interactive questionnaire to the public to define their personality within one of the characters we’ve created to reflect the garment. This will be expanding on our themes of identity and covering up/ creating a character for ourselves. This will end up with the viewing of a few short films, one for each character of them interacting with the green screen space. This was also talked about in a different way through using pods. You go into the pod of the decided character and interact with the outfit on a mirro. As good as this idea sounded, I did doubt it would be hard to execute at an exhibition especially regarding space however we could also think about this in more depth until we come up with a solid plan as we have moved back a step in this project. We had to pick on two big themes to showcase so we thought of using body shapes as one, as each designer’s silhouette plays a big part in the identity of the garment. Ultra glam elements, aging, teenagers, grannys, over consumption and personas. We should be experimenting with a code to give you a link to the film as we could showcase them on a website for easy viewing. We wanted the house to be each designer’s safe space so getting more abstract stuff on the walls such as spoons for Ellie’s character and pots and pans for Sophie’s character.
We might physically make these characters using dolls and have small versions of the garment however I did feel as if this idea might be more difficult than we realise. This could be down to the fact making small clothes will be more time consuming, detailed and fiddly. Also raises the dilemmas of what type of doll we are going to use, are these characters interacting with the dolls and if they are what’s the point in having them etc.
