Week 10 Reflection

Week 10 Reflection

This week we created other ideas about how we could make the costumes look like and how we could make the ideas that we had different. We also had a chance to look in the costume room to see what kind of costumes that they have in there and to see if we could use some of them into our costumes.

I had a look at the card dance for the show. We found out that someone has to make 21 card costumes out of nothing.

Hannah Week 10

This week, we finalised our designs for the costumes. We then did a variety of different tasks to refine them and push ourselves to be more sustainable with the costumes. My group are in charge of the Caterpiller, Cheshire Cat, Frog footmen and Fish footmen costumes. I however, am focusing on doing the caterpiller costume. This is a design I came up with:

To refine it, Danielle gave each of the groups a sheet called SCAMPER. This stands for:

• Substitute
• Combine
• Adapt
• Modify
• Put to another use
• Eliminate
• Reverse

We had to change our design seven times. One different design for each of the ideas. Here are my ideas:

After doing this activity, I feel very confident about my idea and I am excited to get started creating it.

Week 10- final design ideas Danica

NATALIE - WEEK 10

This week we have been refining our ideas. I have made a final decision as to what I would like but I have not yet talked to the people playing the character's I am doing the costume's for.

this is one of my ideas

I am really not good at drawing but I just wrote on the sign so you can understand what I drew .

Thanks for reading this week!

Natalie

Costume designs for the queen, knave, king, and cards

Today we were refining our costume ideas for the queen of hearts, king of hearts, knave and all of the cards. We had loads of different ideas but they have all been put into one costume. Here are the sketches:

Petra and Gerogia Week 10

This week we were creating a final draft to do some more work on and refine further. We worked on some ideas for Alice and the Mad Hatter which I think went really well today and we put together some more creative and intresting concepts.

Alice - we need to try and move away from the blue and white innocent girl and make her more interesting and different.

Mad Hatter - we need to think of a boy and try to adapt our ideas to suit the new character we have been given.

Week 10 - Costumes

This week, I have adapted, modified and substituted my sketch idea to make my costumes more sustainable in our community.
I am specifically focusing on the characters Mock Turtle and Gryphon but as a group we are also doing the Door mouse and mouse.
Making our ideas more sustainable and efficient overall.

 

SARAH - WEEK 10

Hey everyone,

This week in big project I have been finalizing my drawings of my costumes. I am creating costumes for Tweedle - Dum and Tweedle - Dee, my idea is that they are hippy's so they are going to be wearing, beanie with their name on eg. Dum or Dee, Flower chain, Dreadlocks, Flax skirt, and an All Blacks jersey. This is showing New Zealand because of the flax skirts and the All Black's tops.

Mouse and dormouse designs

Reflection- we have been finishing off the designs of the costumes and creating a final draft for the alice in wonderland production. We have looked inside the costume room for different things that we could use/add to the costumes and refined our designs to make them better.

Dormouse design 

Draft

Mouse design

Draft

Draft

16/09 reflection

Hey everyone,

This weeks big project has been really fun. So far I have improved my drawing skills. At first they were really bad and were holding me back from what I could do. Next week I am going to finalize my finished design. Next week I will concentrate more and ask for help.

Hannah

This week, I have learnt how to be creative and come up with innovative sketches. I have been finding this very hard because we have to revolve the ideas around the concept of sustainability. This creates a harder task when it comes to creating the costumes. For example, instead of sewing together a lot of circles to make the ned of a caterpiller, you can use old chinese paper lanturns and paint over them or something. I have learnt how to be resourceful and creative.

I think I did a good job at grasping the concept of making the costumes sustainable. I believe that I was really thinking about using any resources I can to make a successful costume. An example of this is how I used umbrellas to make a costume for a caterpiller. I think this was very creative because most people do not use umbrellas in a costume for a caterpiller.
I think I need to improve on not overthinking the whole design process. I think that I was overthinking the whole thing because I was trying to be as sustaiable as I could and that I was thinking too hard about sustainability and not enough about actually designing costumes.

Next week I am hoping to start physically making the costumes or at least starting to get resources together.

Cadence Barrack

What have I learnt so far?
I have learnt to think outside the box and every idea, even if its bad should be put down and brainstormed just in case it could lead to other ideas. Planning first helps give you a general view of what you need to do and helps when finalising ideas. I have extended my habits of Resilience and Adventurous especially when designing characters costumes that aren't the mains. I have had to be Resilient and Creative when coming up with sustainable costume ideas and not just the normal materials.

What has gone well?
I think that my creative sketch's have gone well and starting to brainstorm ideas including sustainability has also gone well. Coming up with questions and brainstorming all ideas no matter what their worth also went really well. I have successfully come up with at least two sustainable ideas for the Mock turtle and the Gryphon. I have been co operating with my team members well too.

Not so well?
Having a really clear time management structure for all sessions but apart from that everything is going well.

Next week?
I am hoping to get all my sketch's done and start designing and finalizing ideas.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

16/09 Reflection

16/09 Reflection 

What you have learnt so far?

I have learnt that it is hard to try to design a dress that you could make out of sustainable items.

What has gone well? Not well? Strengths/weakness

What has gone well for me this week was getting my idea for the white queen's costume and seeing what costumes are in the costume room. The thing that didn't go well for me was that I didn't know what I was supposed to do because I wasn't here last week.

What is on your todo list for next week?

My todo list for next week is 

- to finish my sketches 

- to talk to my group on our ideas about the costumes 

What will you differently next week?

Ask people what to do and have an idea on what I would like for the costumes.

Reflection

I have learnt many things so far including what sustainability is, how to use sustainability when coming up with costume ideas and even different things about art. I think that making up costume ideas that involve sustainability has been quite challenging for me but I think That I have been improving. On my to do list for next week would be, because I have already come up with some ideas for costumes, to find out ways make it more sustainable. What I'll do differently next time would be try to be more creative with the designing of the costumes.

Reflection Week 9-

Today in Big Projects we finished our preliminary sketches of the Queen,King and Knave of Hearts and the 2,5,7 of spades. I think that this went well because we were able to design all of the characters and reflect on what we designed with our group members.

To Do-
Add to the drawings
find materials for the costumes.

16/09 reflection

Hey everyone,

This week in big projects we have been designing costumes for our chosen characters. I am designing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum costumes. We looked at the costumes that the school already has to give us some more ideas on designing the costumes. Next week I'm going to finalise my drawings/designs and look to start making them and trying them on the actresses/actors. 

Reflection Week 9

✌Reflection

Today for big projects we were finishing off our sketches of costumes. What went well for me today is finishing my sketches on time. One thing that didn't go so well today is incorporating Maori designs some of my accessories for my character, but at the end I figured it out.

To do List For Next Week:

•  Finding out who's costume sketches will be our final plan for our characters
• Finding out specific colors for the costumes

Evidence:

What has gone well?
We've almost finished our sketches and designs.

What hasn't?
We weren't able to find the planning document and as Danielle is away this week, we couldn't complete it.

What is on the list to do next week?
Complete our planning document.

What will I do differently next week?
Danielle will be back, so I won't need to wait if I can't access a document.

Reflection Week 9 - Georgia T

Today Petra wasnt here so I had to most things by myself. Somethings were a bit challenging because I didnt know if Petra would like any of the new ideas I came up with so I didnt really have any input from others. I learnt that its harder to work by myself especially when I most rely on Petra to help me stay on task. Next week we just need to refine our sketches a little more and plan out what materials we are going to use and what colours would be best to use as we dont want people getting confused if she is Alice or not. Next week I think I will stay on task a little more because sometimes today I wasnt paying attention but then I would get back to work then get distracted again then do work and so on. I didnt really do much sketches today but I did pin more things on to our pintrest page for Alice and mad hatter but I didnt really come up with some really good ideas.

Week 2 and 3 Reflection

In the last few weeks we have been doing a lot of brainstorming around sustainability. There have been a variety of different brainstorms:

• How we can use sustainability in this project
• Any questions we want to know
• What Cultural, Enviroumental, Social, Economic sustainability is

These are some photos for evidence of my work:

I feel like I have learnt a lot about sustainability and how to use it in a costume context. 

The thing that I found most difficult was trying to define what cultural sustaibability was. I knew what the word cultural meant and what sustainability meant but I found it hard to combine them and come up with a definition.

I am really looking forward to starting to design the costumes and get some great ideas together.

Reflection

                                  

                       ✌Sustainability Reflection 

Today for Big Project we brainstorm how we could incorporate sustainability in our costumes. We focused on  4 parts for our brainstorm, Environmental, Social, Cultural and Economic. In groups we then needed to write 5 big questions that relates to sustainability for our big project.

Evidence:
Sustainability BIG Question:
 
Social:

Auckland Art Gallery Notes

These are the notes that I took whilst we were being taked to about the Auckland Art Gallery. I think that now we know that we need to try and express our ideas through the costumes and through the way that we plan and document all our ideas.

Purpose: To be a creative catalyst for art and idea’s, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich our communities.

What is the Auckland Art Gallery?

• established in 1888
• used to be shared with the library
• 35 exhibition spaces
• includes auditorium, studio, research library, members lounge & cafe

• 16,000 artworks around 800 at a time
• 11th century oldest artwork
• different types of collections

• the artwork belongs to the people of Auckland not the art gallery
• a lot of people look after the artwork and decide what is shown on display
• there is not just paintings in the art gallery but sculptures aswell.

Sustainibility

Sustainability matters to me because..

We are finding ways to look after our nature without buying a lot of new items and using a lot of electricity etc. 

I want to change... 

The way we use items like how we don't always re use items and we just chuck them,

Because..

It doesn't help the nature around us. 

My big projects goal I am working towards is...

To get all my work finished.

Auckland Art Gallery notes - Cadence

Notes:

What is the Auckland Art Gallery? -

• Established in 1888

• Located in the centre of town, next to Albert park
• 35 Exhibition spaces with over 4 levels
• Included is an Auditorium, Studio, Members lounge & Cafe

Part 2 -

• NZ’s most extensive collection of NZ & International art

• Collection & loan collection includes over 16,000 artworks
• Artworks from many ages - Range
• All artworks are from the collection of Auckland people.

Purpose: To be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich our communities.

• Everyday materials are being used by Judy Darragh

• Artworks that are more targeted at children, artworks that are able to be touched.

Reflection

Today we were brainstorming about random and crazy ideas we could link sustainability with our designs and costumes. Our group (Petra, Cody, and me) came up with a lot of ideas most of them involving either bubbles or glow sticks or something glow in that dark. We have already decided what we wanted Alice to look like but we havent really decided what we wanted the Mad Hatter to look like because there is so many different things. We learnt that 'Wonderland' was going to be placed in New Zealand so we have to add so Maori patterns and designs into our costumes mostly the Red Queens and stuff. Not all of our ideas were realistic for Alice but some of them were do able.

In class we were brainstorming on ideas on the school show. Not all of the ideas we came up with in our groups were realistic but we also came up with really different ideas and crazy ideas. We also thought about ways we can show sustainability through the show and the costume ideas we had. We thought of Incorporating New Zealand in it and showing a certain theme. Me Geo and Petra also came up with some weird ideas realistic and crazy. one of them was to have bubbles coming out of the dress and the other one was to have bubbles coming out of the dress and things like that.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming

How Do We Make The Idea of Sustainability more Visible in our Community?

📝How Do We Make The Idea of Sustainability more                    Visible in our Community?

In groups we needed to brainstorm different ways we could make sustainability more visible in our community for our costumes, no matter how crazy or how unbelievable the idea was.

Evidence Of Our Brainstorm 🔎
My group members: Sarah, Hannah and me (Maariyah) 

Auckland Art Gallery notes

A building

Since 1888

The art gallery and library were together.

Kauri roof reflect tree light structures

35 exhibition spaces

Art studio used for school and community lounge

Over 16,000 artworks

11 century to the present

people:

conservators

registrar

designers and technicians

social media content, advertising

An idea:

Purpose creative catalyst for art and ideas.

Choose to display, people can relate to, inspiring

Experiences

Active way

Reuse and found materials

Reflect on what's going on - festival, events, celebrations

Investigate what  materials and pigments, treatments and ways to clean but not ruin the artwork.

research library

            👋Bye Thanks For Reading

Crazy ideas

This week in the groups that we are working in for the final costumes we had to try and create the craziest idea's that we could for our costumes. I found it hard to come up with idea's when we allready have idea's about what our finial product can look like but it was good to try something new. Here are our ideas