Final Reflection - Petra

Progress Reflection - Petra

1. What is going well? What could go better?
Something that I think is going well is trying to work with others to create the best idea's that we can. I think something that could go better would be to try and create different and more creative design ideas so that we can get started on making the costumes as soon as possible.

2. What have you started? Completed? Next to do?
So far the things that we have started are the indepth planning and desinging of the costumes. Trying to figure out the different materials that we can use and trying to find ways to put them together to show and represent sustainability. Next we need to get more into the practical making of the costumes and start to put things together so that we get a finsihed product.

3. What questopns have you asked, answered, and now need to pursue?
Questions that I have asked have been more around how we can use resources the best possible way to create a good effect for people watching the final show and to show resourcefulness. I have talked to my peers, to Danielle, to my parents and then called some people outside of school to ask for their help in finding resources and creating cool and inspiring idea's. I now need to follow up with people to check on how things are going and get feedback for the different idea's that I have to then refine to make the idea's better.

How am I going? - Petra

I think that some of my weaknesses at the moment is once I have an idea in my head its hard to try ad think of something else. This has been showen with the idea of Alice and how we have been asked to change our design but I now can't think of anything that is too different form our original idea.

One of my strengths at the moment would be my ability to stay on task. Even though it is all very stressful I stay on task and keep working on what we are doing at the time. I belive that this is really important as it means that work gets done and we don't fall behind with what we are doing.

Week 1 - Term 4

This week we completed our planning doc and set some dates for when we want things finished.
Our costume ideas we havent finished yet as we have been told by the costumers that they would like the costume to represent a 7 year old girl.
Below is a plan of something that we would like to look further at in terms of costumes for Alice.

For our Mad Hatter idea we have yet to finalise our designs and are planning to get that finished next week so we can then go and find material to start to create the costumes.

Here is the planning doc:

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.

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.

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

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

Questions!!

As a goup of 3 we got together and started to create as many questions as we could. We thought about what we would need for the show and how we could achieve that. I believe that doing this helped us in seeing what we need to acheive by the end of the show and it made us see how much work we have to do in such a short amount of time.

Sustainability Brainstorming

In our groups we had to brainstorm how we thought we could use sustainability in the show and costumes. We looked at the 4 main area's, cultural, economic, enviromental and social. Below are our brainstorms.

Alice and Mad Hatter

Georgia and I were working on the costumes and concepts for Alice and Mad Hatter. We belive that we should step away from the stereotypical designs and be adventurous with our ideas. We are going to be documenting our idea's through pintrest and we have been brainstorming questions that will let us go deeper in our thinking around the characters personalities.

- Petra and Georgia T

Petra - Sustainability

Sustainability ...

Sustainability matters to me becuase we live in an amazing world yet it is being destroyed around us every day.
I want to make people see what we are doing and how much we are throwing out that is unnecessary all the time and all around us because I know that we can all do better.
My big project goal that I am working towards is having a go at something different this time rather than just performing and doing dances. I need to go more outside of my comfort zone and this is the first step for me to achieve that.
I will need support with extending myself and pushing myself.