Assignment 1 – Industry Focused Project
This project expands on the skills, processes, planning, research and teamwork from the first semester and looks to add more professional practices to your workflow, communications and reflective outlook.
This assignment is intended to give an insight into a professional style brief that you may receive from a client in a design-based studio. You’ll need to consider pre-production, production and post-production in this assignment to complete the client brief.
This year we have teamed up with National Museums NI (NMNI). National Museum’s NI care for and present inspirational collections that reflect the creativity, innovation, history, culture and the people of Northern Ireland.
They look after 4 museums across the country – Ulster Museum, Ulster Folk Museum, Ulster Transport Museum & Ulster American Folk Park.
My Group;
- Anastasia Owens
- Hannah Gordon
- Rachel Martin
- Emma Shanks
- Marie-therese Philson
The initial idea
We chose the 1920s brief over the others offered as we were excited about the prospect of bringing the clothes to life.
I proposed an initial idea to the group of having the dresses as if they were ‘floating’, filling the requirement of bringing the collection to life. I also suggested we should do the dresses as if they are the characters, without heads or limbs as if they were being worn by someone. The group remembers are more comfortable with 3D asset modelling rather than character animation, so eliminating the need for human characters would take pressure off ourselves and we could focus more on scenery, clothing creating and more basic animations rather than facial expressions etc. Our idea is to have a main character dress arriving at a party in a 1920s style elevator, as they step out and join a large ballroom style area, where different dresses are dancing or drinking. The room decor will be inspired by movies such as The Great Gatsby and we will try to incorporate elements of the 1920s such as the Charleston dance, Art deco decor and various forms of entertainment.
The 1920s groups had a zoom meeting with Charlotte, the main curator of the fashion displays in the Ulster Museum, who sent us various images of dresses for us to be inspired by. She gave us great descriptions of how the material would have been used by then, such as glass beads being sewn onto dresses that would have increased the weight, and dresses of the era being highly inspired by Egyptian fashion.
