COP Evaluation

Context of practice is basically to link the theory with the practical aspects of the course. Theory is based on lectures and seminars. We have to link these theories through our practical work which is produced in response to the brief.

Amongst a series of lectures we had, the ones interested me were;

Film

Photography

Avant-garde and kitsch

Graffiti

Modernism and post modernism.

The seminars in relation to these lectures were long winded and non productive. But the short essays we had to do were really helpful to understand the lectures that I have chosen for further research.

Research:

Core themes were introduced in the seminars. I chose fashion communication because the idea of communicating your individuality and concept through fashion in different ways is what this theme is about. I found the lectures relating to this theme interesting as well.

Whilst doing my research on these lectures I always linked architecture with these topics. For most of the modules my inspiration came from architecture. Architectural fashion is strong and it’s armour for the body to make it feel secure. A book called Shape shifters was a source which even enhanced my vision on this idea.       

Development:

Further research and development to link architecture, body, fashion and communicating it through a medium discussed in the lectures was my bottom line for this whole module at this point. 

The concept was created and I was not sure whether communicating it through photography or film. I realised it soon while going through ideas that to present my artefact I want something with movement. Photography would not have done justice to the concept itself.

I did a story board for the main concept of the film but tweaked few scenes while learning final cut. Final cut is a great software to use. The only problem i faced was that film is always shot landscape. I shot the second half in portrait. I found a solution to it to have multiple screen shots at once. Besides that i really enjoyed it.

I think that strong silhouettes give an edge to the body if worn as garments. It gives confidence and security. It feels free from the insecurities and imperfections. To show architectural silhouettes as garments I used card boards and created a shadow of the model dressing and undressing with those boards. As I did not had my actual garments to show which obviously would have been based on strong shapes.