At 8.45, on Monday morning, we begun our journey as fashion foundation students at Ravensbourne. To make us feel more welcome, as well as to get to know those we would be spending the rest of the year with, our tutor organised an ice breaker game, which involved us asking one another some fairly personal questions, but luckily everyone was willing to give one hundred percent and we all had the opportunity to talk to people we had not spoken to yet. After that, it was time to start working! We had all been asked to bring two photos in. These photos could mean something to us, or nothing at all, could be an image or quote, but could not be everything or anyone well known. Once everyone stuck their images to the wall, we then had to pick one, but it could not be our own. From this image we created a mind-map based on that image, surrounding it with words, places, phrases and questions. We were then asked to pick a second image. But this image had to be completely opposite to the first image we picked. And so the process started again. We were then told these two images would be the starting point of our first project.
I was really looking forward to Wednesday , since we had an organised visit to the V&A. This visit was to provide us with possible research for our project. We all had to pay a visit to the 'What Is Luxury?' exhibition, which explores the ideas of luxury today and addresses how luxury is made and understood. Once we had since the exhibition we were given time to explore the rest of the V&A. This benefited my project greatly, since I would like to look at and focus on patterns in nature, and there were a number of displays that presented patterns, details and designs in nature, so I was able to take a lot of pictures which I could then use in my sketchbook.
On Thursday, only a hand full of us took part in a life drawing class. Despite accidentally not booking a model for the class we made the most of the day, taking it in turns one by one to model for everyone, choosing a variety of poses and media to conduct our drawings. A life drawing session was definitely helpful for this course, considering we are fashion students we have to take into account peoples bodies, the variety of shapes and sizes, the way people move and therefore the best way clothes will fit them.
Friday was used to create concept boards. We were given the morning to collect as many images as we needed and wanted, to then present on a concept board. We were informed concept boards are a page that tell the designers story. Fashion Designers mainly use a variety of photographs to get inspired to work on every line of new collection. Anything that sparks the designer's creativity process. These can vary according and imagination is a appropriate inspirational material. Once we had our images we were left to create our board, by placing the images on the table, NOT STICK THEM DOWN ON PAPER! This way we could experiment with out boards by moving the images around, as well as adding more, or taking away any. We then moved around, one, two, three places along to move other peoples concept boards around. I found it was very beneficial to see other peoples ideas and approaches to your project.
Overall I have extremely enjoyed my first week at Ravensbourne, Finding the work to be challenging,enjoyable and informative. I am very much looking forward to the weeks and year ahead of me.
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