The Third Year of My Costume Degree
The image opposite is one of the textiles pieces I made for the final major project of my costume degree.
In this lens I'm going to tell you about how I made a costume out of origami, designed costumes for the last book in the Bible and what Rosemary's Baby has in common with Red Dragon.
This is lens about the costume degree I studied and will eventually be a lensography of my Costume lenses with a bit more information about when and why I did certain projects.
More lenses will be added as I work my way through all my old coursework and remember all the bits and pieces of work I produced!
In this lens I'm going to tell you about how I made a costume out of origami, designed costumes for the last book in the Bible and what Rosemary's Baby has in common with Red Dragon.
This is lens about the costume degree I studied and will eventually be a lensography of my Costume lenses with a bit more information about when and why I did certain projects.
More lenses will be added as I work my way through all my old coursework and remember all the bits and pieces of work I produced!
Summary of the Third Year
Including:
I believe there was a great deal of professional development work in this year whcih means going over your career options and sorting out your portfolio and so forth but I'll leave that out for now. I also helped out on the Graduate Directory which was a cute little book where we all had a page each with a little bit of blurb and some examples of our work. If I can find it, I'll scan in my page!
Salome
As far as I can recall this was my first project of the third year and something i'd worked on a little over the summer holidays (between working at Burger King to pay off my overdraft from going to America).
I decided that as this was a story set in Biblical times and as Romans were kind of about then and as Romans had "folds" in their togas and so on then I could make this project all about origami! So I set about designing origami costumes. I produced initial designs for all of the costumes, one finished design and a costume. Of course that costume has now vanished off the face of this earth so I can't really tell you about it - it was not my favourite though and I kind of left the white silk trousers in a bag with an apple for a few months so they got a really gross stain on them - I didn't find out about that until I realised they had to go in our yearly costume show - oops!
The Book of Revelation
What on earth was I thinking?
Well I was kind of thinking that the book of Revelation (yep, that one in the Bible) would make a really greeat fantasy costume project - well it's got dragons and angels and stuff in it, what more could a girl want?
I spent the majority of this project avoiding my tutor by walking calmly out of the room whenever he came in and hiding in other rooms making crazy textiles pieces based on cell structures.
Dissertation
We didn't really write a proper dissertation, the length was cut short so we didn't have to write as much as people on more "academic" degrees did. I believe we might only have had to write 10,000 words which was a number that terrified me back then. Now I'm say 10,000, whatever! I've written 200,000 words in a month for Nanowrimo! Of course, I wasn't doing the rest of my degree at the same time!
My mind was a bit confused over this project. I chose some odd movies to talk about and I'm not sure it really works. I haven't yet had the guts to reread through the tome to see if it's as embarassingly awful as I remember, maybe someday soon!
I believe there was a great deal of professional development work in this year whcih means going over your career options and sorting out your portfolio and so forth but I'll leave that out for now. I also helped out on the Graduate Directory which was a cute little book where we all had a page each with a little bit of blurb and some examples of our work. If I can find it, I'll scan in my page!
Salome
As far as I can recall this was my first project of the third year and something i'd worked on a little over the summer holidays (between working at Burger King to pay off my overdraft from going to America).
I decided that as this was a story set in Biblical times and as Romans were kind of about then and as Romans had "folds" in their togas and so on then I could make this project all about origami! So I set about designing origami costumes. I produced initial designs for all of the costumes, one finished design and a costume. Of course that costume has now vanished off the face of this earth so I can't really tell you about it - it was not my favourite though and I kind of left the white silk trousers in a bag with an apple for a few months so they got a really gross stain on them - I didn't find out about that until I realised they had to go in our yearly costume show - oops!
The Book of Revelation
What on earth was I thinking?
Well I was kind of thinking that the book of Revelation (yep, that one in the Bible) would make a really greeat fantasy costume project - well it's got dragons and angels and stuff in it, what more could a girl want?
I spent the majority of this project avoiding my tutor by walking calmly out of the room whenever he came in and hiding in other rooms making crazy textiles pieces based on cell structures.
Dissertation
We didn't really write a proper dissertation, the length was cut short so we didn't have to write as much as people on more "academic" degrees did. I believe we might only have had to write 10,000 words which was a number that terrified me back then. Now I'm say 10,000, whatever! I've written 200,000 words in a month for Nanowrimo! Of course, I wasn't doing the rest of my degree at the same time!
My mind was a bit confused over this project. I chose some odd movies to talk about and I'm not sure it really works. I haven't yet had the guts to reread through the tome to see if it's as embarassingly awful as I remember, maybe someday soon!
Salome
By Oscar Wilde.
In my third year I really did want to have another go at making a full costume.
I'd made a costume for The Tempest project in the second year but I decided that the first full costume I ever made had to involve stilts, an enormously heavy wig and a skirt with about 9 metres of fabric. Oh yeah and there were hip buckets too. And I had to get someone in the 3D department to make me some stilts. Pity my poor model who did so well at coping and walking around in it at our annual costume show.
Anyway, back to Salome.
So yeah, I decided that I didn't want to make a costume from someone else's image, I only wanted to make one from my own designs. And it had to be a male costume because I'd already made a full costume and garments for women.
Did I produce something normal?
No. I had to decide that I wanted to make a costume out of origami with a ridiculous origami headdress. Again, another innocent model was tortured.
Find out more below.
I'd made a costume for The Tempest project in the second year but I decided that the first full costume I ever made had to involve stilts, an enormously heavy wig and a skirt with about 9 metres of fabric. Oh yeah and there were hip buckets too. And I had to get someone in the 3D department to make me some stilts. Pity my poor model who did so well at coping and walking around in it at our annual costume show.
Anyway, back to Salome.
So yeah, I decided that I didn't want to make a costume from someone else's image, I only wanted to make one from my own designs. And it had to be a male costume because I'd already made a full costume and garments for women.
Did I produce something normal?
No. I had to decide that I wanted to make a costume out of origami with a ridiculous origami headdress. Again, another innocent model was tortured.
Find out more below.
Cell Structure Textiles
This is a lens dedicated to the textiles I produced based on cell structures. Some of these pieces are from my degree and some of them are things that I produced afterwards. Enjoy!
Find Out About My Other Costume Degree Years
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tandemonimom Sep 27, 2009 @ 2:38 pm | delete
- Again, beautiful!
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ajgodinho Sep 26, 2009 @ 6:58 pm | delete
- Excellent work on this lens and well written - I really like all those designs. Thanks for taking us through the process! :)
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