The End.

The last three weeks have been a mission to say the least, I can see that Lucia and the rest of the team are rushed off there feet. when I got in on Monday morning I saw the stage build but no walls or anything and the walls were covered in white material which Lucia managed to get from blackout.

Blackout supplies events with all sorts of materials and drapes. The stage was hired from white light and it cost us half of our £500 budget which was a bit of a problem so we couldn’t spend the money anywhere else.

On the Monday me and a few others put up the walls and hinged them together so that they wouldn’t fall down as they were quite heavy. as time drew nearer to the event tension built.

Tuesday I went back to the nursery gallery and the lighting and sound was all being set up fast, I helped tape down wires and clean the floors, I just helped where I could which I enjoyed.

At the end of the day I was asked by Vero to help her on Wednesday with the fittings in a lecture theatre, I was excited to help so the next day I came in at 10am to help her. Most of that day consisted in me helping the girls in and out of the costumes as some of them were too delicate to just force on. I felt like I had to keep the models entertained because the day wasn’t t he most organised. By the end of the day I left that room around 2 and headed to help the Nursery gallery team again in anything I could do.

THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY

Its event day and everyone is stressed and excited, we finally got a stage manager in the final week which was Jonathan and he whipped everyone into shape, we had quite a few rehearsals and I then offered to help meg with labelling the seating and helping her sign people in as they turned up, everything was looking perfect, except, I realised that the show was very short and we suggested to the producers to have a small interval to get people in and out of the clothes easier but they rejected the request. I personally knew there were more clothes in the back as I had spent all day running the clothes up to a room for another fitting and also the day before doing the same. so I did not understand why we couldn’t extend the show as it was way too short, especially as people had travelled far just to come to the show.

So finally I sat in the reception with Meg as we ticked people in and gave them wrist bands and guest stickers, I enjoyed this bit until people started showing up that were not invited or signed in and Meg started getting stressed out as our tutor was breathing down our necks.

I ended taking people to the room and I got shut in there as the show started, Meg got shut out and I know was quite distressed and upset unfortunately.

I watched the show and this time it felt longer and was pretty brilliant. I really was proud of our class in that moment as I looked around and saw all of us have a moment of relief as the short documentary played and the projections worked and the clothes and models looked amazing, I really was proud.

After the show everyone was allowed to go into the Darkroom bar to have a drink, but we had to all help the tech team put all the tech away, this included all lights and wires and projectors.

after we all went for a drink and had a great time, not realising in the morning we had to clear the gallery and tidy everything up. people were coming to collect things in the morning and we were not looking forward to waking up.

The next day we all woke up with small headaches and head down to the university to help clear everything else away, feeling sorry for our selves and being shattered from a weeks worth of grafting when we finished that day we all wanted to just sleep.

THE END….

or is it…

We defiantly would do it all over again.

The Build up-

As the fashion show is next week everyone is getting a bit more stressed while I was gone they got pallets for the stage which was an idea I came up with in the first week, but it took a dramatic turn when we found out that after the pallets were examined they were not being able to be used with out being coated in fire proof paint, this was a major set back this week and we needed to think of something fast.

Lots of things changed while I was away, the stage plan turned into a generic run way instead of a square run way and the entrance for the models turned into a generic entrance, I would say a lot of the creativity had disappeared and it was more about making it simple and easy, so white walls and projections, everything was still sustainable but not as flamboyant as I think we would of wanted it. The one thing we are still doing is the Instagram wall which we are designing and creating. Hepsie is in charge of that so I said I would help out where I can so i cut out probably around 100 strips out of fabric for her to use as flowers.

People seamed way more concerned with the stage and the set more than getting the designers and clothes which I was slightly worried about, but as I decided to take a step back this term I didn’t want to over do my role or tell anyone what to do. I probably was not assertive this week enough and maybe I needed to power through and get excited again.

This fashion show has been a mission from the start and i can see Lucia running around like a headless chicken worrying and stressing so all i keep asking is “where do you need me?”

Sara had some news at the end of the week that Colucci was only doing one decorated mannequin for the show instead of two.

Work placement 6th – 10th may

Week one in my work placement was not as successful as I hoped which is a disappointment for me, I found that my work placement was more of a running job than any learning experience. for example:

Day three- day three I was told to take milk up to the top floor of the building which meant me climbing 8 flights of stairs which I was fine with, when I got there I saw there was milk in the fridge which I knew was also being used so I put the milk in the fridge and went back down to the basement which is where I was based in the building this was were the kitchen was, I mentioned there was milk already in the fridge so they sent me back to take that milk and put it in the fridge down stairs. After reading that paragraph I’m pretty sure you was even bored and didn’t learn anything from that.

I was getting more and more fed up and as much as there was a lot of nice people in the building I wasn’t the most comfortable person in the room. over time I did create some friendship with some lovely editors and colour graders which I was happy about but unfortunately I got about half an hour with them all week which I knew I wasn’t learning much from.

A colour grader called ‘Aiden’ let me have a go on the colour grading tech and I was automatically very happy. this was the most I had done all week but I really was applicative of it as most of the time I was just waiting around in the kitchen and being all nervous because hospitality makes me nervous.

So by the end of the week I decided to call a quits and carry on with the fashion show as I thought I would gain more experience with that than anything else at the moment, so I sent a polite email off to splice and that was the end of the week.

Week one –

29th April – 3rd May

This week we had many meetings we created drawings and plans of the nursery gallery, all pictures will be put in the picture gallery of this website, during the meetings we were still talking about having a round cut out of the wall so that the models can walk out of something which is different to the average fashion show. we are still debating about the name we had a meeting which lasted an hour on the name of the event, I feel it may be more important than it seams we debated on ‘Construction, Reconstruction’ and ‘up cycle’ but we came to the conclusion of ‘Worn’ which I believe is a great choice for an event but now looking back at this week I would of proffered to call it something a little more up lifting like ‘Revived’. people were struggling with its first name ‘Wear the shared’ as it was more like a tag line than a name as cleaver as it sounds.

We had many meetings this week that I feel lagged but we also got quite a bit done. unfortunately next week I have to disappear to my work experience at splice.

The fashion show task was given to us in case we were not going on a placement but some people chose to do that instead of a placement anyway.

26th April

Today we had briefing of the event and they told us what the theme and the event was going to be like.

The event will be a sustainable fashion show which will be happening on the 23rd of March, so this means we have fore weeks to organise the fashion show.

I have a placement that starts on the 6th of March so I am hoping to get a job in the fashion show which means I have a lot of influence but I don’t have to commit to much as I am leaving.

Today we also filled in an events permission form for the nursery gallery so we can have a certain amount of people attend the event and also drinks if we would like.

We then had a design meeting strait away after the briefing which we then decided a lot needed to be changed this included the name and lots of the initial designs we were given.

we spent at least two hours after the session in that room deciding and planning what we wanted to do and what idea we all had.

I had an idea that they would walk out of the back through a cut out circle and we base the whole event around a washing machine, but unfortunately after a bit of discussion the idea was liked but not loved and made to seam like it was impossible.

After the hours of deliberating we decided to go home and give it a good think and come in the next day.