– Final outcome?

Because we enjoyed making the jackets so much, both me and Alice wanted to continue it and try to develop it further. During the task we found this blue, latex like material which after a while thinking about what we could do with it decided making it into a corset using the mannequin as a model for us.

We then came up with the idea to project Alice’s punk moodboard/collage onto the material as an experiment. As it worked, but not great because the colour of the material was too dark we decided to buy a white corset as the projections would come up a lot clearer. Using the projections the idea was to draw tracing over the collage to make a cool, punk print corset which we could later use for a our final shoot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7QTcYuf5Y – david cameron, black mirror ep. could be good to get a short bit where it shows what happens between david and pig as form of activism so maybe towards end?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adih-yIc8kc – various thatcher speeches. 2.30 mins in for best one visually imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZPqBNc4wmw – thatcher – quite good 40 seconds in seeing her after being elected – defo include in vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-rVjlDVd0 – thatcher – good one min in… begs the question of why should we put one person in control??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNqncE5lHhI – various good clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHxSb_su_U – socialist protest during thatchers reign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjnSsaIu70 – interesting – who we’ve chosen to rule fighting against each other

Use videos to make a short montage video for the group presentation. Rise – fall showing effects of over controlling.

Both Alice and I have been looking into the Punk subculture and decided to use Alice’s jackets with my materials to create a sort of punk and Vivienne Westwood inspired jackets. I really enjoyed this process and like the outcome of the jackets though the blue one is my favourite. I think we should definitely try and shoot these on.

Using a strange and wide range of materials that we (my group) throught depicted our theme ‘Control & Activism’, we assembled objects randomly to see what we could create.

 Half Way Point!

After visiting the People’s History Museum, I found the vast range of political movements really interesting, especially feminism. Others that were also interesting and shamefully some I was unaware of like ‘Cato street conspirators’. In 1820 an attempt to assassinate the Government was made and I found this particularly helpful to become aware of because it coincides greatly with my project theme and begs the question as to why people would want to destroy the government. Is control a bad thing? The museum also included acts such as The Industrial Revolution, The French Revolution, fight for equality and Sir Frances Burdett’s reforming MP status demanding votes for all and to end corruption.

Although I found this trip interesting, I’m not sure how or if I’d like to involve it in my project.

Being given the title theme ‘Control and Activism’ makes you question how much control we actually have over our lives. After initially brainstorming the theme, I thought it would be pretty interesting to look into this. One way we definitely have the option of expressing ourselves is through fashion. From the choices we make when we paint ourselves with makeup in the morning, what clothes assemblages we create, tattoos we get and jewellery we wear says a lot about who we are but also what we are trying to communicate about ourselves to other people.

However, to what extent do we actually control what we wear? Many people may be too shy or in fear of being ridiculed to wear what they actually want to but unlike them, above my models, Bailey and Ella proudly exhibit there own sense of styles which I think says a lot about who they are.

I’d like to take this topic further by looking into whether or not we can control the majority of our choices and lives.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton