For
my Self Directed Project I was given a choice to which project wanted
to apply and take part in and I have chosen the Moving Tides Carnival.
This is a really exciting procession taking place in Weymouth
on 12thJuly
as part of the Martime mix and an introduction to the Olympic torch
relay. It gives all children in this area an opportunity to take part
of this procession wearing a costume created by themselves with my
direction. I have been assigned to Beechcroft primary school and have
a class of year 5 children which I will work with over the course of
5 weeks to teach them step by step how to make the costume I have
designed for them to wear in the procession...
When
initially hearing about the opportunity, I knew straight away that it
would be the best option for me, considering from my action plan
curated during the professional environment unit which outlined my
vocational context for work being 3D based. I get a lot of
fulfillment from this type of work and concluded that an opportunity
to get messy and the chance to improve my costume translation skills
from 2D to 3D will definitely benefit me.I have always enjoyed
working in a ‘hands-on’ environment and get most satisfaction
from actually producing something from scratch with my own ideas
sparked off by a brief. Backed up with this and previous experience
working with latex, wire, withies, clay, and paper mache I thought
this project would be perfect for what I want to explore more with.
It is not only designing and creating that excites me but the fact of
working out how to instill this knowledge in an easy manner to
children I expect will be really rewarding.
We
have had a few workshops as great introductions to the project
already to get us enthused about the project at hand...
Trip
to Weymouth to visit past costumes used in the carnival
This
was a really useful trip and gave me great inspiration into what was
expected of me for the project. It especially helped in relation to
the idea of materials and showed me that there is no limit to what
can be used.
In
past years such materials have included willow, feather bowa's,
umbrellas, tie dye, popcorn, plasterzote and much more...This project
seems to be all about the resourcefulness of what is possible with
these materials, and with such a small budget, creativity and
imagination is key...
Kinetika
carnival weekend workshops
Day 1 -Kinetika is an international design company who bring together costumes, puppets, flags and much more for festivals, carnivals and events around the world. Working with Moving tides we are lucky enough to be working in collaboration with them and had a full weekend with carnival workshops. It was also a weekend for us students to meet our assigned school primary teachers and get to know them and the learn about the classes we will be working with. We worked together to come up with a design for 2 large sails that will be held at the beginning of the procession as well as practicing with batik painting...
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Conversations
with the teacher about ideas have seemed to result in ideas around
Sea Monsters and maybe Giant squids... This seems quite appropriate
as it was interesting to find out that 31/40 children I am working
with will be boys!! Its important that all the children want to take
part in the activities, so doing a design that both sexes will be
happy with creating...
Day
2 - The
second day we focused on the components to the costume;
make up & headdresses. We had a great talk from an employee
at Angel exit about the easy possibilities of headdresses and
how children would create them yet still look really effective.
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