Collaborating Ideas...

Within the original set brief, we were asked to collaborate our individual research and ideas with one other; fusing our concepts and designs to create an interesting outcome. Lucy Jane Taylor (also a blogger) and myself chose to work together, not only as we share a keen work ethic!..,but also because whilst we have similar ideas and thought processes, our designs are always distinctively different to one anothers; Lucy's being more to the linear, androgynous characteristic, and my own favouring a more rounded aesthetic.

Through mapping out both of our individual ideas, we discovered there were great areas of overlap to exploit; this shows our combined ideas...

From this we quickly came to the same conclusion as to how to create our combined designs and a general outline of how our final piece would work technically; this was a flow chart we drew up as clarification:
Aware that all this technology is either only just emerging or under development, we then began to think through a way to display our final garment to the rest of the innovation group, showing all of it's elements of interactivity. It became clear that this could only be comprehendibly done by shooting a video of our garment on a model that then visually explained itself. Whilst calling on a great model myself and Lucy have both worked with previously (Emma Howl), and searching for a willing moving image photographer, we researched the styles of videos that we felt would work best in conjunction with our design. These are a few of our favourites that we came across...

All of these videos from the SHOWstudio website have a certain element we would like to consider for our own piece. The clarity of the interaction, shown in the final one, with the movement and the surroundings is an integral part that must be shown in ours. The pedestrian choreography featured in Ruth Hogben's video is perhaps something that would suit our production; as well as the fading/merging effect, of layered images utilised in the 'Clown' video, that would work well within our projection on to the garment...