Great Minds Think Alike..

Steven Cherry's & myself poster for the film: ' More Than Meet The Eye.'

I am very pleased with the outcome, all our hard work paid off. I look forward to working with Steven in the future.

Flora-FlowerFootwear

Flower Footwear, we were asked to created shoes out of flowers, in my research I had looked at flower’s life cycle from a seed until death, I explored seeds and bulbs, pressing flowers and dying flowers, and I also looked at fake flowers. When creating my shoes I wanted to attempt to capture these stages. I created my first shoe from fake flowers to represent the live, living flowers it is based on one of my favourite pair of high heels and the shoe is life size. The second shoe is based on a ballerina shoe, slipper again made from false flowers representing the living. The final shoe is based on the flowers dying and I used dried flowers to create a wedge style of shoe, which is slightly smaller than the first shoe but also life size,

Step into a fairytale. The shoes are an arty creation not to be worn. They are unique and fit into my theme of ‘Weird & Wonderful’; I have been told they look like Tim Burton, Tim Walker style- very out there, creepy and fun. Which I am proud, as I love both Walker and Burton’s work. My work seems to have that intriguing, strange and erry feel, It is mysterious, unknown, playful and vampish, these themes can be identified throughout most of my work this was unintended & done subconsciously but now I feel that my style has been recognized and am happy about this. I have my own original ‘Weird & Wonderful’ way of working.

VW

For the build brief we had to create a 3D object to represent a brand that we choose.

The brand that I choose to rebrand was Vivienne Westwood,

I like that she is original, very out there and quirky. I admire that she taught herself

 How to make clothes from scratch and like the punk, rock chick style that mainly she

Is responsible for. Her logo is the orb I started off trying to make my own version,

 Interpretation of her logo and then decided as it is a rebrand it would have to be

Something new and different to represent her. Throughout my research into VW I

 Found she uses a lot of skulls and as she started the punk, rock chick style I thought it is definitely apprapopraite to use a skull as the symbol, 3D object as the rebrand.

My first attempt I used mod-rock casting a friend’s head to create a skull and covering it in tartan and fishnet fabric, as these are stereotypical VW attributes. I decided the fabrics were too obvious. The teeth are wrapped in gold foil as for VW first collection she wrapped her teeth in the gold foil of a cigarette packet which not many people would know the reason

Behind it and I like having the personal link to the brand. My second skull works better as pink is not a typical colour VW would use but the tissue paper I used has her gold logo (but this is not obvious unless you look closely) printed on it as it is paper from her store The bow is made from ribbon from her store with subtle yet stereotypical safety pins echoing the punk era, I added false eyelashes as I wanted to make it more of a girly contrast to the chains and safety pins a juxtaposition that I think work well.

"Old School Britania"

My favourite part of any photo shoot is coming up with a concept, theme and idea’s for the shoot & the overall look- after all its the visual that is captured & sells the product- creating   the overall aesthetics, mood, - along with a slogan, caption or jingle.  As of recent I like writing; I think being able to write concisely is the key. I love styling and photography. I like all kinds of photography but mainly Fashion related.

I have decided that I am going to use my summer project which I have added a series of images  which I titled a "series of six" as they are my favourite shots but I took many more images I will use A Series of Six in Weird&Wonderful.

 “OldSchoolBritania” - Firstly for the photo shoot I went around a lot of vintage shops in Liverpool with my models, I picked out the outfits they tried them on I then purchased my favourites. In one of the shops the dresses where to expensive for me to purchase, I there for asked could I use there shop as a location for the shoot as it was perfect homely and cozy the manager agreed, I then brought my purchases and also borrowed items of clothing, accessories and any props- It was ideal, we only had two hours to get the shots I needed it was a great experience and I had to think fast and on my feet and also work around any customers, staff in the shop. My second location was in my work place a bridal shop. I am really pleased with the outcome and love the photo’s, they have the vintage,

 Retro Glam, feel that I wanted.

Weird & Wonderful

 We have been given the brief to create a magazine spread of all or some of our work from this semester. I am really looking forward to it as this will be my second time of making a magazine as we did in first year in photoshop but we are using Indesign this time around.  Weird & Wonderful is a collection of my work throughout my second year as a Fashion Communication student. I have styled, photographed and edited my work. I choose the title ‘Weird & Wonderful’ as I think it describes my work well, I like the use of alliteration and would be intrigued to see what is inside. I enjoy the work that I do I’d like to think it reflects in my work. I love colour but I really like monochrome photographs, Black and White is timeless and looks sophisticated. I think Polaroid’s are fantastic being able to have an instant image there in seconds; I have two cameras a Cannon SLR and a Polaroid camera. The Images are of my hands on this double page spread, which I took in my first year for a self-identity project. ‘Weird & Wonderful’ is prodomently of images and minimal text so you can make of them what you want.

This is an image I took when researching into flora, I am going to use it for my front cover as it fits well with my theme, title 'Weird & Wonderful' as it is unclear what the image is of at first glance, I like the colours, pattern and texture. I used a slow shutter speed to create the soft, blurred effect.

Gokettes:Promoting Gok's Fashion Fix!

Day One:

Wednesday 17th November 2010, 

Gok's Press rang Liverpool John Moores University and asked if the students would like to help promote his Fashion Fix and of course I couldn't pass the opportunity! We were filmed handing out the flyers and all LJMU's students had a group photo with Gok- he even spoke to me when I snook in next to him- " ...OOO Hello Gorgeous.." as camp and friendly as ever! 

I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the day!

 Two:

Thursday 18th November 2010,

We were filmed in the Met Quater Shopping Centre Liverpool, going down the escalator, walking into the shop, being part of the live audience for Gok's Fashion Fix, Where Gok alters his outfits styled together from the high street competing against Brix Designer labels. Gok did three looks, Heritage, 70's Glamour and Alpine. I loved 70's Glamour, stunning dresses that draped beautifully, hidden seems styled symmetrically, royal blue and gold perfect combination, accessorized just enough less is definitely more! 

I was one of the lucky few who got an up close photo- which wasn't blurred! I will treasure this! ='] 

 Three: 

Friday 19th November 2010

The Fashion Face off on the Catwalk the public and the Gokettes's came out and in the minus freezing temps but there was an electric atmosphere, the girls sat behind me thought that Brig’s outfits were high street and gok's were designer, which I would of agreed if I hadn't seen Gok alter and style his look’s. I burst the girl’s bubble and she was shocked I had an amazing three day's- fab experience Thanks LJMU,  Especially Delphine Wilson.

collaborating..

I met a third year graphics student Steven Cherry when printing my work in uni he saw some of my work and asked me would I like to collaborate with him, he would edit and I would photograph I said yes I'd love to. We met up and discussed the brief it was to create a film poster which we read the script for and we did our research into horror film imagery and font text. The film was called more than meets the eye and Steven stated that he wanted to use an actual eye on the poster and luckily we both agreed to try and not make it cheesy and to try and make it look as original as possible. I suggested making an optical illusion as the plot of the script was of a man who wasn't actually there. 

I really enjoyed working with Steven, he taught me allot about photoshop which I didn't know and I think I taught him things about photography he didn't know. I ended up editing a lot of the images- which I felt proud of as I had taken & edited them!  The final poster I edited & Steven added the font. It was a great experience and I would love to work with him again in the future as he is inspiring and full of great ideas. It made me aware of time scale on projects and that it was possible to get done a lot in a little time space. We did find it hard to arrange meetings with both of us having other uni commitments, work and a social life but we managed to rearrange, reschedule and fit in all the meetings, worked together and separately. We will definitely stay in contact and hopefully work together again I would highly recommend him as a graphics designer. The Final Poster is finished and I also have other Images to be uploaded at a later date as I am having technical problems of changing them of tiffs to Jpegs! 

A Series of Six

anti fur campaign add

Photo's I took in my Uni Halls Lounge with a large sheet of paper taped up! 

It too me ages to get this lighting I wanted from just a spot light/lamp!

 Remember"paitence is a virtue!"

Use of Ransom note letters that I collaged.

First Idea for my poster collage & photography combined:

Final Poster:

 submitted to the compettition  in my First Year of Uni 2009/2010.