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KASHIRA | 19 | INFP | INT DESIGN

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Instructor: Phyllis De Verteuil 

Course Review: 8/10

This class was super informative in the basics of pattern drafting garments and sewing them. Given the online format, it was very difficult to get questions answered when the teacher isn’t there to show you exactly how to sew something or pin something. Instructional videos sometimes weren’t very clear and you would need to rely on outside sources for help. However, Phyllis was very open to answering questions if you needed help and was very quick to reply to emails when you had questions. Overall, I learned a lot of sewing and pattern drafting skills that helped me make some cosplays over the summer. 

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Final Experimental Garment

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Narrative Photoshoot: Lazy Sunday

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3D Fashion Image Series

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8 Fashion Collages

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Basic Bodice Manipulation: Experimental Bodice

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Worn Stories: Kigurumi

If you ask a Californian what they think is a comfortable temperature, it’s likely a small range between 65-80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Growing up, my father always told me to dress lots of layers during the winter, as he was deathly afraid of the cold. Temperatures don’t seem that cold when compared to other areas like Chicago or New York but for us Californians, 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit equals freezing. The most logical solution to beat the cold was to turn on the heater, I thought, but my father was very stingy with the gas bill, so our heater would stay off, no matter how cold it got. Because of that, our only option was to dress the many layers as my father said.

My father was okay waddling around the house with 4 layers of jackets on, but for me, it felt extremely constricting to wear so many layers when doing work. At first, I thought to wrap a blanket around me, but as I worked, the blanket would quickly slip off my shoulders and fall, which became a nuisance whenever I wanted to focus. In the end, I found out about kigurumis, which I thought could be the perfect solution to my chilly troubles. I found a design I liked, ordered it, and waited for it to ship.

Trying it on for the first time was exactly want I wanted it to be. Not only did it fit perfectly, but it provided warmth without the bulky layers. I could focus on my work and not have to think about the layers of clothing constricting movement. Since then, my kigurumis have become a second skin every winter. Whenever I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is slip on that kigurumi, get cozy, and start my work for the day.

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Basic Bodice

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Final Video Experimentation: Switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Sfnod_Mvk

Premise:

Switch is a short film with the theme of montage and horror. The premise surrounds a girl who switches identity with her mannequin and wakes up to a dream. When trying to return back to reality, she instead becomes tied to the mannequin’s identity in the dream, and her original self dies.

Because the length of the film is short in nature, using montage will emphasize each scene more. The works of animator Satoshi Kon, who used lots of match cuts and graphic matches in his films inspired this short film. He liked playing with the idea of reality and fantasy, where the matching images of the match cut were how he linked the two worlds together and is something that is explored in Switch. Kon also has a unique way of building up a narrative, where he would show the build-up to a climax, only to cut away and show the aftermath afterward. Switch has some inspiration to this style of narrative progression, however not as extensive. Tell No One’s Metamorphosis also inspired this film, as it featured a horror-esque narrative with a twist at the end, and used sound design as a way to capture the mood of the film.

Switch relies heavily on timing which will constitute the pacing of the short film as well as create expectations to be broken as the film progresses. Like Satoshi Kon’s method to bridge worlds together through match cuts, match cuts of close-up angles of the face will help illustrate the switch in appearance, and match cuts of the landscape will illustrate the change in location. To build suspense, jump cuts with accompanying sounds will help pick up the pace of the film and move the narrative along to the next sequence. Dutch tilting the shots of the mannequin will add to the strangeness and uneasiness, the sound design will also enhance this mood. For the finale, the addition of color will add shock value in addition to the twist in the narrative.

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Basic Skirt Manipulation: Circle Skirt

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Basic Skirt Manipulation: A-line Skirt

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Photo Romans: Late Birthday Celebration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURf1rO2Gpo

A girl prepares a birthday celebration for a friend. It’s at the end of the film when the audience finds out the friend is deceased, and that the person was in denial when preparing the celebration, until the very end when they learn that it’s going to be okay.

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Basic Pencil Skirt 

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Still to Moving Narrative Progression: Graduation

Graduation in 2020 was not the experience I had dreamed of during the beginning of my senior year. For many seniors like myself, we were faced with the reality of being stuck at home instead of celebrating the next chapter in life. This photomontage documents the transition of excitement that turned into demotivation because of the coronavirus.

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Time Map: Left Behind in Sidewalk Shadows

Left Behind in Sidewalk Shadows depicts the shadows I saw during a walk around the neighborhood. During that walk, the shadows on the ground captured my attention, as each silhouette was unique to the object that casts it. I was intrigued by them and how they would change depending on the sunlight. As I walked forward on the sidewalk, the shadow I saw moved behind me, becoming what’s left at that moment in time as the next shadow appeared. The shadows defined the existence of what I saw during that journey. Each new shadow I encountered was representative of movement and change, both of which define the passage of time. Even if the viewer can’t relive the experience I had on the walk, the shadows pave the path I took and serve as markers in time.

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Distraction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxnmIG3xg4

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Taeha Types Cooking Competition Submission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZPPrBSsT5c