HND2A - WORKSHOP - ‘Fashion Set Building’
Aim - in groups build a set/ backdrop for a fashion portrait photograph, using items proved or sourced in and around the college. Discuss and plan before hand.
Research - Inspiration - Irving Penn, David Eustace.
Development - My team started out as a smaller group of 3, in this team we discussed the general theme/ idea we were going for. We looked at the work of Irving Penn and used the corner set up as our main background which ties in with the iconic images that Penn took. We worked well as a team and all had a very similar vision for the set. Unfortuately when it came to actually building the set there were only 2 of us and so we decided to work together to build the set and have it as more of a fashion/ clothes only advertisement photo. We matched together things that we felt worked well together and were a but more quirky and out of the box. We used a stool that we got from the art department upstairs, a dust-protecting sheet from the downstairs building site department, the frames we also borrowed off another department which we then hung up with string and difficulty. The hangers, I got those, the case was already in the room and both of us luckily happened to be wearing matching check shirts.
Maybe the point of the exercise was to build a set, but we did that in a different way - none of us being good at arts and crafts projects, we decided to construct it using already made objects - but that still involved a lot that is good practice for future projects - resources, constructing the set, problem solving when things went wrong.