Rational; 25th February to 31st March

I am picking back up on the Alternative Miss World project for the five weeks leading up to FMP. For this project I will be creating three final designs based around a contestant that I create. I am going to use this time and project to further develop my design skills, to work on the process I go through to create my final designs and to build on my technical knowledge I have about garment construction. Working on this will help me when it comes to creating garment/ garments for my FMP.

I am carrying through the theme of Britain but rather than moving away from films and physical items I will be looking at a variety of famous British figures and seeing how they could be interpreted within a garment and whether they would create an interesting contestant. As Alternative Miss World is about everything odd and eccentric I had the idea of putting a twist on the traditional but I need to do research into whether that would work as an idea. I will then take the final designs that I have and experiment with creating them with different materials to see which would work best. Alongside improving my designing and knowledge I want to use these weeks to work on my time management and balancing everything so that all my work gets completed on time. I have created a basic timescale to keep what I am doing moving and so I achieve all the things that I want to;

Week 1 (25th February-3rd March)

Collate and look back on previous research to see where I am with my work currently. From this I will extend my research moving toward the way I want to take my work and start to pull influence and ideas from the extended research.

Week 2 (4th March- 10th March)

Look at the initial ideas I have got from the week before through doing further research. Take stronger ideas and research further into them to create design variations and general design progression.

Week 3 (11th March- 17th March)

Narrow down the designs that I like and think work the best, from these look at the influences I had for them and what I could use for the contestants name. Start looking at the designs I have done to see whether they would work with the three rounds of swimwear, daywear and eveningwear, from this further develop designs. I will have the first draft for my SOI done so can see whether alternations need making to it.

Week 4 (18th March- 24th March)

Narrow down the designs I have to move towards the three final designs for the contestant. Refine these designs and ideas to create the final designs and look at the colour pallets and the patterns that I want to use with the designs.

Week 5 (25th March- 31st March)

Experiment with fabrics and materials I could use to create my final design. Create a coloured up version of my three final designs to give and idea of how the colours work together. Look at making basic mock-ups of some elements of my design; pick back up on my basic making skills ready for my FMP.