What's going to be my Personal Project?

My Plan

So:

1. I had thought an idea.
2. I had filmed a fashion show.
3. Was it over?

Well of course not. So I sat down to think what was I going to investigate in my project.  I had to look for a inquiring question and decide what my product was going to be. I pointed my two strenght's: Writing and Filming. I knew I had to play with that. Was I just going to edit the show and that be my product? No.  So I sat down with my mentor to think what my product was going to be. Finally it stands like this:

My product is going to be a video that shows the different faces/aspects of fashion. The glamour, superficial, creative, commercial side of fashion. Also I was going to write an article discussing if fashion was beneficial or not to our society.*

Topic: The Fashion Industry *1

Mentor: Sonya Kunawicz

Area of Interaction: Social Education

Inquiring question: What are the different faces of the fashion industry?

10 of April:

Have investigation and plan finished.

15 of April: 

Started to write the article or to brainstorm.

30 of Abril:

Try to have all my filming done to start editing.

30 of May:

Video and Essay ended.

30 of June:

Proyect and Product done.

* At first I thought of writing an essay but then Sonya, my mentor, said 'Essay are for teachers, when you write an article you reach more to the public." I agreed.

*1 I changed the idea of making my topic fashion because I think the word symbolyzes and means so much that you have break it down. I will then say that I will investigate the European and American (meaning the whole continent) industry.

Couture Week in London

My mentor sent me this article that she thought I would find interesting:

"Two of the things that baffle me about life backstage is the sheer amount of people allowed to be back there and also why so many fashion photographers feel the need to have a lackey to hold their flash units for them. Invariably, they end up holding it exactly where it would be if it was mounted and all it does is fill the place up even more. Plenty of other guys mount their flash units on the camera use-ring-flash units so it's always a little frustrating when your when your way is blocked by yet another person serving as a glorified lighting stand."

"Another joyful experience is the skill of learning  how to balance on a stack of randomly assembled blocks, boxes and crates to get a decent view from within the scrum of photographers. As you can see from the shot, there isn't much room left to breath, never mind work. Randomly chopping and changing lenses mid-show is frowned upon as you're working so closely to the erson next to you that you're bound to knock on them, so you learn to choose your weapons and stick to them. having been sent a selection of slings by the lovely people at Black Rapid a while ago, I've worked out two situation where the're at their most useful. These seem to be any occasuin where you have to wear a suit, and fashion week. the former is due to the straps being worn under the suit jacket and stopping the crumples from attacking before you've even started your job. The later is due to the fact that you need to keep things close, but not be weighted down with heavy pouches. with this mind, I attached my 70-20mm to my R-strap, put the 300mm on one body and the 24-70mm on another, meaning that I'd only have to find a temporary home for the 24-70mm. Not the most riveting of snippets  to share   I know but  it's a workflow, that, er works!"

I liked this article because it decribed how difficult it was for her to film with all the people around. When I went to tape the show, although, I wasn't standing where the press was it was hard to acomodate the camera and the tripod to get a good shot.

This article is by Leon Neal, taken from the website: http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2012/02/26/couture-clash-at-london-fashion-week/

Bye!