The Event

The event at Hotspur House turned out so perfectly!
While we were setting up during the day there was a bit of doubt because the large sheets of white fabric looked out of place, the floor was messy, there was stuff everywhere around us, and our garments looked weird standing alone in a messy warehouse. But once it got darker outside, turned the studio lights off, turned the music and filming lights on the entire mood of the place was set and when people started showing up it turned into a proper event.
As soon as it was dark we set the lighting up, because we waited to the evening there was nothing to distract the setting allowing us to completely control all of the lighting.
Although there was only five lights and seven of us. We had to angle the lights in such a way that every one got some. I think we should have gotten two extra lights, so each piece could have had the exact lighting they wanted. We got some jels from the AV store and started messing around with them, although only when it was very dark did they work. We got a yellow, blue and white one (which just made the lighting softer). I did experiment with the jels but the blue made it feel to cold, the yellow gave it to much of a tint, and the last one did not effect my garment at all. I ended up just using a light with no jels, the background (door) and angle of the light gave off a really nice cream colour which was the perfect shade.
Filming and the angle of the camera was a tough one, originally we tried to angle the two camera so everyone's work was in them. We had planned on keeping them still in the locations, but we could not get everyone's work in them and moved the cameras several times. We worked with two cameras to give us a variety of different angles of the event, and also double the footage so we could pick and choose shots for the film.
In our original idea we had planned on projecting our images and samples onto the large pieces of fabric and our garments. Although we could not figure out how to get the projector going. It would have been nice to have that little extra idea, but in the end the event turned out perfectly so im not particularly gutted we couldn't get it working.
The music was brilliant, David friend is a DJ and mixed us six tracks. He used modern music with older music (Happy Mondays, Gwen Steffani, Beastie Boys and many others). The tracks portrayed our concept for our project perfectly, and the beat helped set the mood for the event.
To keep with our idea of a community event, we set up a comment board where every one who was at the even wrote a thought, statement, or feeling about the pieces. This element was very small and though up at the last minute, but it added a nice little touch to really get 'the community' involved.

I personally am so happy with how everything has turned out. This was the first time I had shown my work outside of a school related event, it was stressful, annoying, and I felt like giving up at times when we were setting up and clearing everything. But in the end it was worth every minute of it, it was exiting, fun and thrilling to discuss and show our work. All the pieces worked so well together and really portrayed our concepts. It was also nice to sow our work as a group because there was that  'in it together' mentality and it allowed us to feed of each others vibes.