Blackpool behind the scenes, costumes and fabrics..

Blackpool Pleasure Beach gave the course a behind the scenes tour of the costume and wardrobe department, this was the real inspiring part for me as there was an extravagant range of media that gets used on all of the costumes for the shows. Hundreds of audiences on a daily basis view the famous world wide shows, and are dazzled on how amazing the costumes are, i was lucky enough to be able to see some of the costumes being made. The materials and components are what exactly make the costumes so beautiful and unique, here I was able to narrow down exactly the kind of colours that I wanted to use, and materials that would go along with this to create development work and final samples, by this visit it also inspired me for future ideas, costume making or designing a big possibility of something that I would like to go into after I have finished my degree. The above picture is components from the Blackpool archive but also my final colour pallet for my project. 

Blackpool Trip

The next stage of Unit X the whole of the Textile in practice course went on a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, we got taught the history of the amusement park including all about how the park had been passed down through a number of generations, we got told about a number of different rides, from past, present and also plans for the future, it was very exiting to hear what was going on with the park and was inspirational but in a very different way to how I was inspired by the mosi museum exhibition and archive. The qualities that I could take from this trip was the structure from the rides this created lots of lines and shapes that I could develop further into my project, showing a define link to my ideas for this project.

Mosi (museum of sience and Industry)

To start off my Unit X project, the theme that we are focusing on is fairgrounds. Brilliant timing to my project the museum of sience and Indusrty, Mosi had a special exhibition on at this time, they were displaying a wild and vibrant collection of old victorian fair ground rides. This was a great start for inspiring me because from that point I had a lot to think about from very early on, shapes, lines, colour, structure, media and materials. The first thing that I decided to do was to photograph everything that Inspired me, I later decided to choose my favourite image from the exhibition and do some quick sketches from my photos, this then gave me something to work from and could continue to develop my skills throughout the project.
The qualities that I decided to take from my first task was the colours, this would be an ideal fairground colour pallet for my unit, I also decided to focus on the lines and shapes from both my drawings and photographs, this would be something that I would then be able to continue and develop in my project and will show a clear start and finish point.