Final Evaluation

Looking back on this, I am, overall, pleased with the outcome of the Goodbye To Berlin project.  I love to learn something new and the research into 1930s Berlin has vastly expanded my knowledge. Learning about Weimar Berlin and the trends in hair and makeup during the 1930s helped me create designs that’d best represent a woman of this era.

I also enjoyed the task of working from an existent character and, with the details already provided, try to create new and innovative designs that aren’t similar to those already created.

As the designer, I feel my ability to compile informative and precise design plans has improved. This is largely thanks to continual practice as well as lessons in adapting and improving hair and face charts.

In the role of makeup artist, I feel I am better able to interpret a partner’s design based on notes and face charts. Working with my partner for this unit, the last minute issues with models and alterations in designs had me nervous and dreading the assessment. It did, however, turn out completely fine; I find the spontaneity of adapting to design alterations is a useful trait to take into the industry.

For the second part of this unit (creating the contemporary character) I found myself exploring new mediums of makeup, working with aqua and supra colours for the first time, and finally feeling confident enough to use these products in my designs.

When I started my initial research on Party Monster and the Original Club Kids, I found there was a wide range of areas I could expand my research into. However, with so many elements to factor into the contemporary character, I didn’t really know how to start.

It wasn’t until my tutorial meeting, I found a whole new muse in early 19^th century art movements that really influenced my final design plans.

Technically, I don’t feel I’ve learnt a whole lot this unit that contributed to creating historical characters, however I was able to utilize some of the taught methods into my contemporary character.

For future reference, I must try to work in a linear fashion to make my blogging journey easier. I also need to focus on incorporating my research into my designs and noting the points of reference. 

New Berliner

As a fun, final task for the Goodbye To Berlin project, we were instructed to run around Southampton, with our camera phones at the ready, to snap pictures in black and white, that best represented Modern Weimar Berlin. We were then to post our best 3 onto our Facebook group to share with each other. The images below are the 3 I chose to post. It was insightful to photograph everything from people to objects to scenery. It was also fun to work with different compositions and angles to capture the best pictures we could. Are we the 'New Berliners'? and are we are living in Modern Weimar Berlin? 

Creating Contemporary Character

These are the final images of my contemporary character, the Emcee. I am really pleased with the outcome, the design photos really well against a black background. I made a last minute amendment to my design... whilst I created my character, my course leader, Sharon, suggested I extend the brow to follow the contour of the cheek so I rounded off my model's brow into a spiral. 
I'm glad I worked the look around my model because I was able to achieve better results this way. As for room for improvement... if I were to start over, I would perhaps try and keep the curls really bouncy, securing them better with hairspray. Also, working in a warm studio and the heat of the photography light meant the supra colours were warm on the face and extra greasy to work with. I know setting them with powder is difficult (I've tried many a time) but I could look into other methods of setting supra colours.