Intro to Failure:
14 classes (14 weeks) 2.5 hours per class
2 separate classes (smaller class size) - 35 hours each (70 total)
$6300 Instructor fee
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Planning and Preparation for a large project
- Documenting creative process and refining what works well in your process
- Understanding what effects 'the wrong way' has on a costume
GRADING RUBERIC:
20% - Attendance
30% - Assignment 1: Planning your project. This assignment requires a clear project description and schedule. Must be over the top, outside your depth and ability. It should be a project you feel passionate about. How do you plan to accomplish this? Include a schedule of when different stages of your project will be done.
30% - Assignment 2: Journal - Observations of mistakes made, what was the result, what would be a better method in the future. This can also be a journal documenting what worked well. For every mistake documented a solutions should be presented (though not necessarily executed) and for every success documented students should document what mistakes they avoided.
20% - Final project: No matter how horrendous the outcome the project must submitted and 'complete'. Students will present projects during class. Graded on completion not quality.
CLASS WORK (Weekly)
- Introduction & Inspiration - syllabus review overview of coursework and inspirational resources. Students will review books and magazines in class and websites to find their impossible project.
- Planning - students finalize their design and we talk about how to create a schedule to execute their project. Students begin to research to support their project.
- Patterning start: review and share plans with each other - take measurements or choose measurements you will be using. Discuss what mistakes could happen at this stage. Begin basic blocks or find template to work off of.
- Assignment 1 Due. Continue on patterns and discuss with instructor how each student will be cutting/draping/copying. Would students like to try patterning without a block? Winging it with a shape based on historical draft?
- Materials overview - what materials will we use? Buy VV fabrics for students to use. Students prepare their fabrics. - what happens if we wash fabric improperly? Iron fabric improperly? - do students have want to work with non fabric materials?
- Review each others patterns and fabric before cutting - continue pattern work or cut out fabric - discuss what mistakes can be made at this point
- Cut out patterns/plan construction: at this point students should be ready to cut out their projects and ready to start sewing by end of class.
- Construction: what finishes will be using? What mistakes have we made so far? What solutions can we gather from that (classroom discussion). Continue constructing project.
- Construction: in class construction, instructor assists.
- Construction. In class construction with assistance.
- Construction. In class construction with assistance
- Review journals with instructor, work as needed.
- Journals Due - Presentations: students present
- Presentations: students present