Group Meeting

We are getting quite close to our filming deadline, so we had a meeting today in the art cafe about possible models and locations we could use.
Here are some of the topics we discussed at the meeting...

Models...

Hannah has been emailing a few contacts to see if we could use a life model as we ideally want a woman of between 50-70 to wear our knitted sculpture. However they all charge quite a lot of money per hour and we cannot pay through the university so we decided against that idea. We then asked a few of the older women on the textiles course but as they are all busy completing their own unit x briefs they could not give up a full day to help us film. So we ave decided that we need to ask family members to see if any of them would be willing to model. Melissa's grandma is around the right age and lives fairly close to the university, so she is going to ask her if she would be free to participate in our film. If she can't do it, then Melissa's sister works in a care home and has said that she will ask a few of the residents if they would be able to do it instead.

Location...

Because our knitted mound is already going to be very textured and sculptural, we have decided that we need a clean studio space to film in. Martin is now in charge of booking one of the university studios for the 10th May to film in, then him and Laura can edit over the weekend to have the film done by Monday 13th.

Knit...

We are going to assemble the mound on the 7th so the fashion and textiles girls are going to produce as much knitting as possible over this weekend ready for tuesday. We are doing a combination of arm knitting, finger knitting, hand knitting, machine knitting and found garments in a variety of materials. We are going to source some knitted items from charity shops over the weekend and bring in any of our own jumpers and cardigans to add volume to the mound.