Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Decade Promenade - The Idea and Proposal

Proposal                                                     Jessica Derges K1207361

I propose to design and make a fashion based website, which runs through eras and decades, in particular the decades from 1920’s to the present day. The website will provide a guide to the most popular fashions of each era, whilst complimented with accompanying music, of the decade it represents.

Site purpose
The site’s main purpose is to be informative and creative. It will be educational in its aim to provide a walkthrough of fashion through the decades leading up to now. It also provides a history of music alongside the fashion. It will be creative in the way it provokes art within its content. I am going to attempt to hand draw fashion icons which will create an artistic take on fashion through the years.

Site inspiration/motivation
I was inspired to make a fashion style website whilst I was looking at other fashion sites, namely fashion blogs and e-commerce sites such as Topshop, Forever 21 and Boohoo.com. I decided it would be a good idea to produce a concise documentary of the history of fashion, but in an artistic manner. I then thought I could produce something fluid, which took the audience through a timeline of the history, and this could also incorporate the history of music development and changes to match the fashion. I decided on these two different aspects because I am particularly passionate about both of them, and feel I already have the knowledge behind both music and fashion over the years to successfully create my website.

Target audience/suitability
My target audience is going to be primarily females aged between 18-25. This is because I feel that a female would be more inclined to visit not only a fashion based website, but also a conceptual one. I have decided to only do female fashion through the years as this will suit a more specific target audience than choosing both male and female models. I have chosen the age group of 18-25 as I feel these are the people who are particulary interested in vintage fashion and fashion in general. More and more people are purchasing old, vintage clothes from charity shops, high street stores and markets, therefore it would be good to educate these people on the styles and fashions they are sporting, and where they derived from, making it a suitable website concept for its audience.

General website content
My website is going to be content-rich as I wish to use lots of different forms of multimedia to create it. Firstly I will be creating different doll/mannequin figures which represent the era of fashion I want to portray.

This will be set in a timeline fashion, moving through the decades from the 1920’s to the present day. Participants in the website will be able to travel through the website using arrows and directions, learning as they go about the fashion of that particular decade, through images that have been hand drawn.

Music will also accompany the fashion mannequins, giving the participant a real feel of the time that I am portraying.

Project Timeline:

Week 1: Designing and creating mood boards, updating my blog with research on the fashion era’s of the 1920’s through to the present day. I will be researching each era and the poignant fashions in each one.

Week 2: Producing a mannequin design for each decade, which is hand-drawn. Research existing websites for design ideas and layouts.

Week 3: Intricate layout design of the website, how it will work and the technicalities behind making the website. Researching Java, HTML and CSS.

Week 4: Researching and selecting music for each decade. Researching how to add this to a website.


Week 5: Website making begins.


Multi Media Productions - Proposal Final

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