Blog 26: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

I am most proud of the knowledge that I have gained in my senior project as well as how I was able to covey it thought my 2-hour presentation. I view to knowledge to make and construct a wedding dress what I am most proud of because it is a knowledge that I can use later in life just besides making wedding dresses.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

When I was able to get a mentor to complete my senior project, my mentor ship would be what worked best for me. I was able to get first hand experience which helped greatly when I was doing my 2-hour presentations.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

 

I would change my beginning research. Towards the end of the research checks I was able to find really good research and if I was able to go back, I would start by hitting the library where I found most of my good research.

(5) Finding Value

With my product as communication and my future job having to do with communications and translations my senior project has helped in that aspect. I have had trouble with the nevsre and presentation but by the time two hour come I was able to cope and complete the task.

With the overall use of a mentor ship, it helps give an aspect as well as to how to work with overs that will be a higher job status as well as with bosses. Mentorship gives aspect of how the job network will work in the future.

Blog 25: Mentorship

Log:

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Contact 
·     Ms. Joanne Mouser 
          Number: (562) 665-4263

  

What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

The most important experience that I have gained from working with my mentor would be the over all construction of the wedding dress.  I view this as a important experience gained because wedding dresses are not as simply put together as a normal dress. That is common knowledge, yes but when you really get to work on one, then you start to understand that why something that may seem like it would take a few days can take weeks or why a wedding dress is priced the way it is. Working on the dress has also as well taught me much about time management as well as how to talk with others when focusing on what they may know then to what you may know.

 

  How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

Working with my mentor has greatly helped with answering my Essential Question because I got first hand experience with working with my answers. With sewing and tailoring I was able to work with her in alter a dress as well as sewing particles on to the dress, wither it was with hand sewing or machine sewing. With embellishment I was able to browse thought mulitable types of embellishment and discuss about where each would go and work, as well as place on to a dress. With clientele was able to view the interview process and see how the bride would be as well as get to understand how you would be able to get the likes and dislikes of the brides taste for her gown.

Blog 24: Exit Interview Questions

(1) What is your essential question?  What is the best answer to your question and why?

My essential question is what is the best way a seamstress can create a "gorgeous Wedding dress"? I Am and have been studding my three answers to my essential question which are sewing and tailoring, embellishment, and last clientele.

For me, my best answer is clientele because to make the brides dream dress come true you have to be able to work best with her. As stated with  Martha Steward, she noticed that brides that new their designers had dresses that better suited them then other brides. As well as with working with my mentor, that you have to understand what the bride see's and knows to better get what she wants, You have to be the translator for the bride and the dress. For Clientele being my best answer, I feel that it best ties in with the wedding theme as well as a counts to my essential questions, as well as ties in to my product.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

To arrive to my answer for my essential question I first had to  pick a topic, my topic of choice was wedding dresses, which over the senior year, was made into my essential question: What is the best way a seamstress can create a "gorgeous Wedding dress"? I came to this topic of how much I enjoyed looking at wedding gowns and how I do research on my own before the project. In the process of my essential question being formed I had first thought that it would not be design yet shop runing for I had a Davids Bridal near where I lived, yet I was filled with problems with them but yet I still found mentorship, just with a custom wedding gown designer then with a shop, and my essential question was formed.

After my essential question was formed, next came the finding the answers to my essential questions. My first answer was Sewing and tailoring. This answer was formed because for a gown to appear it has to be made and fitted to the bride, to do this you must be able to know who to sew and tailor a dress which is what a seamstress knows. My second answer is embellishment because I noticed that the was a line between to little and to much that was designers stride for. In muilt books and magazines that I read, they would talk about the embellishment and its importance for making the personality of the the dress to the way it best bought out parts of the bride. My last answer was clientele. Clientele was formed because you need to be able to understand the bride and she needs to understand what is happening to her dress.

With all my answers coming to be, next in the process would be the best answer. My best answer would be clientele. I view clientele as my best answer because you are working together to make a brides dream dress come to life. I feel that it really ties in my other answers as well into my essential question.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

Problems that I had faced with my topic would one be that I had a topic change. This change was due to the problems that I was facing with the first topic. I was having trouble at the time looking for a mentor and was not enjoying my topic as much. I resolved the mentorship problem by changing my topic from video game design to wedding dress design.

Another problem that I had faced would be when first searching for articles for my topic, I one, wasn't sure where to began the search or what truly to search for, and two, was finding articles themselves for I found a lot of helpful blurbs. The resolve of both problems was the same, when my essential question came to form and my answers would made, I was able to look for one answer at a time and the articles were picked based if it best matched my essential question. In the end, I found books to be the most helpful to finding research for my answers.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

My first most significant source is my mentor Ms. Joanne Mouser. My mentor is an important source to my essential question because she is giving my first hand experience on making custom wedding dresses. She goes over the bride talks to the sew and tailoring of the dress, to of course the embellishment of the gown.

My second most significant source is a book called The Wedding book, by Mindy Weiss with Lisbeth Levine. This book is a important source for me because it went into detail of all parts of the dress, head to  toe, as well as explained may parts of the construction of the dress.

(5) What is your product and why

My product is the translation of the dress to and bride and the bride to her dress. I view  this as my product because with custom wedding dress, you are working with the bride to where you need to be able to communicate what it is that the bride wants on her dress in to terms that are correct, as well as communicate back to the bride what each and every term of the dress means.

Blog 23: 2014 Interview

1.  Who did you interview and what house are they in?


Kimberly Gallardo, West House.



2.  What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

I was planing on having my senior project on criminology or forensics because I find them to be fascinating.

3.  What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentorship experience?


I plan to go to a police station and have them tell me more about the topic as well as help find where I needed to be placed.

4.  What do you hope to see or expect to see in watching the 2013 2-hour presentations?

I want to see how they organized the project and how the final out comes in to place.

5.  What questions do you have that I can answer about senior year or senior project (or what additional information did you tell them about senior year or senior project)?

• She had no questions but she wanted to wait and see how the year would progress.

Blog 22: Final 3-Column Chart

Please Click Here to view the Final 3-Column Chart on a Google Doc.

Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Jeanette du Plessis, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

 (b)People who help me complete my Independent component were Sydney T., Clara A., Jada H., Dolores R., and Danielle M. 

(c)Please look to the side of the blog or Click here!

It is under the Independent component 2.

(d) I made five wedding dresses the size for an doll and they were designed by five "brides" in the year. I designed and made the dress they requested (try to). Last I photoshoped the dresses onto the girls.

INTERPRETIVE

My independent component works with my three answers by, Clientele: I had five brides to which I listen to what they wanted and I have more then one way to understand what it was that they wanted for their dress. Sew and tailoring: not much tailoring but the sew of the dresses together to fit the doll. Embellishment: I had to make sure I would balance all the add on that was needed when I was drawing out the dresses that they had created. 

This project lasted 30 hours because of the major of sewing of the dresses as well as the hand sewing of the embellishment that took awhile.  Every part needs to be done one at a time so the hours add up.

Links to 30 Hours Proof:
Day 1 
Day 2 and 3 
Day 4 and 5 
Day 6 
Last Day 

APPLIED

Liked stated with my Interpretive, the independent component work with my three answers to answer my EQ. The answer that I think that it helped the most would be clientele. At my mentorship I don't talk to the brides, my mentor does, so in this case I got to do one on one interviews and magazine views with them to see how they want the dresses done. When drawing before making the dresses I had confirmed the dresses by the girls to make sure that I was able to get what they were looking for in the dress. I did not get the opionon of the final product but when working with a bride on a true dress the independent component help show that you should be with the bride throught the processes.
It also helped greatly with the research done on embellishment because I got to try most of what I read on the how to with the dresses, as well got to see how best to balance the dress with the embellishment. Like an example would be working on the beading of the gowns. beading was something that I had never done before and with the mermaid I was trying hard to figure out the best way not to make the beading over crowed.

Last Day of Ind. Comp.

Photoshop complete, the colour is off because of picture quality and sleeves had to stay on because I am not that good at photoshop to make it look like they are not wear jackets. 

Note: Clara's picture didn't come up so only she doll dress is showing.

Trust me the dress is white it just looks yellow because of the light use to take the picture.

This is Clara's dress.

For some reason the picture didn't show the fullness of the dress.

Jada's dress.

The picture was really dark because of the light it was used in and I was editing on PS but this was the best I could get it.