Fittings...

Fittings. Something I was dreading creating a timetable for, and then when we came round to organising them I was surprised at how straight forward they were. However...nothing ever goes smoothly!
After a tutorial with our course leader, Amber and I were more clear on what we had to prepare: samples of shoes for each design (for which we are using the AUCB costume store), samples of stockings for each design, samples of accessories, for example, jewellery, ribbons and maybe some props, and a sample of the petticoat we are making ourselves for the character of Rose. The designer also wanted to have the fittings scheduled so that each design group are together, so that the group can be looked at as a whole. We decided that the best way to approach this would be to put Team Mandy on Tuesday the 29th March, and Team Will on Wednesday the 30th. We also had to account for which models and assistants would need to be in, and tried to make it as fair as possible so that each student would be fitting, modelling and assisting once each.


Reflection: This was, initially, a fairly straightforward process, simply slotting in each maker to a specific time whilst keeping the designs grouped together. However, problems started to arise when makers/models could not make their alloted times and had to change days, as this meant that the whole schedule had to be changed so that we were keeping designs grouped together. From doing this fitting schedule for the first time, I learnt that schedules have to be planned at least a week in advance to allow time for any changes to be made, and for things to go wrong! There also needs to be plenty of time for the makers/models/assistants to find out when their time is so that everyone can arrive promptly and hopefully everything can run to plan.
We have also told the makers/models/assistants to arrive at least 20minutes before their fitting time, to allow time for getting into their costume, taking photos, and pinning out any alterations which are obvious. We also have all of their contact details, so if anyone is late/doesn't show up we can get hold of them. Hopefully this will mean that everything will run smoothly and that fittings will not run over the time alloted so that the days aren't too stressful!