I don't know if it was because I studied costumes, so the study abroad process is so drama, after applying, I actually received an email from the examiner, asking me why I didn't go to the costume college, to apply for Leeds...
I came to Hanyi this thing is also very drama, the cause is my mother took the bus, the result of the traffic jam, she heard the person in front of the person on the bus on the phone, said: "Your child is going to study abroad, we Can hanyi here ..."
My mom thought to myself: Hey find a study abroad institution! Then come back to a total, I came to Hanyi.
Really, I was a student who had never felt the love of the teacher before coming to Hanyi, so I couldn't overstate it.
In fact, at the beginning, I was also learning to dress in Chinese art, but during that time, the teacher was also uncomfortable, and I was also uncomfortable.
Then one day, the teacher said to me: I am reflecting on why we have spent so much time together, and your work is still not biased towards the costume a little.
Folio creation in progress
Later, I transferred to Teacher Hou's student, and then I felt that I had met an angel.
There are contradictory parts of my personality, on the one hand, I have opinions and stubbornness, I always want to do a lot of bold designs, and from time to time I want to add wire to my clothes, and the school teachers have been too lazy to stop me.
But on the other hand, I have a bit of inferiority, such as qingmei clothing design is still practical and promotional, teachers may appreciate my creativity, but will always point out that "your path is wrong". Coupled with the fact that my professional grades were relatively average when I was in CAFA High School before, I would wonder if I was really not good enough.
In Hanyi, I can finally add wire to my clothes
But here in Teacher Hou, I felt love and encouragement, and doing projects was a smooth sailing as never before. First of all, I may have finally found a suitable major for me, but the most important thing is that Teacher Hou is too patient and gentle!
I've never seen her get angry with anyone, and at best she laughs and says, "Oh, how did you make it like this?"
Make a flower for the teacher~
The five projects I applied for to study abroad were basically done with Teacher Hou, among which Teacher Liu also helped me a lot, and I must praise it.
For example, one of the lines in my work collection is that the proportion of the stage is getting higher and higher, and the last project done in the summer camp, the concept of the theater is completely open, and the venue is set in a glass box on the somerset house square, at which time the boundaries between the stage and the audience, the actors and the audience are blurred.
This is the inspiration from the teacher.
Project done at summer camp, "Macbeth"
When Leeds first started school, the professor asked us to introduce a piece of his own work, I talked about this, at that time the professor was really unusual - often - interested, felt that he was going to accept me on the spot as a doctoral student, I guess it was a little surprised, how this student has not yet studied graduate school to know what they are studying haha.
The inspiration for my first project came from the movie "Falling In", in fact, the film itself is very magical and surreal, the story recall fantasy is really mixed together, the overall tone contrast is particularly obvious, and the costumes are also very exaggerated.
Movie "Falling"
But when I did it, I didn't do the opposite at all, but did it more exaggerated than this - the final product is a special "fried", which is the kind that the teacher will hit people when he sees it, but Teacher Hou said: Well, it is completely OK.
These costumes are all made by myself, and these costumes are all made by myself
I also have a project about "Oedipus King", which is a return to classical opera, in which I add elements of Shikazu Kawa and Araki Keisuke, adding a lot of prints and bright colors (printing is too expensive 555),
That's the project
If I want to evaluate my own portfolio, it is also quite crazy and exaggerated, but I still do a very rigorous preliminary research, and the theory taught to me by the teachers of Chinese arts is the foreshadowing.
Learn ing
I was obsessed with the theory, which may be evident in the portfolio, so I received the email asking me: You said you wanted to be a fashion designer in PS, so why don't you go to the fashion college, but choose the University of Leeds, where you want to study a lot of theory?
Then I wrote a very long reply.
I said, I noticed that british colleges and universities used to have costume design as a major, but now it's changed to performance design, and I think that's a shift in cognition – everything about theatre, including costumes, is an inseparable whole.
Although I am a costume professional, I need to know everything about the stage
Now that I'm familiar with the teachers, I think this email is hhhhh written by our subject leader like her tone.
I feel that the teachers of Leeds prefer students with philosophical speculation skills, so students, do the portfolio must add their own ideas, a mature artist is to use the brain ~ ~
The professor sent us an email with a list of books he recommended
The post-drama, scenography, which we are now studying, is a very complex and pluralistic system, and the non hierarchy advocated by the British side is to remove the hierarchy in the drama, not only the text, the visual department and various other elements are equally important, each of which can become the protagonist.
That is to say, in the future, whether you learn costumes or other things, you must take into account the overall situation.
Photos of the class
The professor has shown us a broken piano, and the various parts of the piano are working independently, which can be seen as an inhuman stage actor.
I also volunteered in the theater some time ago and have been asked questions from morning to night, such as what is your view of money? What is your profession? Where do you usually travel? Then on the day of the performance, there are painters, models, fish sellers, etc. in the performance space, and the audience can also ask them questions at will, and then the status of the audience changes.
I went to leeds play house as a volunteer
I've really learned so much since I started school in late September, and I feel like one of the better things about our major is that I have the freedom to decide what I want to study.
Teachers also pay great attention to interdisciplinarity in class, for example, when we are doing projects, some students in the same class may learn photography and some people learn architecture, some people learn directing and some people learn screenwriting.
Or a photo of the class
I'm still busy studying, but the teachers seem to like me a lot and ask me if I'm interested in doing research with them.
I still want to read PHD at present, and it is possible that I will be cross-professional, so I am really lucky to come to Leeds, because the master's degree is in a comprehensive university, and if you have a certain theoretical research experience during your studies, it will be helpful for the later application for the expo.
The photo is the Textile College where Zhang Guorong studied
I remember that when I was in Qingmei, my teacher told us that our department had the highest rate of going abroad in the whole school. Now that I think about it, those students who, like me, want to break through the limitations of their original major, want to contact other fields, and learn more different things, may just want to cobble together a favorite major for their own diy.
Like me, when I doubt myself because I am incompatible with others, it is Teacher Hou and other Hanyi teachers who give me affirmation and give me the courage to insist on doing what I think is right.
So here, I also want to pass on this courage to my classmates, to accept and embrace my own reality, to learn what I like to do, and to do what I love
If you have questions about art study abroad & Research & Portfolio & Shenbo, you can ask Mr. Kang Shishi again.