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Designer Presentation
Description The objective of the Designer Presentation is to teach your fellow classmates about your chosen designer. You must teach your classmates how your designer got his or her start in fashion, what your designer’s signature styles are, and when your designer was designing. Ideally you should show your fellow classmates how to recognize an outfit that was designed or influenced by your designer. The Designer Presentation (and the accompanying Designer Paper, Bibliography, and Image Reference List) is worth 10 percent of your grade (as much as the Final Exam). Please contact your instructor at any time if you have any questions about the requirements or the due dates. Research You must use at least four references. • References such as books, articles, and magazines are acceptable. • Credible online sources such as the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and Women’s Wear Daily are also acceptable. IMPORTANT: Wikipedia and blogs are NOT acceptable sources. If you have questions about what sources are acceptable, please ask your instructor. • Note the citation information for each source (e.g., author, title, place of publication, publisher, and publication date), so you can include that information in your bibliography. • If you are local to San Francisco, please do not check out the books on your designer from the Academy of Art University library, as students in other sections are researching the same designer. (In lieu of checking the book out, make photocopies.) Designer Presentation (audio) Assemble the results of your research into an organized and focused oral presentation. • Your oral presentation must be between six and eight minutes long (your instructor will time it!). The best way to keep within the time limit is to practice your presentation before you record it. • Speak clearly, and do your homework to make sure you are pronouncing terms correctly (especially the designer’s name). • At the beginning of the presentation, introduce yourself and the designer with a short introduction that gives information on when the designer was popular and offers a brief statement on the designer’s signature styles or significance in fashion history. Do not open with “My designer is X, and he/she was born in 1876 . . . †— such a general statement is not an acceptable introduction. • Organize the presentation into a logical sequence that covers all important points (including responses to the five questions listed below). • Your presentation should answer the following questions: 1. Who is the designer? Where is he or she from? Where did he or she go to school or college? (This is essentially the mini biography.) 2. How and why did the designer start in fashion design, and what was his or her big break? 3. What are the designer’s signature styles? What styles is the designer well known for? (This is a very important question and affects a big part of your grade!) 4. Where did the designer find inspiration for his or her designs? 5. What is the current state of the designer’s fashion house? (If the designer is no longer living, who has taken over?) • Try to spend no more than two minutes on the mini biography, but make sure you cover the relevant parts of the designer’s personal history. • Talk about your images, and describe what makes each style shown a signature style of the designer. (Do not just show an image and make your classmates analyze it themselves. Describe each style shown in spoken words.) • Record your oral presentation as an MP3. Designer Presentation (visuals) Your oral presentation should be accompanied by relevant, well-chosen images. Your visual presentation needs to include 12 images. • At least two images must be used during the mini biography. • At least six images must show signature styles of the designer. • No more than two images may show current collections (if applicable). Obtaining images: • Scan images from books (if you do not have a scanner, find one at the library or at a local copy store). • You may need to resize the images to make them a manageable file size (generally less than 1 MB). • You may use images from the Internet, but they must be good quality and have no visible pixels. Incorporating images into a visual presentation: • Assemble images into a presentation using the format of your choice (Keynote, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Photoshop, etc.). • Organize the images in the order you discuss them in your oral presentation. • The text in your visual presentation should be limited to brief titles and captions for images (no more than 10 words per image). • Do NOT include timelines. • Make images as large as possible (to best show them). • Do not spend your time making backgrounds, borders, titles, or animations (such elements will NOT count toward your grade). • Export your finished presentation as a single PDF to be posted to the Class Discussion. Designer Paper Your Designer Presentation will be supplemented by a Designer Paper that expresses the same points you made in your Designer Presentation but does so using the written word rather than the spoken word and images. Content: • Include an introduction. • Answer the same five questions you explored in your presentation with emphasis on the signature styles of the designer. • Include a conclusion. • Use footnotes to cite all information taken from sources. • Never copy information directly from books or copy and paste information from the Internet without citation; such practices are plagiarism, and your instructor will be able to identify it! Format: • Your paper must be exactly three pages long. • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent word-processing program. • Use 1-inch margins and 12-point Times New Roman. • Double space your paper. • On the first line of your paper, type only your name, the date, and the name of designer in bold (don’t use fancy titles). Please contact your instructor at any time if you have any questions about the requirements or the due dates. Bibliography You must include an MLA-style bibliography of your sources (at least four). • You must include an MLA-style bibliography of your sources (at least four). • Use the following website to help you write your bibliography in the correct format: http://elmo.academyart.edu/research/mla.html • You can also refer to the following link to help you write your bibliography: http://www.easybib.com/ • You will need to submit a preliminary list of sources for instructor approval by the close of Module 3. Your final, formatted Bibliography is due at the same time as your Designer Presentation and Paper. Image Reference List Create a list of the images included in your presentation. • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent word-processing program to create your list. • List the images in the order they appear in your visual presentation. • Include the source (book, magazine, or website) of each image. • Include a page number for images from books. Purpose To teach your fellow classmates about your chosen designer, his or her start in fashion, his or her signature styles, and the dates your designer was active. To show your fellow classmates how to recognize an outfit either by your designer or influenced by your designer. Tools • Books, articles, or magazines for research • Microsoft Word or equivalent word-processing program for the Designer Paper, Bibliography, and Image Reference List • Scanner (or access to a scanner) • Your choice of software to assemble your images for the visual portion of the Designer Presentation (you must be able to export and post your presentation as a single PDF file) • Microphone for the audio portion of the Designer Presentation • Audio software for recording and editing sounds. We recommend Audacity®. It is free and available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. |
