Making the Pocket

This was the process for making our pocket postcard.  We created two pockets from the material Lauren brought, so we could decide which looked the most authentic.

Draft

Sewing the Pocket

Sewing the Pocket

(pocket1)
Finished pocket with military style looking button

(pocket2) Finished pocket with military style looking button

Pocket to be used on postcard

 We all decided that the Olive coloured wool material was most fitting as a world war one uniform pocket :)
My Mum created the pockets

These are two real military buttons from Briar's dads collection,  we were going to use one of these. Unfortunately they were too big for the pocket so we used fake buttons from my mums sewing supplies instead.

- Shannon

Here is the completed cover postcards and the finalised backing to all our postcards.

Each will contain a brief description on what is happening on the front of the postcard and an introduction to influential people during this movement. 

The cover postcards

Here are the completed postcards, ready to be printed and have all the 3-D elements added to them.

Last night I worked on the back of the postcards, with the help of my boyfriend. Our group was inspired by the below postcards and we wanted to incorporate a similar style to the back of ours. They were all gathered from Google image gallery public domain.

 Figure One: Google, 2014

 Figure Two: Google, 2014

Figure Three: Google, 2014

This is our first draft, however we wanted to include a postage stamp and more details such as address lines and where this postcard would be made. 

As each postcard will be a collectors item, we will include cover postcards which will briefly cover the history of the The White Feather Campaign and our own perspective. These postcards will include a single 3D feather on the front with the aged background. 

Briar

Postcard Drafts

 Here are the two postcard fronts we have drafted on photograph

During today's class we were each assigned a task in completing our final project.

Lauren: Photoshopping the still images and placing the quotes in different style fonts.
Shannon: Writing up a draft synopsis, which will summarise our project
Briar: Creating our presentation on Prezi

Below is a draft outlook of our presentation, the style and how the layout will look.

Today I went to spotlight to get the materials we needed for one of the postcards, I managed to find two fabrics that were appropriate to use to make a pocket for our first postcard and got some white feathers, as we have planned to use them on a couple of our postcards as a real white feather will give the postcards a genuine WWI feel.

Image 1:  French Wool Felt in colour pistachio which cost $2.00 for 20cm
Image 2: 100% Pure Cotton in Charcoal which cost $2.20  for 20cm
Image 3: Fabric 1 shown with a Feather
Image 4: White Marabou feathers costing $7.99 for a 10g pack

Lauren