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 

As our group would like to make some of our postcards 3D, we need to look into the style and textures of what a soldiers pocket would look like. Below are some photos of a pocket taken off a soldiers jacket.

All these photos were taken from Phillip Ingledew's Collections of War Memorabilia.

Briar

Reply back from the Imperial War Museum

Dear Briar,

Thank you for your email querying whether the IWM images require licensing.

If your use of the image is restricted to private or academic, non-commercial purposes, then you will be granted a non-commercial licence on checkout, for which there is no chargehttp://isl.iwmcollections.org.uk/myOrder/pdf/IWM_user_agreement_non-commercial_use.pdf

If your use of the image is for commercial purposes, then you will need to purchase a commercial licence, for which a fee will be charged. You can purchase a commercial licence online or via the http://isl.iwmcollections.org.uk/ImageOrderForm.pdf   You can view a copy of the commercial licence terms herehttp://isl.iwmcollections.org.uk/myOrder/pdf/IWM_terms_-_commercial_use.pdf  

Regards

Commercial Sales & Licensing Executive
Image Sales and Licensing

Finalised Postcards

Today in class we finalised our five postcard designs, they will be as follows:

1: Postcard featuring an image of a soldiers uniform, we are going to use real fabric to texturise the postcard as well as a white feather in the pocket of the uniform. This postcard will include the quote "Thanks very much, we don't get pipe cleaners very often in the trenches"- Pte Norman Demuth

2: This postcard will feature images we have manipulated on photoshop of both Mary Augusta Ward and Admiral Fitzgerald (Founders of the White Feather movement) with the following explaining who they are: " 

3. The third postcard will feature two images of Vesta Tilley, representing her two personas along with her song lyrics:

 But now your country calls you to play your part in war.And no matter what befalls youWe shall love you all the more. From the Song, Your King and Country Want You written by Paul Rubens (1914) 

4: Propaganda Poster, assuming we gain permission to modify the poster we have selected we will turn the "We Want You" poster into a propaganda poster directed at women with the following quote: 

"The Young Women of Lon don," the mayor asked: "Is your 'Best Boy' wearing Khaki? ... If not don't YOU THINK he should be? If he does not think that you and your country are worth fighting for-do you think he is worthy of you?" - Lord Major of London 

5. The final postcard will feature and image of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested along with quote from Nicoletta Gullace (Author and Associate Professor of History) who describes the White Feather campaign and the actions of women during  the campaign as a "monstrous distortion of femininity" 

As one of the images we need for our postcard has copyright restrictions I have been in contact with the Imperial War Museum to see if we can gain access to this image. The below email was sent off on Tuesday 20th May 2014. Hopefully a response will be sent soon.

Hi there

I am currently a student at Unitec in Auckland, New Zealand. I am  researching for a project on The White Feather Movement during World War One and was wondering if we could use the image 'Your Country Needs You’ by Alfred Leete in a series of postcards. The image will not be released to the public just to our lecturer as part of our final assignment. 

Any question please feel free to be in contact with me. 

Thanks 
Briar

Above are some of the ideas we had for the front and back of our postcards on the many perspectives of the White Feather Movement. We still need to finalise the top 5 ideas and what will be placed on the back, in regards to quotes and a brief description of what is happening in the picture on the front. 

Briar

Here are some old articles from the NYU Historical newspaper database.
I think these will be helpful with our postcards.
As I am unable to upload PDF files to this blog. I have added them to our joint assignment gmail google Docs account, To access the files, you sign into our gmail and click on the links posted below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jZTWpjsQsveGQ2N09hRkZFSHc/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jZTWpjsQsvMFZLQTdjRVBWVTg/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jZTWpjsQsvdXM4VHQ3c2V5ODg/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jZTWpjsQsvS0hsT0g4YkZTRmM/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jZTWpjsQsvUW45d01zbEYxMkE/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jZTWpjsQsvcUE1a1lPa1ZkUE0/edit?usp=sharing


Here is also a good link to a recent article on the White Feather Movement
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/11/first-world-war-white-feather-cowardice


- Shannon :)

Under further research I have found some great website which include articles and clippings on The White Feather Movement.

“Thanks very much. We don’t get pipe cleaners very often in the trenches.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments/a-history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments-white-feather-for-winner-of-victoria-cross-9352952.html

Also as the White Feather Movement was seen in the first season of Downton Abbey and the below blog post explains further:

http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/downton-abbey-2-the-symbolism-of-the-white-feathers/

Briar

Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald (Admiral Fitzgerald) a vice admiral in the Royal Navy and Mary Augusta Ward an Australian author were the brains behind creating the White Feather movement. It was surprising that a man created this campaign but very typical of this time period that women were exploited to put it into action.

Lauren 

Proposed Ideas

Idea One:Postcards
The many perspective of different affluent people during this time on the White Feather Movement.

Idea Two:Postcards
Starting off the postcards with Vesta Tilly dressed as woman with white feathers, going through the progression of how this movement was manipulated through mens abusive power and ending with Vesta Tilly dressed as a man.

Idea Three: Imovie
Chess game, all are woman during the white feather movement. The two men are in control of the chess pieces and are dictating what actions these woman should make. The chest board is in comparison to a battlefield, while our men are away fighting for there country, woman are fighting back home for their own rights.

Idea Four: Showcasing a pure white feather at the beginning of the movie, the white feather transcends across all shots in the background as a constant reminder and ends in the final shot, dirty and torn, giving the audience the feeling this item has caused unnecessary bloodshed.

After discussion with Nina on the above ideas, her main message, was simplicity is key. Refer back to our original idea with the post cards and the different perspectives on the white feather movement. Each postcard will have a white feather present, in the back ground or as the main focus of attention.

here is an interesting article about the white feather movement - 

The White Feather Campaign: A Struggle with Masculinity During World War I

this article is helpful with our idea of using a chess board and how woman were 

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/151/the-white-feather-campaign-a-struggle-with-masculinity-during-world-war-i

- Shannon

Here are some interesting and hopefully helpful videos for our project. :) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIndoWEkaU - 

Pankhurst - The White Feather Betrayal of History

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOnMFO21c6Y - 

You are the cowards here!  Downton Abbey clip featuring

the white feather movement

- Shannon 

During our Tuesday class, we allocated the following roles to make sure the work load is shared equally. We have created a timeline to ensure our final assignment is completed by the deadline.

12 May-18 May
Within this week we all need to continue our research on the white feather movement and postcard designs during World War One.
There are a few things we need to finalise this week

• Number of postcards (SHANNON)
• Storyline throughout the postcards (ALL)
• Blurbs/quotes on the postcards (BRIAR)
• Pictures that we can use (copyright free) (LAUREN)

19 May- 25 May
Each of us will draft sketch a set of proposed idea's to incorporate into our postcards. We will finalise each postcard this week and begin creating them.

• Fabric store (buy materials to use on our postcards) (ALL)
• Finalise the style of writing to be used (SHANNON)
• The texture of the postcards (BRIAR)
• The photo's we will use (LAUREN)

26 May- 1 June
Within our last week, before we present our project, the written synopsis, which summarises and justifies our project will be group written. If time allows we will also produce a small detailed iMovie that will contribute  to our use of digital technology, this will also follow a brief storyline of our postcards. (TBC)

• Final group presentation slideshow (possible use of Prezi) (ALL)
• Final group written assignment (ALL)
• Hard copies/ duplicate copies of our postcards made (ALL)

Here are more images from our trip to the Auckland War Memorial Museum
I was previously unable to upload these earlier.
These souvenirs were collected during WW1 from postcards and placed in a souvenir book

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

(Auckland War Museum, 2014)

- Shannon

Vesta Tilley on Youtube

When I began researching further into the White Feather movement I found a link to a Great War Interview from BBC. The woman being interviewed is Mrs Katie Morter who's husband was recruited by Miss Vesta Tilley and in 1915 was posted to battle in France.

Morter, K. (1960). The Great War Interviews (2of13) (BBC Collections). (BBC, Interviewer)

We have since decided to direct our research more towards The White Feather movement and female patriotism. We will be telling our story through postcards telling the story of the White Feather movement  from the female perspective.

Lauren 

I was previously in email contact with Nina and she emailed me through some postcard ideas for our project.

Here is Nina's email

"Hi Shannon,

I had an idea to pass on to your group-you could also use the textures of WWI as another unifying device for your postcards. For example, you could have the military uniform textures as one, an embroidered postcard as another, silk as another.

Nina"

- Shannon

McNicol Homestead Museum

On Sunday while I was in Clevedon, I visited the McNicol Homestead Museum and coincidentally came across some items from World War One. Postcards, uniforms, books etc.
There was a whole room dedicated to memorabilia from both world wars. I took pictures of the following items as I thought they may be of use to us...

Postcard, (n.d) Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland 

Postcard, (n.d) Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland

Image of soldiers badges, (n.d)  Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland 

Image of soldiers water bottle, (n.d)  Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland 

Image of World War books, (n.d)  Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland 

Image of New Zealand Navy Jacket worn during WWI, (n.d)  Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland 

Image of New Zealand Navy Jacket worn during WWI (2), (n.d)  Image taken at McNicol Homestead Museum, Auckland

Lauren 

Here are some photos from when we went to the museum on Wednesday .

Postcards

Christmas Greeting (front) (Auckland War Museum, 2014)

Christmas Greetings (Back) (Auckland War Museum, 2014)

United Postcard (Front)  (Auckland War Museum, 2014)

United Postcard (Back) (Auckland War Museum, 2014)

I've got more to images to post, but they keep turning upside down. I will post the photos of the souvenir book tomorrow

This is the link of the WW1 memorabilia place in Henderson. they also sell uniforms from the wars http://www.milimem.com/

Another place we could look at is 'Just plane interesting' it is an weird little antique store in Oratia that sell all kinds of antiques and a lot of other weird stuff but hopefully they have some stuff from WW1
http://www.justplaneinteresting.co.nz/

http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/postcards-writing/world/auction-727653976.htm - These old postcards from 1911 could also be quite useful - we could use the backs of them with the writing  $1.00 isn't a bad price either :)

Shannon

Since our visit at the Museum on Thursday, I found the detailing and the style of postcards from World War One really fascinating. Some where hand drawn, with messages of well wishes and seasons greetings. Others included photographs or paintings or even a comical message to loved ones back home. I think incorporating all these styles into our storyline of postcards will add more depth to  our project and show a true reflection of the era. The internet has quite a few websites on War postcards which will help us and give us more guidance.

Below are a few links I found really useful and showed a wide variety of postcard ideas we could use.

http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/postcards.htm

http://www.libraryofbirmingham.com/silkembroideredpostcards

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2558442/Photo-journal-WWI-soldier-one-survive-Battle-Somme-unearthed-Cornish-charity-shop.html

Also found a section on Ebay with silk postcards for sale, as making these look rather technical and hard we could always re-use one of them, as more of a collectors item.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/ww1-silk-postcard

Briar

Today, we all met up at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to gather more information on our topic and postcards during 1915.
Below are some interesting photographs of postcards during the First World War.

 Figure One: White Feather Movement (Fenton, Lord, McLean, & Shoebridge, 2013)

 Figure Two: White Feather Movement (Fenton, Lord, McLean, & Shoebridge, 2013)

 Figure Three: I'm Thinking of You (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

 Figure Four: I'm Thinking of You (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

 Figure Five: Christmas Greetings (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

Figure Six: Christmas Greetings (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

 Figure Seven: Happy Christmas (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

 Figure Eight: Happy Christmas (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

 Figure Nine: Happy Christmas (Auckland Institute and Museum Library, 2014)

 Five Ten: Untitled (Roberts, 2008)

 Figure Eleven: Canada Finds a little dog in Hun Trenches and presents it to Nurses (Roberts, 2008)

 Figure Twelve: A Covering movement by the Right wing to protect the rear.  (Roberts, 2008)

Figure Thirteen:  A Covering movement by the Right wing to protect the rear. (Roberts, 2008)

 Figure Fourteen:  Postcard Century 1915 (Phillips, 2000, p. 94)

Figure Fifteen: The Military Miss, Prepared to Face Powder (Phillips, 2000, p. 94)

Numerous postcards included textures from the paper to hand embroidery used on the front. Others included real life photographs or paintings with quotes attached, giving us a range of styles to recreate.

Briar

References:

Auckland Institute and Museum Library. (2014). Ephemera Collection. Auckland.

Fenton, D., Lord, C., McLean, G., & Shoebridge, T. (2013). New Zealand and the First World War 1915-1919. Auckland: Penguin.

Phillips, T. (2000). The Postcard Century. New York: Thames & Hudson .

Roberts, A. (2008). Postcards from the Trenches: Images from the First World War. Oxford: Bodleian Library.