THE CARNIVAL - THE HUGE LANTERN

The carnival needs to be a bit of everything, it needs to be over whelming and exciting to see.

It needs to be a crazy combination of the different sculptural shapes, pattern and decoration.

Decided:

It needs to hang low.

It needs to have tassels with a lot of bells that people walk through to stand underneath the lantern.

It needs to be made up of different panels, each one different.

Its going to be a hexagon, 3 sections with 6 panels in each.

Its not going to be a light, only decorative.

It needs to have pattern.

Things to consider:

How low does it need to be? - make a mock up with calico to experiment and develop scale?

Pattern? - Use primary research to find pattern inspiration - temples, fabrics, architecture, street art. Use secondary research of the festival for inspiration from costume design.

What will it look like inside? - If someone is going to be able to standing inside the lantern it needs to be exciting and well finished on the inside as well as the outside. I could make pockets and stuff the panels to add to the texture, this would also be a fairly straight forward way to make the inside as interesting as the outside.

- Start experimenting with that on samples.