The School of Media and Design is gearing up for another year of Collide-O-Scope.
Until last year, the event was put on strictly by the fashion design and marketing students. The event now features work from students in interior design, communication arts and multimedia.
Fashion design instructor, Brenda Low explains that this year will have an equal representation from all four programs.
“Because Collide-O-Scope is focusing more on all of the programs, not just the fashion, we aren’t adding a whole bunch of extra elements into the (fashion) show.”
This means eliminating some of the extra work fashion students were given during their school year.
“What we’re trying to do is to incorporate the other programs,” says Low.
“For men’s wear, we incorporated architecture, for interior design, called a Tribute to Right Angles.”
Talking Movies Glamour, a 1920s style theme, inspires one of the women’s lines.
“We’re kind of involving Multimedia with that one, introducing when talking movies first came out.”
Shifting the focus of the event isn’t the only thing that’s new. The event will also host high school student work.
“We’re having two different high school competitions that we’re sending out,” says Low.
“We’re bringing in some high school students for fashion as well as film production.”
High school students who are interested will either submit a film or a garment to be judged. The submitted work will be showcased and the winner will be announced at the event.
“We’ve wanted to involve high schools for a long time, so hopefully we’ll get a good response.”
With all these new features, putting together such a large event requires lots of production time.
Second-year student Brittany Harrison enjoys the combination of creativity and business.
“To put on a show as great as Collide-O-Scope, there is a lot of work behind it,” she explains.
“We’ve been in meetings since September and are right now finalizing the theme,” adds Low.
“We have catering, we have the hall booked and we’re starting to talk about decorations and playing around with the floor plan. We are well on our way.”
Photo by Kayla Nash
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