On the streets of New York City

                                       On The Street: A Final Term Project

Myself, along with four other girls in my Creative Fashion Presentations class at F.I.T. were assigned to do our final semester project due Monday May 14th. The project called for a creative visual presentation that includes a press kit and a video along with it. My group decided we wanted to focus our project on the street styles of New York City. We brainstormed and thought we could go straight to the streets and interview people who we felt were wearing inspiring outfits that reflected where they were from in New York City. We split up and three of us did our interviews in Soho, and the other two girls did their interviews in Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Me and the two others in my group went straight to Soho to find some people to take photos of and get a video interview. After sometime of trying to scope out people, we not only found it hard to approach people, but we found it surprisingly hard to get them to say yes when we did ask. We found that certain ways of asking were better than others, such as making sure they were aware that we wanted a video interview, and that it was for a school assignment and not some tabloid or blog that we want to plaster all over the internet. We eventually succeeded in getting a few interviews and three pictures. We asked three women who gladly accepted the interview. They were all from Spain and were visiting New York City for some shopping. From then on getting the video interviews became easier, and after 4 hours of walking all throughout Soho, we landed four interviews, and several still shots of people who refused a video interview.

Our other two group members did so much better than we did; they were in Williamsburg, and it made me think either they had a way better tactic than we did, or the people in Brooklyn are just way cooler and friendlier (something tells me it is both). We also have a section in our video that features people that attend F.I.T. and their fashion style. We put together our video, and created a lookbook that features all the people and looks that were seen on the video. When put all together tomorrow at our presentation, we expect that it will come together very well.