This was a good project all in all. Valuable in that it, by the time everybody had dropped out of the project, the deadline was left very so close and it meant just working litterally flat out to make it. The project did also have a lot of criteria to stick to to allow submission. It needed a business plan and a fair amount of written work just to send it off for consideration. Luckily I did have help with the business plan which was one thing I didn’t have to worry about really. It was good experience in how much is involved and the pressures and benefits of working to a real deadline. How the idea was made visual did cause a lot of problems largely due to the lack of time. The first real effort to visualise it was adequate but wasn’t really clean enough and was coupled together from hand drawn images which maybe didn’t fit with the clients needs. The second attempt was quite nice as an image and used a 3d set made from paper and photographed but after speaking with Dave Gill it was decided that it wasn’t clean and fresh enough. Finally, although it’s not perfect I went for a info graphics feel which looks a bit like the instruction images you see on the back of aeroplane seats. It’s meant to give a reduced step by step of the idea. It still needs some tweeking and it’s not axactly pretty but should suffice.
The learning outcomes were the experience of working to a strict short deadline, preparing the additional work to go with it, business plan and written description. Also the benefits of talking through your ideas with other people and getting peoples input.
