3D day 1

Day one of 3D pathway consisted of us doing small simple drawings e.g drawing your house number then being able to produce something much different out of it e.g using this house number to create a kettle. In doing these small simple exercises I discovered that you can actually create or design something without realising or having an idea in mind and that this method was a clever and quick way to form ideas. 

Our second task of the day was to create a 3D building using only one sheet of A1 paper and only one strip of tape the same length as half your arm. This had to be 20 cm tall and be able to hold down a water bottle filled to the top with water.  I found this to be a difficult task to complete as I knew it had to hold down a bottle of water which seemed impossible to complete. However, it was exciting to do a challenging task and was interesting to know what the outcome would be.  

Our final task of the day was to build something 30 cm high with 4 pieces of card that I could either stand on, sit on, or lay down on. I decided to work in a pair so we was able to use more card, however we now had to fit both of us onto whatever we decided to create. We decided to build a sofa for both of us to sit on, however this was not strong enough to hold both of us down. After a lot of trial and error of us trying out different positions in able to fit us both on we discovered that the only way would be for us to sit on each other but in doing this we could only last on the sofa for about 5 seconds. However, we also discovered that it was more than strong enough to hold just one of us up, so I was able to sit, lay and stand on it with out falling. 

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This is a photo of me standing on our final piece, showing that it is stable and strong enough to be able to stand on.

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This is a photo showing the inside of our piece. We have rolled up 7 pieces of card to fit inside the sofa shape in order to keep it tight and stable. I think in doing this it was a successful thing to do but also unsuccessful as it was unable to hold both of us up. I think a better way to improve on this is to create something more square than round and have more points touching the ground so its supported more. 

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This is a photo showing that my structure is holding up the water bottle without breaking. However, it has slightly shrunk but overall did hold up the water bottle and was quite stable. I found this task to be a successful one as I had limited amount of paper and tape to use and managed to still hold up the water bottle. It was an interesting one to do as I was not 100% sure about what the outcome would be so was exciting to find out what would happen. 

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 This is a photo of my structure with light held on to it and a small person made out of blue tack beside it. The reason for this is to make it look architectural as if my structure was a big building next to this person. I really enjoyed photographing this as it makes something rather simple look quite interesting to look at and gives you ideas in general about sculptures.

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I took this photo from the top facing down to show the shadows of the structure and also the detail at the top and again showing the person beside it. I felt happy with my achievement as I thought my structure was rather simple and could have been more difficult and interesting but when taking a photograph I was happy with what I had achieved and how much lighting can make a difference when taking a photo.

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This is another photo of my structure, I really like this one because I have the light just shining on the structure and the small person and it is blacked out from behind. In doing this it makes the viewer focus on the structure completely and the person and really observe the detail within the photo.

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This is an image of me using one of the exercises we had done in todays task to create a new iPod. I decided to do a squiggle on the page and then formed a shape of an iPod with a screen showing the music playing, buttons to change the songs, pause stop and play the music and also added in a memory stick which could contain word documents or pictures. In doing this short exercise I had invented a new iPod which no body would have seen before and also included it to have a memory stick inside.

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drawing a man, then changing it into our favourite animal. 

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Writing out our house number, then changing this into a kettle.

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drawing our favourite item of clothing, then changing this into a lamp

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designing out our own shopping centre with restaurants, toilets, shops and car parks

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drawing out our favourite fruit and then turning this into a rabbits cage 

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drawing a square, triangle and circle and then turning this into a car

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Drawing 10 dots onto the page to then designing a floor plan of a 2 bedroom house connecting the dots. This was a fun exciting task to do because we had no idea what we was creating but just had a starting point to draw dots and then formed a floor plan of a 2 bedroom house. 

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Drawing the design of the back of our shoes to then changing this into a piece of jewellery 

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Drawing two identical shapes together to then turn this into a pair of shoes.