Daniella Avanzi: FMP Week 7

For the final week of my final major project I began to feel under pressure to finish my final model and all my work. On Monday I continued to further put together my models, not only did I have to put together my house design but I also had to put together my pier design. Once I started getting all the pieces together ready to glue down I realised that some of my pieces that were laser cut had actually gone wrong and not cut to the correct size. This therefore, again put me under more pressure to get it all finished and at this point I felt that I was struggling to complete my model, as I had to adjust the sizes to fit. However, I did not let this affect me with my work and continued to further develop my model. I felt that I was working well with my time management at this point as I had everything organised and planned out as to when I would complete my model and other bits and pieces. However, because of the slight mix up on the laser cut I felt I needed more time. My Monday and Tuesday of the week consisted of me putting together my model and adjusting any size that needed attending to. I was happy I had it completed early on during week 7. However, I noticed that once putting the model together it began to look wonky and was weighing down to the right. It was again another size issue that was difficult to fix. I felt that this was really challenging to fix at this point as I had done 2 test laser cut to make sure the sizes were correct and did not understand why everything had started to go wrong. The main reasons for this mistake was the laser cut printing incorrectly and wished that I had done another test piece just incase. Moving on from my model, I took various photos of my model from different angles and took photos of my development/process of building it. I then decided to finalise my floor plans using Illustrator and not drawing them out again so I could visualise a more professional look. I was happy I did this as not only it looks more professional, but gives a better-detailed page of where everything goes inside the house. I quite enjoyed doing this, as it was exciting to be putting everything together and show all my designs off. I felt that I took a reasonable amount of photos. However, realised only after putting my building together that I should have taken some more of the interior side from different angles. This again, is another mistake I have made and if I could re do my model I would take more images from the inside. Nevertheless, I still found a good image I took from the inside of the kitchen. I decided to put this into Photoshop and put it into context containing the sink, hob, table etc. I was really pleased with my final design after, as I am not familiar with using Photoshop so this was challenging for me. However, after spending hours on Photoshop playing around with it I was able to produce something I was really proud of doing, especially as I didn't know how to use Photoshop at all. After this, I tried very hard to put my pier into context in my chosen location with the house design on it. I found this the hardest to do as it was difficult to place it in the right angel and put the house on as it was so zoomed out. I figured that I would have to re continue this on the weekend after taking some more photos of my pier at a good angle. After spending time on this I began to put together my presentation sheets, which was taking a long while to do, as it was hard to narrow everything down to a minimal amount for my sheets. I spent my weekend finishing off the sheets, which took some time to do but happy with the outcome. Overall, this week was by far my most stressful and time consuming week but I am really pleased with being able to complete it all and felt that I have really achieved well on illustrator and Photoshop as they are programs I am not familiar with at all and was able to learn and adjust to the programs after putting in a lot of hard work and time.