Unit 2: Shawlands Primary School Reading for Fun Project Evaluation.

I have mixed feelings about this project and this has made look at how I would approach this type of project in the future.

The brief was a competition to design either something for a sensory room or the library. I chose the library which consisted of a wall and two display boards and the brief was to encourage reading for fun.

We were given a talk by the staff from the school plus a power point. We were told the budget and constraints and the money came from parents fundraising.

I feel that the project was to show us a look at real life working and also how to be professional. However, I feel that the school were not exactly helpful in some cases. It took them ages to even provide dimensions of the boards and wall and how they can expect you to plan and budget without this key piece of information makes me wonder. It also has made me realise that if you take on project work like this you need lots of key information before you even do research, in other words basic planning.

I feel that if I would have had this information before I would have been able to plan better and more effectively.

I also did not like how the budget was split as it to me the wall will be more expensive than the two display boards. I think this should have been part of the project and would have been more useful for me to decide and to split the budget and show why.

I did some rough costings and looked at Viking Direct, Art and Craft websites and decided that I would be better trying to recycle and looking on eBay.

I enjoyed looking at the books and I think this as the best part of the project as you have to look at more than what appeals to you. Questions I had to ask include, will it appeal to both boys and girls? What about the ages? Is it popular or classic?

An example of popular is that at the moment Frozen is popular with young girls, when I was age 8 it was Arial from Little Mermaid, when my mum was young it was Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

I decided to go for classic as if the school was on a tight budget then hopefully what I chose would have lasting appeal. I think it would have been better if the school had provided a book list with a small selection as I found it a vast area tor research and I think this took time away from actual planning and drawing.

I enjoyed doing the research and drawings on books which appealed to me and I found that in real life I am also going to have to do work that does not appeal to me but I am going to have to be consistent in my approach to all projects, particularly if I want to make a living in this area of work.

I have enjoyed some aspects of this project particularly in doing favourite books and characters. I have enjoyed doing the camp scene as it gives me free rein in my creativity but I do not think the school has been helpful. I found it unfair that the school phoned up after three weeks in the project to say that Adventure Time was not suitable. In real life if I had been working on this and they had not given me clear instructions this would me I would have had to scrap all this work. It also means that I would have been rushed to finish this on time and it may make me late starting other projects, which may think clients think I am unreliable or lazy.

I think I have produced some good pieces of work but what has let me down again is planning and then focusing on small targets.

I have enjoyed most of the work but if this had been a real work project I would get the school to give me more clear information about what they do/don’t want and key information such as measurements.

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