Initial Ideas Review

1. What are your 3 initial ideas? 

My first packaging idea for the bourbon biscuit was to package it in the shape of the house with a window at the side to look at biscuits inside. I created a net and then after three tries built it.

My second idea was to create a square based pyramid net wit slits on one of the sides and pile the biscuits inside like bricks.

My third idea...


2. What are you planning to do to create them?
To create my ideas i will draw the net on to card and with a blade cut out the windows and slits for the specific packaging. I will use Photoshop to create the surface design of the packaging

3. Who have you researched to develop your ideas?
I have researched Lucy Hargrave and Angus Nicholls to help me develop my ideas. Their packaging ideas have shown me different ways of how i can create packaging for foods and also there work links in with my chosen theme of obscure and covert.

4. How have you explored a range of ideas around your theme within your experiments? What are they? How have they informed your ideas?
By researching different people's packaging work it has helped me get ideas and experiment how i can create my own style. I also created mindmaps to help me get a wide range of ideas on what food i can package and find out ways to link in with my theme.

5. Have you refined/developed your ideas through experimentation? How?
My first initial idea when experimented helped me decide what the flaws were and how i could fix them by measuring the lengths of the net accurately and choosing where to put the flaps so that it will stick together and be able to stand.

6. Have you annotated, in detail, your experiments and developments in your sketchbook/blog and used this information to help you improve?

7. Which idea has been the most successful? Why?

My first initial ideas has been most successful because i like the concept of a biscuit house and how the biscuits are going to piled up like bricks
8. Which idea has been the least successful? Why?

9. Which idea do you think you will choose for your final outcome? Why?
For my final outcome i think i will choose my first initial idea because its the one i have developed the most and i like having to build a biscuit house and looking forward to create the surface design.
10. What else could you do to further develop this idea?
Look at similar products with the same packaging idea and experimenting more with different types of house nets.











 

Exhibition Review

1. Briefly explain the exhibition info, i.e. who was exhibiting? Where was it?

    The exhibition was located in oxford circus, the building was called the Photograpthers Gallery. The theme of the exhibition was collage and how photographs are organised to create different types of collages.

2. Include photographs that you have taken yourself at the exhibitions

4. Select your 2 favorite pieces of work and write about them explaining what they were about and why you liked them


5. Select your 2 least favorite pieces of work and write about what they were about and why you didn't like them

6. Conclude with a paragraph about the overall impression of the exhibition. Did you enjoy it? Has it given you ideas and inspiration for what you might study at University? or as a career? How relevant was it to your exam project? What ideas will you take forward in your own work? etc. 

In conclusion my visit to the photographers gallery was in my opinion as enjoying as i thought it would be due to the fact we had to walk up and down the stairs and stand for long periods of time. But i did enjoy the workshop at the end of the visit which helped me learn more about different collage techniques. Some of the pieces in the gallery gave me ideas on how to create different styles of collage. The techniques I learnt will help me get a variation of collage styles into my work in order to get a higher grade.