So I have finished my final show and I have got to say that I am very proud of it. All of the content that I had on show looked great and they all clearly showed the skills that I had learned this year.
The one thing that let me down however was the whole design of the board, the way everything is laid out is how I imaged it but compared to my other piers boards I believe that it did not look as good. A lot of my piers boards had their own design that fit along side one of there projects while mine does not really show a particular theme and follow one project. I think if I ever was to create my own board to display something ever again I would have to make it clear what I am showing to people so that people clearly understand straight away what i am trying to get people to look at the most.
This did not stop people from coming over and looking at my board. I had quite a lot of people read some of the things on the board and ask me a few questions about how I made something, why I chose to do certain things. A lot of people also came up and navigated my site. I got some feedback from some people telling me what they liked and things that didn't work so well. My shadow book was also picked up by some people and they tried it out for themselves.
I think that next time I would invite more employers to the event, many of the people that I invited either were busy or just did not show up. This made me quite sad that I could not show them what potential I have and talk to them in detail about the many things I have done. Even if I got one of two employers to show up I think that it would have made my experience at the show ten time better.
So after we had finally completed our FMP we now had the job to organise and plan our own final year show. This show was to show friends, family and employers what we had done over the past two years at college. This meant that we had to take a lot of thought into what we were going to show and how we were going to present it.
So I decided to talk to my lecturer about some of the many options that I had available to me. We talked about the many things that I could include on my board. I really wanted to get this figured out first because then I could think about how I am going to design my board afterwards.
From the get go I had a plan to make my board focus more on web design and show the examples that I had done in the past. I wanted to do this because it is an area that I really enjoy doing and is something that I want to peruse in the future. This also meant that I could talk to parents and maybe employers about what I had learnt through the years and explain to them the areas I have improved in the most.
Obviously I wanted to show my FMP on my board, but on a computer so people could interact with the site and get a feel for it first hand. Luckily there was internet where we based our final year show but I decided to plan a plan B just encase I didn't have access to it. I also wanted to show my shadow book, I chose to show this because I am very proud of this piece of work and I really had a lot of fun using the laser cutter and designing the whole thing. I also wanted to show my museum leaflet. Even though this wasn't the best thing I had made over the 2 years it is something that I enjoyed doing. Working with an employer and working around the criteria that they gave us was something that we had never done before and I wanted to show people how I did in this area. I also had plans to include my interactive book. However I decided against this further on into the planning. There really wasn't a great deal of content on my interactive book and I really didn't feel like I could talk to people a whole lot about it. So instead I decided to have my 1960s newspaper articles displayed on my board, it still touched on the 1960s project that we did and design articles was another area that I had a whole lot of interest in. Even though there wasn't a whole lot of content to these, they still looked presentable and I still could talk a little bit about them.
So after I had talked to my lecturer I sat down with the content I had and thought that I really wanted to make it clear that web design was something that I had an interest in. I decided that I would include the two websites that I had made in the past as well, due to them both being on Photoshop I thought that I would just take the best pages from each and display them on the board. I could obviously talk to people about these two sites and show people clearly how I have improved over the years.
I also wanted to create my own branding so I made my own logo and made my own business cards. I am very proud with how these turned out and I believe that they look very professional. They stick to the same colour scheme and are very simple.
