To do this I needed 4+ people to stand in the lift at once with one person standing outside looking in knowing there’s no room left for them in the lift and the awkward feeling between the people in the lift waiting to see if you get in and you standing there waiting for the lift to hurry up and move past you.

In this mock up I drew myself as the person in the photo, however I knew I wanted it to be someone else as I wanted to be able to be the one behind the phone taking the photo.

Getting everyone in the lift and getting a photo before the lift doors shut proved to be quite an issue and resulted in me not being able to get a large range of photos to choose from when picking my favourite.

If I had a chance to do this again I would much rather have a slightly lower angle as I think I took the photo slightly too high.

With my photos I specifically wanted to capture the bright lights and how they reflect on the skin and clothes of the people in the club.

I also aimed to include a large amount of motion blur as I feel this captures the fun carefree feeling you get while with your friends and it creates more of a feeling behind the image with the implications of movement and how your eyes almost can translate the photo into a short video in your mind.

When editing the photos i purposefully turned down the exposure, brilliance and black point while turning up the brightness very slightly and turning the saturation and vibrancy up to almost the full amount, this gave my images the exact feel I was aiming for, unfortunately I feel like this was slightly lost in the printing of the images.

The umbrella was added as I wanted some more space to project onto without having a blank wall behind her and this felt like a creative way of ensuring there was more projection space.

The arms are inspired by arms you would see in kid cartoons with their round appearance and lack of proper joints.

If I could change anything about the final product it would be when creating the sculpture, try to use less layers of plaster and ensure that I keep it smooth to avoid creating bumps and uneven textures.

Overall I am proud with what I was able to accomplish with these materials and this brief as it is something well out of my comfort zone.

In quite a few of my pages I avoided giving them a border as I feel like the border gave them a very polished and organise appearance which I didn't think fit in this photobook.

With this photobook I wanted the pages to be quite bare with the photos themselves being the only focus point of the pages.

I feel like the lack of a border gives it a slightly messier scrappier look which I quite enjoy and think helps with the image I was trying to encapsulate with this photobook, I was aiming to encapsulate the rushed and carefree feeling you get when out at night with your friends.

I did experiment with leaving masking tape on the pages and even having a few pages stuck incorrectly, however I felt like this didn't look correct and felt a bit too busy as the images themself are quite busy.

Personally these are my favourite photos I included in the book as I love the motion blur in the ribbons and her hair.

The reason I included drag queens in my photobook is because to me drag queens are a quintessential aspect of Belfast night life especially in the bars and clubs I personally go to regularly.

In this pair of photos I was able to capture the moment right before any large movement and paired it with a photo taken at the peak of movement with her arms, hair, lips and dress all moving at once.

This small exercise was a lot of fun for me and allowed for me to test out photography to see what i liked and didn’t like about it and work from there.

My item I brought in was the brass looking perfume bottle.

I took multiple photos from many different angles so I ws able to choose 3 to showcase.

This first one is one of my favourites as I was able to capture the red ammonias liquid as it was spilling out of the cup.

Overall this drawing exercise was great at helping teach me perspective as we were always changing angles but also it helped me with timing as the limited time for each caused me to speed up my work resulting in me being able to create the piece attached in 10 minutes roughly. This piece attached is my favourite piece I produced in the fine art unit thus far.

If I were to go back and do this piece again I would choose different colours that were darker and a little more different to one another as certain parts of the painting blend together with one another in my eyes

Overall this was quite difficult to pull off and there were quite a few failed attempts before this one.

I enjoyed this process a lot more and feel like the images I got from this were significantly better than the ones I done before.

This one included the cup with the liquid pouring out from my still life as well as the rope and cloth in the background which were details I couldn’t include previously.

Overall print making isn’t something I personally enjoy, however I was able to find a way to make it fun and was able to experiment some more with a medium I personally struggle to understand

After we done this we when rub the tracing paper onto a regular piece of paper and began to colour in the gaps and adding lines or shading to certain areas to create an abstract drawing from our still life art.

This was tedious to do yet the finished product is something quite nice and different for me as I usually don’t do much art like this.

When presenting these I chose to have all 4 drooping next to each other as all were intended to droop but all in different ways.

Initially this piece was only the white elements but I added both pink and blue into it, I was inspired slightly by the design of fleur-de-lis for the shape.

If I had more time with this I would of liked to experiment with pushing the paper further and stretching out the shapes.

When presenting it I decided to drape it similarly to party streamers so I could create a droop similar to the other 4 but also giving it it's own unique shape.

With the 2nd piece (the lower one) I was inspired by vines and by pushing each of the paper folds inward it created a design similar to that of a flower. I scattered them along the page in a way similar to how a vine grows.

I would of liked to make it even longer and have it wrap around itself a bit if I was given more time on it.

Slightly inspired by the natural design of wood lines and how they curve around knots.

Unfortunately none of my plates had been cooked yet so all of the photos are of just the clay, they should be cooked and finalised by Monday.

I have always liked spiral designs and wanted to incorporate it into my ceramics.

Overall I am pleased with all 3 of my simple ceramic plate designs.

I created this by rolling 16 balls and then pinching the top slightly to create an egg like shape and using a wooden knife creating a slit down the side to resemble flowers (specifically tulips) before they bloom.

I have nothing I would like to change about this plate and it is my favourite of all the ceramic plates I created.

If I had more time I would have liked to create more dramatic curves in the structure and make it look even less possible for it to stand on its own, really push it to its limit.

Using thin layers of clay I built up the flower until it was large and full looking.

Overall I’m super pleased with what I created and love how it turned out.

If I had more time I would have loved to give it a more creative plate design as the cross hatching doesn’t look great.

Making sure the plate stayed warped and elevated was quite a challenge and proved to be quite difficult however by pinching the clay I was able to get it to hold its shape.

If I was given more time I would have liked to give the “hills” on either side a grass like texture instead of a lined style.

The larger one was significantly easier to create and I was able to have a little more freedom with it where as the smaller one was very limiting and I struggled folding the paper as many times as I needed to, to create the design.

Overall I am quite pleased with how they came out and if I was given more time I would have liked to make a few more until I was more confident in origami.

I used skulls along it and a rib charm on a chain as I’ve always been interested in biology and love jewellery designed to look like the human skeleton.

I included seashells as I’ve lived by the beach my entire life and always enjoyed going to the beach and collection shells when I was younger so I have a large collection of them.

I added pearls from an old necklace and used chains from old necklaces to hang charms off the collar.

I added small crystals off an old crystal bracelet as I have a crystal collection and feel like this represents a part of me that I wanted to include on my jewellery.

I included other random trinkets like buttons and pins to give more personality to the collar.

I wanted the necklace to feel very cluttered in the front and the flutter fading out as u move to the back of the necklace.

This was quite difficult as I struggle quite a bit with weaving but I am very pleased with how it turned out.

I made sure that it stayed within my colour pallet as I wanted to not stray too far from my mood board when doing the textiles workshop.

I wanted to stamp the fruit several times and showcase how the print fades the more I stamp it on the page.

Overall I’m very pleased with how this turned out and like the story I was able to capture in the piece as I intended for the fading of the paint to almost represent the rotting of the fruit and how it loses its colour and shape as it rots.

Weaving for some reason is quite a challenge for me as it confuses me when I try and focus on it too much.

I tried to challenge myself by ripping the paper to create a more interesting design however I’m not overly pleased with how this turned out and if I were to give it another go I would stick to straight even lines.

I tried to stay close to my colour pallet while also including an entire person on the page.

This was quite difficult as finding a person who’s colour pallet didn’t stray too far from mine was a challenge however I was able to find someone who fit almost perfectly.

I like the contrast of all the different colours of fabric and how they conflict with one another creating a very layered look.

I found the running stitch quite difficult at the start but slowly got the hang of it, it was quite time consuming but I did enjoy it.

If I were to give this another go I would like to incorporate different textures of fabric as I only really included 5 different textures.

By doing biology I was combining my two favourite subjects in school, art and biology.

The design of the shirt was meant to resemble a skeleton with the back having a spinal cord and the front having a set of 8 ribs (this was intentionally inaccurate.)

For the bones I was inspired by cybersigilism but I didn’t want to go too far into cybersigilism that it wasn’t recognisable as a skeleton.

To create this design I used a process we learned in class, printmaking.

I cut sheets of cardboard into the intricate design, painted one side black and then stamped it on the shirt.

This process was quite risky as I had to move fast to ensure the paint wouldn’t dry while also making sure the placement was correct.

I also added a lace trimming around the collar, this was added solely to include another technique we learned in class, the running stitch.

When I finished my shirt I realised that due to the size of the shirt the design got lost a bit, to help try and pull the design in more towards the centre I painted each button black so there was an element of colour in the centre of the shirt, I believe this worked quite well.

Overall if I had another go on the shirt I would definitely get a smaller sized shirt and try and find a way of ensuring the design is completely visible from the front even when on a mannequin.

The middle piece was dyed using tea bags, the colour change is very minimal even after several cups of strong tea.

The third and final piece of fabric was dyed using crushed blueberries and is my favourite of the three, I love how the blueberries really changed the colour of the fabric and they worked significantly faster than the other 2 as it was almost instantly dyed.

The final design does not stray from the planning much besides the fact that I added a lot more clutter to the front than I once imagined.

Initially I had another idea of doing a shirt with a bunch of paint spills on it however I didn’t go with this idea as it felt very uninspired and predictable almost.

I would of dyed the shirt using different paints but I wasn’t sure if this would give the look I was envisioning so I strayed away from dying the fabric completely

I wanted a design that would lend itself to one of the techniques that we learned in class.

The skeleton design was instantly a stand out to me and was what I focused on mainly when planning.

I also looked at colour pairing such as white and gold, red and gold, blue and white.

I would have loved to include even more inspiration images but I was beginning to run out of space.

To make the design more interesting I tilted the A to be aligned with the N

If I had more time I would like to give some more outlines and make a few of them a little more polished, such as type or space.

I am not overly proud of this piece as it confused me having the ball bounce back up and at an angle

The top ball has no special animation.

The middle ball moves slightly faster in the middle and slower on the ends.

The third ball has a bit of a bend in its shape to make it look faster.

I went in after the class to create a loop as I wasn't able to do that during class.

This animation I done completely on my own and I am quite proud of it.

There are a few errors I noticed after completing it such as the curve of the water splashing doesn't make too much sense.

I could of skipped frames to make it look a little faster at the end.

For a few of my pieces I focused on the side of the deer and the look of when a deer has it's body turned and its head tilted to face you.

If I had more time I could like to add more collage elements into the pieces.

In the group I took on a leadership role making sure all the essential work was completed and all the ideas were at least on the page.

Due to time constraints we were not able to fill our page to a level that I would of liked, however I am proud of what I personally contributed to the work.

I created the name of the app, the concept of the app, the description, the general writing on the larger page and layout of the app. I got help from my group when creating a "fake person" that fit our target audience.

I wrote out the description of who she was and why she would be using the app as to show the type of people our app would be aimed towards.

I decided to focus a lot of the app around the concept of food as our prompts were age:49-63 , theme:food , media:VR/AR , and fit for a family.

The concept I created is an app that allows for parents of children who are moving out to Uni or moving out to simply live on their own, to create a list of family recipe and have a simple and easy way of sharing them with the children.

On the other end of the app their child who has now moved out would be able to select from the menu of options and be able to point their camera towards the ingredients infront of them and the app show AR (augmented reality) style notes beside each ingredient; such as pointing it at a bag of flour may say "2 cups of flour into the bowl" or if you point it at the flour a step too early it may say "Not needed yet".

Overall I am proud of what I was able to accomplish and I am happy with my concept, I do wish I had more time to complete the work as I was struggling to get all that We needed done in time.

I struggled cutting it as I had never done it before.

At times I did cut a little too deep but the printing process was unaffected

We included a small drawing in most of the shells to make them look a little more interesting

After we done this we when rub the tracing paper onto a regular piece of paper and began to colour in the gaps and adding lines or shading to certain areas to create an abstract drawing from

I enjoy this process as it forces me to not be too precious over my work and forces me to just get my ideas on the page.

For these 3 I feel like I could of done them a little bigger as they dont take up the entire page, however I am quite pleased with how I was able to capture the pose quite well in my opinion.

Overall I enjoyed the process and love the final result of both as it gives a great feeling of motion and blur to the pieces.

If I were to do it again I would love to add even more detail into my pieces and use a sharper edge of the willow to get small details such as eyes and such to really make the 3rd and final piece pop overtop of the other 2.

A few of these designs stood out to me, specifically the one in the bottom left corner which is the one I eventually went with

I do wish I spaced out the "mistakes" a little more to not overload it

Overall I only was able to get 3 done as I wasn't able to stay longer in the workshop.

Overall I think they turned out quite well as a collective, there are some I am extremely proud of, such as the ratio one of the cat, the fold one of the dog ear and the process of the brick wall.

There are some I would love to redo if I got the chance such as type, unit and grid.