Project 1

For the first two days of the 3D design pathway, we had to make ten objects out of various materials such as cardboard, wire, foam-board, straws, cable ties and many other materials. There was no thinking process to this exercise, just to build and make either structures, objects or wearable's. 

Here are a selection of mine:

This object was made up of plywood as the base. The wire spirals are made up of thin silver wire, that I added the plastic covering to them. I wanted the wires to intertwining together so I made the striped green and yellow spiral slightly smaller and more compacted together so it could actually fit in the blue wire. After the wires were together I managed to join the ends the ends together with duck tape to hold them together. Once the ends were secure I taped the ends to the wood base so it would be more stable and secure. I personally like this object because it looks almost like a telephone wire. Or potentially look like part of an obstacle course.  

The next object that I created didn't really had a purpose but ended up being able to 'fly'. The design started off as just four cable ties attached together then pierced through brown paper. I wanted to add something else to the brown paper structure so i glued thin pieces of wood to the inner structure of the brown paper

After making about ten different designs and we drew the objects with a variety of media, to get texture and shading to the drawn objects and piece of work. Here are some of my drawings. 

 The drawing technique that I used for this object was 3 coloured marker pens so each shape would stand out more and become more three-dimentional.  As an object on a page.  

 I used charcoal for this design as I thought it would give this particular object a more structured effect. The shading is more defined, as I have smudged in the charcoal.  

This wired piece was drawn out in pencil, with a lot of definition and time was taken into consideration when I was drawing this as I wanted to get it accurate as possible.   

The next part of project one was to chose one of the objects we created and turn it into the specialised area we want to continue with, Special Effects/Set Design is my chosen area. the product that I decided to make and develop was this cable-ties assembled together in different angles to create an unusual shape.

After feedback from teachers and peers, I decided to turn this creation into a mask to be worn in a cultural way or to resemble a butterfly which I was eventually inspired by this image. This isa a butterfly mask, named Volto-Butterfly by the Venetian Mask Society.

After looking into research I drew a few sketches of what the mask could potentially look like. 

  Here is one of the sketches that I drew out using the influence from the butterfly mask and the cable-tie structure. I thought using the element of using the teardrop shaped cable-ties would create a a perfect representation of unique mask. 

The materials that I used to create the prototype as such was cable ties, wire and plastic covering. I think that the way I made the mask was quite difficult in the sense that the different sections of the mask I had to create. All in all I think I created a good mask that can be represented in a theatre performance or as a fancy dress piece.