Professional and Collaborative Practice - Fort Amherst/ Farnham

Week round up
Dates - Monday 8th May - Friday 12th May
Job - Designer
Hours -
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 10a.m. - 5p.m. (7hrs each day)
Thursday 9:20a.m. - 12:30p.m.(3hrs 10mins total)

Over the course of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I continued with my personal project, going back over the previous work I did and making sure it makes sense and is laid out logically and clearly, as well as going over what was spoken about at the previous meeting with Nicola and the Fort Amherst staff, making sure I had noted down the ideas and any comments I had on these points, I then made lists of possible primary schools that could be contacted if the project were to go ahead, as well as possible theatre groups/students that could be contacted to partake in the event. Going over the ideas helped me to cement the idea more clearly and gave more clarity to the overall event as a whole.

 If the project was to go ahead more in depth research would be required in this idea, to make sure there was nothing that could cause cultural offence, and that the costumes were historically accurate, however I don't feel that all the costumes would need to come from the exact same period. 

 List of possible schools that could be contacted, there is also the possibility of contacting youth groups such as boy scouts and the girl guides. 

On the Thursday I went into university to help with the initial start of the Farnham project make. I started by talking over with the team present what needed to be achieved and how they could get there as well as discussing possible ways that things could be achieved. However due to the limited amount of time for experimentation there was a lack of know how for processes and techniques to get a certain outcome meaning the make for these was likely going to be a lengthy one due to trial and error development, whilst there I helped with sanding down plant pots to be Covent Garden Primered, this primer making the surface suitable to paint onto so that the paint will adhere. Initially I had budgeted for real terracotta pots, however when ordering the materials plastic pots had been chosen and so where the terracotta pots could have just been primed and painted we now had to sand all the pots to give a base suitable for the primer before continuing.

Before leaving I made sure the other students knew what needed to be achieved, and that they knew if they were unsure of something they could contact me and I would be happy to talk through anything with them if they were stuck.