In the final session, I handed in my final product which I have produced at home. It was only going to be a half session today because it is also the final day of school. This was good because most of us had nothing to do (apart from finishing off sketchbook work).
For my final product, I bought a photo album and put my photos in the photo album. Before that, I written on the sides of the photos the characters feelings/emotions towards each other. When the characters leave, they reveal their true identity. The girl wearing loads of make-up wipes it all off. On the sides of that photo, I smothered it with lipstick and blush. For the girl dressed up as a man, she takes off the wig and wipes off her drawn on beard. On the sides of that photo, I added fluff from the wig and black pencil marks for the drawn on beard. In the end of the photo album, there is a quote saying 'first impressions always count'.
I handed this into Mr Hind and he was really pleased with my work. He thought my idea worked great. I am proud of what I have achieved because I have done this all by myself.
Finally I finished off some annotations in my sketchbook. This was quick because I have done some in last session.
The Artefact Unit is finished. I am positive that I will get a good grade for this as I have produced some fine work and worked to the best of my ability.
Today, it was the final session of printing, sketchbook working, maybe photoshoots, feedback, absolutely everything. This was one of the most stressful days for me because I was rushing everywhere, trying to get everything done and dusted. However, to make the day more annoying for me, nothing was going according to plan...I'll start off with the positive things first. In my own time, I managed to organise a photoshoot. As I got to the place where we would be shooting, I was more focused and determined than the test photoshoot because I had a film camera. If I get the light exposure wrong or even mistakenly taken a photo by accident, I cannot delete that photo and start off with the same amount of shots I am left with, it is not digital. During the photoshoot, I tried my hardest not to do this. I found it difficult to do because I only use a film camera once or twice and I am not used to using one. I used a mixture of shots with a high shutter speed and a low shutter speed, low angles, long shots to close-ups and a few focused and unfocused shots. In the end, I think I have done well. Although I think I have done well, I only can find that out when I print these photos. I would need concept prints to check the photos.
Back to today's session. I went to begin printing in the dark room. At first, I printed my concept prints to see what the pictures looked like on a smaller scale. Most of them looked fine. Unfortunately, there were two or three bad photos. I was pleased about how I have done because I am not used to the film camera. Next, I tried to do test strips. I could use these to see which light exposure I should use for my final prints. Normally, I am amazing at producing these. I got the hang of making them a few weeks ago. However, when I developed, fixed and washed the print, it was distorted and had white gaps inbetween each exposure part. It took two or three attempts to get one or two test strips. They were not perfect, but I had no time to loose on the final prints. As I got to the final stage of printing (final prints), I noticed a few scratches and marks on my prints. A few of them had got to do with the paper being scratched, some had got to do with my developing because I either held my finger too long on the paper whilst developing, overlapped prints whilst developing or spilt some fix onto the print before it was developed and the rest were either too bright or too dark. I did print some with a light exposure of 2.5 seconds and some with 4.5 seconds. I know I did not spill any fix onto the print before developing because some people were mistakenly splashing the fix whilst fixing or just messing around with it and throwing it on other people. So in that case, I had to do the prints all over again. After another round of printing, most of them came out fine because the light exposure 
was set onto 3.5 seconds. There were still some bad prints which included marks and scratches. This was the point were I had enough. It was almost the end of school and I did not have time to go through every piece of negative film to find the photos what I am looking for. Instead I did another round of printing to try to get all of the prints perfect. At the time, I was more serious and more focused than before. I was quite stressy to my classmates which was inappropriate but I had to get the work done in time. Finally, all of my prints were fine. (The photos around this paragraph are the prints in my sketchbook).I did not have time to finish off sketchbook work. Fortunately, I will have time in the next session, which will be the final session.
My target would be in the future, not to take it out on people if you are having trouble with work or being serious about work.
Next week will be the final Artefact Unit session. I will talk about my final piece. Plus, I will have a chance to finish everything in my sketchbook which is leftover.
Again, this will be a short post because I have not completed much today apart from some unfinished work in my sketchbook, being a model for James once again because he did not get a chance to complete his test shots and I presented my test shots to Mr Hind plus receiving feedback from him. Moreover, it was more of a busier day for James.
Firstly, I had to do sketchbook work because this was the second last day of the Artefact Unit, also I knew tomorrow was going to be havoc because I have to do final shot printing and finally completing my sketchbook work. So, I had no choice today but to concentrate today really hard even though I do not have much to do this session. However, I have got to organise the final photoshoot in my own time after this CRAM session; that is when it gets stressful. There was a few annotation pieces i needed to finish because I had more important things on my mind the past few weeks e.g. photoshoots, research, etc. Other than that, it was mainly annotations today (artist research annotations). I managed to accomplish that.
James photoshoot was soon, so I went to receive feedback from Mr Hind for my test shots for my concept 'First Impressions'. His reflection to the photographs were great. He liked them a lot which was good. Unfortunately, I have to do them again. And to make matters worse, I had to use the film camera which is manual. I only had a chance to use these cameras once or twice in the whole unit. I was quite unconfident, but there is no turning back now. Fortunately, Mr Hind's comments gave me a little boost of confidence. After this session, I would have to organise a date and time for my models. Hopefully, they would have time this week.
It was time for me to change roles, from photographer and worker to model. James had to do his test shots today because he did not get a chance to use the camera last week in our own time because I was using it for my photoshoot. I was worried if he would rush his work, not complete it to his best standard because it would be all my fault. This did not happen as we took time. I even came up with some shots as well.
My target would be in future, to complete tasks earlier. This would result to less work, less stress in the last days and great time management.
Next week, I will be printing my final shots. This week (in my own time) I will be doing the final photoshoot. I will talk about how the photoshoot went next week as well. Hopefully after next week, I will finally assemble my final piece which is the 'First Impressions photo album.
