Unit 12 Evaluation

I collected primary research from Shawland's school as well as the children's room in the Barnsley College building as examples of what children's display boards and library walls should/could look like as a final result. Secondary research, I collected from various children's books, online home decorating websites (Homebase etc.), my own children's books from my childhood that I enjoyed- The BFG, The Witches, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Little Mermaid etc.

I developed my research through creating a customer research board, sketch book, mood boards, design sheets, costing sheets. My customer research board being a mood board that consisted of the interests that I imagined a child within my target audience's age range would have as well as things that they would enjoy to read to give an idea of what to include on their school walls.

From my initial designs/ideas, I kept the theme of fairytales because of their strong link to my childhood and their constant popularity with ongoing generations- Disney still being one of the biggest aspects of children's lives/ whatever glimpses they get of the media/the stories they are told.
I took this aspect forward because I know that children are more likely to copy cat their idols/ favourite characters do, rather than do what their parents/ teachers/ superiors tell them to do, making reading feel more like work instead of something that they enjoy and decided to do on their own accord- through being subconsciously influenced by what they see on the walls at school.

My constraints were prices (keeping each design under £100), the space and dimensions of the walls (having to buy enough paint to cover every part with double coats as well as multiple colours without going over budget and leaving money for other materials). As well as time, making sure certain pieces of work were in for mini deadlines throughout the weeks leading up to the final deadline.

I experimented with different styles and colour schemes- having a few designs based round a starry night sky with darker colours, but later decided that perhaps not all of the children would appreciate the darker themes, so created a counterpart brighter design sheet featuring a morning sun with a bright blue sky and fluffy white clouds.

My main problem solving involved changing around the brands of paints that I used- decreasing the choices of colours and looking into different brands that would perhaps be cheaper, while still being able to afford the multiple colours that I needed to complete my designs as planned.

If I had no constraints, I think that the only changes that would be made to the original plans that I had would be the varying shades of coloured paint- the paint being the most expensive items on all of my costing sheets, especially due to the fact that the walls need more than one coat, generally.