Card Camera's - 3D Workshop Day 7/8

In our final workshop, we were asked to make a  card camera using a piece of card that had a development sheet from our project work printed onto it. To start this off, we were asked to cut out all of the shapes from a card template, and arrange them onto the development sheet card to see what parts of it we wanted where. Once we had done this we had to stick the template onto the pieces of card using spray adhesive, making sure that it was well stuck down. We then had to trim down all of the pieces so they were the right size that the template was originally. After this, we were able to choose pieces of the template to add stitching to, so that our work resembled the work of Jennifer Collier, who we were also studying about. I chose for a stitched line across the main body of the camera, and multiple at the side of the lenses. Once this had all be done and we were happy with it, we  were able to start and build the model. To stick the pieces together we were using masking tape and double sided tape. By the time we had to make a start on finishing our camera's in the next session, most of the tape had come un-done, to overcome this, we took all of the tape off and glued the pieces together with superglue, which worked alot better. Once i had finished my camera, i was very pleased with the outcomes as it was a lot better than i  thought it would look while i was doing it.

The front of my camera

The back of my camera

Half way through making my camera, i almost gave up as i started to get mad because parts were too fiddly, things weren't sticking and parts of the card looked messy. To over come this, i took apart the parts that weren't sticking and looked messy, i found some black card, which i thought would go well with the colours on the card i was using, and cut them into the right shape and used them instead. This worked really well as it was making things easier to stick together as it wasn't as thick as it was before with two layers of card. 

I didn't really enjoy this workshop as i didn't like how small and fiddly the work was, as it is something im not good at. Despite this, once i had finished my camera, i was really proud of it as from the beginning i knew this was something i would struggle with, and i thought it looked really good especially to say i had no help.