Prototyping

As I had made a mini prototype so I know what  I was already doing how I would make the prototype already. But I want to sure on the size and how big I should be for the children to manage and dance properly in. I also needed to address the issue that Karen my teacher has put forward about the hight of the legs on the children's backs.

After drawing a template and seeing how best I could get as many legs out of the plasterzote as possible. I figured out that I could get 8 legs out of one peace of plasterzote. This was good as It gave me more plasterzote for the dance leaders so I could do what the leaders of moving tides had suggested for the dance leaders but just making the backpacks bigger.

I decided to to the antlers 1m long but when I came to modelling them properly they would not stand up straight so these were cut shorter to about 70cm instead. I had used willow to hold up my eyes in the mini prototype but I thought it would be easier to use 3 peaces of centercane rapt in wire but unfortunately when it came to showing Adele our prototypes this did not hold up the pappermashe eyes so I had to go back to using willow which I had not budgeted for.

Apart from this I was pleased with how my prototype went down there didn't really seem to be any other problems and really. After fixing the eyes we went and had photos taken of everyones prototypes.

I am still not happy with the eyes as you can make them face the front all the time and I am worred that in the procession they will turn around in the back pack and not look as effective as I want them to. So I still think I need I find an alternative for this.