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Ally McEnhill

NTU Design for Film and Television  Student 2020

Hello my name is Ally and I am currently studying Design for Film and Television at NTU. This blog is to track my progress and discoveries throughout my first year. Enjoy!

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Assembling and Fairylights

Lastly, I put the whole thing together having stained and painted all the parts the appropriate colours. Using wood glue, I slowly...

Tea and Acrylic

So next to my project, I decided to do the tea staining process in order to try and even out the whiteness of the hieroglyphics with the...

Polyfilla and Printing

When doing the real thing, and it was a lot better than the prototypes but there was still a bit of issue with peeling as some the...

Printing Experimentation

So having decided I no longer wanted to use the laser cutter, I needed to try and think of how I wanted to add textures to the walls but...

Photoshop Visual

Having solidified the rough design with the measurements and built a prototype, I decided to then go on and use photoshop, as I mentioned...

Illustrator Net and Prototype

I then decided to use Illustrator as a software to map out my net for the model. I used some of the measurements that I developed on...

Sketchup Development

Before deciding what design, I wanted to do, I decided to explore some of my ideas using sketch up to allow me to understand how I would...

Initial Ideas

Having done my mood board, I then decided to sketch out a few ideas. The first one I looked at sloping ground that then went round the...

Mood Board

When first exploring ideas for a book nook diorama, I knew I wanted it to be Ancient Egyptian themed as my contextual studies essay...

Choosing an Artefact Project

For my artefact, I have decided to do a book nook diorama inspired by Ancient Egyptian as my contextual studies essay title was exploring...

Plastazote Plague Mask

The last mask we made was a plague mask using the material plastazote; however, due to covid circumstances, I left all of my resources...

Print 1

In this print class, we used lino and printing ink to produce prints! I chose to do a lizard design. When cutting into the lino,...

Print 2

So in this print class we tried 2 different techniques. One involving nail polish remover and one involving tape. When doing the first...

SketchUp Session 3

In the final session we really were able to combine all the skills we done so far in order to make a throne. I really enjoyed the session...

Model Making 3

In the third session of modelmaking, we began to explore textures of walls and how you could use different materials in order to produce...

SketchUp Session 2

Our second session was more of an exploration in comparison to the first session which was more goal driven. In this session we really...

Making a Box

For this assignment, all components were pre-cut and we really tried to explore the joining and finishing processes with wood. We were...

Worbla Mask

In this mixed material session, we focused on the material of worbla (another thermoplastic). We were instructed to make half mask that...

Making a Shield

Before creating our shields, we were first introduced with a health and safety briefing whereby we were taken around all the different...

Model Making 2

In the second session of modelmaking, we really began to focus on the effectiveness of layering, in order to produce 3D effects such as...

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