Today instead of doing our usual and going into college; we were based at main campus in Worksop. Today was the day that we had been preparing for being our final Unit 25 practical assessment! At Worksop they had a simulation type room which had space of us artists to be able to work on them and create a simulation type Photoshoot with the beds and other hospital type equipment. We were assigned 2 models each and had to apply prosthetics to them according to our design plans. Due to covid we were restricted from working on the face which was disappointing however we still did an amazing job.
Looking back at my week 4 and week 9 reflections I showed off my skills of painting and applying the ankle piece which I decided to take to the event and apply on my model. As well as this I also took multiple bullet and entry wounds to apply on the models. I felt that these went okay however after reviewing I do feel that there could have been some adaptations.
I felt that due to the circumstances of not having a proper work surface to lay out my products I felt myself getting confused and wasting time while I could have been applying. Due to this and models getting changed I was a little behind compared to the rest of the group. This became more of a problem later on when the excitable health and social care students came round and were floating about my workstation. As well as this I found that my exit wound piece wasn’t as flat as I would have liked, because of this the piece does look super artificial.
Also due to that there was a lack of time and with the current setbacks of timing I unfortunately didn’t get to splatter blood everywhere on my pieces as I didn’t want to mess up the clients clothes. I guess something to look at is that I shouldn’t compare to what others did - yes they did do an amazing job however I had a different design plan and had more bullet wounds than I had open cuts.
From today I do feel that my ankle piece was my best piece from the bunch, being the largest and the most gruesome. If I were to run the simulation again I think that I would possibly ensure that my large Exit wound piece was thin enough for me to properly blend the edge. I would also have asked the model to be speedy when getting changed as well as a malleable workstation which I could use such as a trolley to place my items on.
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