Budgeting and Ordering of materials

Another reason of why I chose to do the Moving Tides project was so that it could give me a taster of managing a budget and taking part in roles like this which will be transferrable in any career I decide to take on after. The budget I was allowed to spend was £10 per student and £15 per Dance leader. This you would think was quite a lot of money considering I have 30 students to buy for, but it is quite fascinating how quickly this money went down once all the vital materials had been ordered! There is a lot of logistics involved in this project , mainly because it is a live project and other people are depending on me, but everything has to be thought through thoroughly, with the design process and budgeting going hand in hand. I feel this has really improved my organisational skills already (which is what I wanted to improve in this project!) and there is a stress upon the 'forward thinking' and being super responsible and careful about all decisions that I make. This will continue once I start the actual ordering of materials and components as I need to make sure all my receipts of expenses are collected and organised, (a role which costume supervisors usually take on so gives me a taster of this role also!) The prototype however will be financed by me, as the materials I doubt will of arrived in tie, and I want to start protoyping as soon as I get back in the workshop! Nothing will become clear in my head until I see it 3D. I honestly wish I would of started to prototype prior to doing the budget plans, as this would of made me more confident that all materials I have chosen to order will work. However, this can only be a lesson to be learnt for me for future projects, is to prototype whilst designing as it will make more sense in my head of what does and does not work, and a chance to make final decisions a lot sooner than I usually would, however I do feel its been a great experience of the processes involved in delivering workshops in schools and the timescales and order each activity...

Below is the financial information to be ordered. There are the materials which will provide the basis for the costume and also 'bits and bos' from the scrap store and Wilkinsons for the students to decorate and pesronalise their own costumes, I think this is reallly important that they have their own creative flair within the design so it is unique for them and makes them think about the placement of decoration. This is something I will include in my lesson plans which need to be done soon also,,,,