Dale Johnston

For the exhibition, we set up in a primary school classroom that was being used to show the models that my university’s class created for the little inventors themselves. We got to meet Eloise and talk to her about the model, and she helped out by showcasing the model to the other primary school and nursery students.

We had to lean the model scooter against a green paper-covered piece of card as the model was a bit top-heavy. 

For the poster, we placed it onto a whiteboard easel that had the posters for the rest of our group on it.

As a last minute change, I also drew Nick and placed him onto the poster.

After completing all the parts of The Grabber for Earth scooter, we assembled them to create the finished model of the scooter. 

The real wheel was re-attached to the deck so it could perform its hover pivot. The steering column was put through its holder, and the handlebars were attached to the groove that was made for it. This made me realise that I had attached the front wheel to the steering column sideways, though this was quickly fixed by punching out the right holes in the right "side" of the steering column and re-attaching the front wheel. 

The flat side of the steering column holder was hot-glued to a flat part on the curved end of the scooter's deck, and the steering wheel was glued to its position at the middle of the handlebars. The basket was glued to its position on the front of the steering column, and the Grabber arm was attached above it. 

Other previously unmentioned parts were also attached to complete the model. These include the up/down buttons that would be used for the wheels, which were glued to the steering column to face the user; and another button, which was attached to the right side of the handlebars.

With this all said and done, the model was complete. The final thing we did was to take a photo of the model in front of a white background, with the poster on said background.

For the second draft of the poster, I took the advice I had been given and got to work. I started off by cutting out the scooter from the original background in image editing software and replaced the background with a dirty street. I then added a shadow underneath the scooter to make it look like as if the scooter was hovering. After this, I added a rubbish pile in front of the scooter to make it look as if the Grabber arm was picking the can out of said pile. Though it may look a bit strange, the rubbish pile overlapping the scooter’s shadow was a conscious choice to make the rubbish pile stand out more. After that, I edited the basket to have pieces of litter in it as that would be where the Grabber arms stores the litter that it picks up. 

For the font I first used a quite thin font named "Herculanum", with white font colouring and a black outline.  However the font was changed to a larger, more blocky font named "Childhood by Flo Crusher" to be consistent with the other sub-groups that I was in a larger group with. The editing of the text was largely kept the same, bar a spelling mistake or two.

This resulted in Draft 2.1, which ended up becoming the finished version of the poster.

During the exhibition, we added Nick onto the poster using a drawing of the character.