Moving on from the second workshop of cereal packaging this week we were to bring the finished cereal box ready to be printed and then assembled ready to take photographs off. Before printing the packaging I made last minute checks to ensure that the outcome had no mistakes or faults to the design. Then it was a waiting game as before we could print everyones packaging needed to be placed in to the Indesign document ready for Jay to print and collect.
Once printed we either had the choice to cut the net out using scissors or a craft knife; since I had left my craft knife at home and there were limited resources in the workshop I chose to use scissors. I will add that I have the tendency to slip with craft knifes anyway so the outcome may have been worse by using one. When the net was cut out I chose to use the folding board so that each of the folds were straight and creased for easy assembling.
So at this stage the box/packaging was assembled, next was to photograph the outcome. Jay had set up a mini photoshoot/ studio so that we could take professional photos that we could document. I felt that the photo's helped to make the packaging look professional which was important for me. The reason I felt that it was important was that I'm not fully pleased with the outcome of the packaging, as although it's a children's cereal and shouldn't be too complex I feel that I have made it too simple and flat. Some areas look a little bare which I will take in to consideration when working on layouts for packaging. 
Overall I enjoyed the process over the workshops going from a drawing to working digitally and then having the product at the end. Although I'm not overly keen on the design myself I think that the workshops have been beneficial just to improve the process that I go through as a designer.
