Schedule - Time Management

Above is the intended schedule for Organic Beauty. I intended to start my project before the Christmas period by sourcing the models and photographers that I wanted to work with. However, I left this to a lot later, it was then that I realised that it takes some time to get together the perfect team. I found that people that were replying to my casting calls really didn't have the same ideas as me when it comes to photography and modelling. I found it a lot harder to find a team to work with so I decided to do the photography for myself and get an old friend to model for me. I have around 5 years experience with photography so I knew what I was doing, so this aspect didn't affect me much. However it was added work to the time that should have been spent making up the model or working on my website design. I found that I didn't stick to my schedule at all and went off and did my own thing. Luckily everything came together in the end, but I did find myself making smaller lists of things to do instead of a main one. I also didn't do as many shoots as was stated on the schedule and I didn't create videos. This is an aspect that can allow for my project to be evolved. I can take the project further and appeal to more people by creating more visual content. 

I found the most time consuming thing to be creating the website. I didn't take into consideration how long it would take to figure out what kind of design I wanted to use, what fonts and what colours to use. I thought it would take me around a week to create the website and test to see if it works. This however was wrong, making me behind on my schedule. In the end it took me longer than expected which meant that I did not have time to create a focus group to test out the website. Therefore I have had no critical feedback on my website, which would have helped along the way. I should have also kept the feedback from my project proposal in my mind, because I was told to be aware of how time consuming making a website is. This was something that I forgot as the weeks went on. 

Overall my time management for this project has been awful. I found that I have left aspects of the project to the last minute, even though I was organised with what I wanted to do eventually, I still lacked the motivation to complete the project.