HWTMA Work Experience July 2011 Day Five

I arrived later at 9:00am today as Amanda had told me to. Even so when I arrived there was only one person at the office. After being logged on to my computer I typed up Thursday's blog and loaded up everything I needed for the Jenga game. To start of I edited some more photos as well as sorted through all of those I'd taken until I only had one or two images left for each artefact. This was surprisingly hard as it was difficult to decide which pictures would be recognisable as their object when printed about the size of a postage stamp.

Then I searched the internet again for 18th century and medieval artefacts but had no luck in finding any appropriate. Mid-morning I went over to Gareth to ask for help and he told me not to worry about finding photos for now as I had another task to get on with. I sat down at his desk and he explained to me about a sunken U-boat in the Solent that divers from HWTMA had recently gone down to and taken photos of. In the Maritime Bus there is TV screen and I think Gareth wanted a sort of video showing what it would be like to dive down to the submarine.

Using Google Sketch Up I was to make an animation using the 'scenes' tool to show what a diver would see if he went down there. The model of the U-boat was already made by someone else so Gareth turned it on its side as it is in the water. The idea was that I would match up scenes from the animation to an actual photo taken of the wreck to merge onto the animation and show people what the sub looks like now. At first I thought this task looked quite difficult but once I got going I really enjoyed it. I ate lunch in the office today as it was really cold and windy outside and then continued with my task after lunch. The hardest part was making out from the photos what part of the submarine they were. This was hard because most of the outer shell of the U-boat had eroded away so the photos looked different to the model on Sketch Up and the water was quite murky.

Mid-afternoon I asked Gareth to check what I'd done and he said it was good but suggested a few more photos I could include in it. I did this and then right before I had to go I did a bit more of sorting photos out for the Jenga game then left. I feel like I've only been here a couple of days, not like I'm half way through work experience!