Our next production film

So our next production film was here and it was a personal profile. We had to create a short film focussing on someone who had something interesting about them whether it was a talent, hobbie or job. They couldn't talk to the camerait could only be a voice over which will be played over footage we capture of the person doing what they do.

Who could we do?
Originally we had a photgrapher as the person behind our personal profile. We thought that the job was intersting and had a good story behind. The shots would of also been interesting as we could get some artistic shots in there. However we were let down by the photograoher as he had work to do in another city which was too far for us to travel too so we had to think of someone else. We know of a local actress and singer who became our final idea for our personal profile. She had an interesting story and many talents to her. She was within travelling distance and everything seemed to eb going to plan so we went ahead with the actress.

Creating an idea

Now we know who our user group is, what they like and what they don't it was now time to think of what our exhibition would be. The first thing that we diceded is what topic would they be learning about as it needs to be educational, geography was our choice as we thought it would have interesting options.

We thought of what was involved in geography and thought of different aspects they would like. We thought that they would like engaging and interacting the most. A volcano room was our idea. The children would be asked questions which they will of learnt in school from their teachers pack, if they go the answer correct it would make something happen eventually making the volcano errupt. We then decided that 30 would be too much to have in one room so split it into 3 groups of 10. A volcano, artic, rainforest and desert room. One would be a final room which they entered together.

After giving our five minute presentation, we were told to remember that we only have a small part of the museum and not the whole of it so 4 rooms wouldnt be realistic. We changed our idea to 3 pods. We got rid of the volcano room as when it came down to researching the climates for questions wewere stuck on volvanos as we didn't have a lot of knowledge. The pods would be a fun and exciting way of entering a climate.

The climate pods would have realistic things to what the real place would be like. When they answered a question right, things would happen thart represented the climate.
Here are some examples:

Rainforest room
Wear rainforest hats and umbrella

Warm climate

Rains when they get all the questions right

Real life parrot

Desert room

Wear sunglasses and hat

Warm climate

Sun sets at the end

full of sand

Artic room

Wear hat gloves and scarf

Snow covered floor

Snows at the end

These ideas are what will keepthe children interested and learning in a fun way. We will be delivering the presentation by making cut out mini pods of what they will look like, a preze with all the info on, photoshopped rooms, teachers pack and the questions they would be asked.

User group

We picked a number out of a hat and the number you chose was the position in line you were to picking what user group you would prefer from the list. We were number six and had our eyes set on going for the user group of Primary School children. And that's what we got! I was pretty happy about that as I thought it was a good user group as we could pick pretty much any topic as long as it was educational.

Myself,Amy and Ceri got ourselves on a whiteboard table and thought that we would write down as many words possible to do with our user group and what the exhibition would have to be like so that we could identify exactly who they were and what there needs are.

We come up with hundreds of words here are some of the relevant ones:
The exhibition

Educational

Entertaining
Fun

Engaging

Interactive

Useful

Memorable

The User group

Easily bored

Truthful

Energetic

Interested

Spontaneous

Young

Eager

Narrowing the words down to just a few helped us realise that we had quite a tough user group on our hands and primary school children are from the age of 4-11 so we needed to narrow that down to one class. Year 3 ages 7-8 is what we chose. We thought that it was an age were they are still eager to play engage and interact yet they can learn information and put it into practise. Another huge part to our user group other than the children is the teachers. They will be the ones who have to teach the children any information first, the people we would communicate and organise with and the people who will have the biggest opinion on the day.

Now that we know exactly who our user group is we need to get thinking of a good idea that keeps them entertained, educated and happy.

Museum of Liverpool project

We have been set the brief of designing an exhibition that we could hold in  the Museum of Liverpool to suit a certain user group. Before we were given the user group options I took myself down to the museum to have a nose round as it's pretty new to Liverpool, opening in July 2011. I didn't find the museum overly exciting, I thought it was all kind of plain, bland and straight forward. So from then I knew that I wanted to make an exhibition that would be completely opposite to he rest of the museum what ever my user group would be. The museum is free so a lot of people tend to go, this means that the user group list that we will choose from will be a very wide range of people.

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ this is the link to the museums website. It gives a timetable of 'what's on' in the museum. The range of different activities and tours show the range of people that are currently attracted to this museum. I found that it was a very large and variable group. I'm looking forward to find out our user group and get going on the project.

Blogging...

For the past month I haven't really blogged about any of my work at all, which I know I should be. I've been a little overwhelmed with the amount of work and been trying to keep on top of that and taking notes as I've been going along so I could type them up on to my blog. I've also been pretty busy sorting out my change of course for September as sadly I will be leaving the media course to change to a career I have always wanted to pursue.

Anyway, here goes all of the work I have been doing lately. Each blog will be the notes I have taken ready to put on my blog, enjoy :)