The end is nigh!

Today began with a visit to the Yorkshire Museum to get a feel of how the exhibition preparation is coming along. It was frantic but it's looking excellent and we're really excited to be a part of it! Our videos may even be featured on tonight's 'Look North' local BBC news! We got to handle the infamous Scarborough frontlet, heavily featured in one of our videos. After speaking to the Curator of Archaeology at the museum, Natalie McCaul, she said the museum would be greatly interested in seeing any results from our surveys...

This leads us to the afternoon when we continued the development of our surveys and interview questions that we will conduct next week. As a group we created and also finalised the information we wanted to gain from the visitors concerning the new 'After the Ice' exhibition and in particular the Star Carr features and our videos. We are devising a plan of action for the day, including allocated roles and where we should be stationed within the museum, so as not to get in the way and reach the maximum amount of people. We are also planning to do observational studies within the exhibition and we're trying to think of the best way to go about this without being invasive or looking weird and creepy. So we're thinking of just having two people handing out surveys, two doing interviews and two mingling with the visitors and wandering around the exhibition taking mental notes of things like what attracts the most attention and how people engage with the interactive elements. We are really intrigued to find out how people perceive the exhibition including the films that we have created. What will people think of the exhibition? What will people think of our films? Will people be willing to take part in the surveys and interviews?

To be continued...