This Is The End.

Last Friday, we took to the corridors of the Yorkshire Museum, armed with sixty-one paper surveys, six name badges, five notebooks, four boxes of bribing chocolates, two laptops, two dictaphones - and all the pens one could ever want! Our mission: Gain feedback from visitors to the 'After the Ice' exhibition at the Yorkshire Musuem. Weeks had gone into preparation for the opening of this exhibition, both on our end with the films and the museum's end with the exhibition itself, and now it was time to gauge the impact! We were excited and rushed bravely into the field of heritage studies research! Here, we encountered our first foe: Mr. Sun.

The Boss: Mr. Sun. He tried hard to win this battle, but we
came out with enough research to be statistically valid anyway.
Photograph taken by NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Found at: http://www.8planets.co.uk/facts-about-the-sun

Mr. Sun decided that last Friday would be a fine day to shine brightly upon the city of York, with the result that everyone was lounging around OUTSIDE the museum! Therefore, in the entirety of the day we only managed to collect twenty-six surveys, two interviews, and a few pages of observations. Despite our relative lack of respondents, we undertook analysis anyway. This morning, in two hours we created a full evaluative report on our survey, interview, and observational results. Doing this work taught us a great deal about the techniques for analyzing quantitative versus qualitative data and integrating both types into discussion. Our top-tier, definitely-publishable-as-is, strikingly awesome, field-changing report may be found below:

Evaluation of Visitor Responses to the Yorkshire Museum Exhibition 'After the Ice'

Our overall pageviews by country. We never
thought we'd have a global blog!

As we're drawing to the end of this process, we'd like to thank our blog followers and talk about what we've learned from blogging. Our blog reached a far wider audience than we'd ever expected, reaching people from the UK to Venezuela! Over the past six weeks, we've blogged ten times, with a total of 513 views and four highly appreciated comments, and one wonderful follower! This experience has really helped us in the process of producing different kinds of work, especially embarking as novice filmmakers on a very public project. Being so public about our filmmaking process and other heritage endeavours, along with receiving constant feedback via our blog and professionals during our classes, required us to express our ideas clearly and be much more creative and engaging. While we'd feared the public face of our work would be overwhelming, we actually found it to be really empowering to connect with the public and share our ideas. To all of our readers, and everyone who has helped us with this process, we offer a big THANK YOU!

Our Heritage Practice module has been an amazing experience, and we would definitely encourage future students to embark on Heritage Studies. If you don't believe us, check out this cool film! Gavin Repton, a filmmaker with the Yorkshire Museum, followed us through our filmmaking journey and has created a short film documenting our heroic journey through the land of the unknown heritage studies.

Star Carr Project Video Link

Thanks so much again for following our blog. It has been totally awesome. There's only one stop left on our journey now: the year-end exhibition on 19 June. Check out 'GroundBreaking' in King's Manor G/60 on 19 June at 4 PM! This is the archaeological event of the year - you won't want to miss this! THERE WILL BE GREAT POSTERS, PLUS FREE WINE AND FOOD!