We've moved!

Hey everyone!
It's been an exciting time for Stories of the World Durham. So exciting we haven't updated the blog in a while! But fear not! All of the latest news and gossip can be found at:

http://www.journeysofdiscovery.org.uk/the-projects/made-in-china/updates.html

So come around to our new home - we'll stick the kettle on!

Interviews with the Chinese Association of Durham

Launch! Blast off!

Last Saturday we launched our exhibition, 'Illness and Medicine'! It was a great night with loads of friends and family there to support us. The project team delivered a brief presentation before cutting the ribbon and opening the exhibition to the public. The handheld audio-guides proved really popular, as did the touch screen computer! It was fantastic to see everything fall in to place after several months of hard work! Here's a few photos of the night!

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Today we have arranged the objects in our exhibition! WOOOOO! We all really enjoyed this task, it was another chance to work as a team. Also it really gave us the feeling that our work has made an impact.

Here we go again

It's been a while since our last update, so here's one to cover the last three months, written by two inexperienced members of the group; therefore go easy on us. Good plan, ay?

After the Christmas holidays, we had a mammoth 5 hour session, in which new arrivals (us 2 + 3 others) enjoyed the buffet for the first time! In this session we started to plan floor arrangements and digital outputs. However, looking back at the blog's main page, I realise you've heard the outcome of this: the animation, but we also decided on creating some voice recordings to explain about the objects in the display.

Since then we've had a fair few more sessions, including several visits to the stores and object handling sessions. We've also developed the animation plans, including throwing around ideas for a main character and rejecting Barney the dinosaur as this... as depressing as this might be.

Just 2 weeks ago, we had a professional animator, Christian Darkin, come to help get some further ideas about our animation. Since then, he has sent sample images from the animation for us to view, and it looks amazing! But that's as much as we're telling...

On the same day, we also had a photographer to show London what we do in a session:

Christian, the animator

Idea discussion for animation

Hard at work with planning

That's almost everything we've done since January, so Good Day to you!

Animation!

It's been a while..... how are you all? Last Saturday we decided to have an animation for our digital output. We also started to think about the exhibition display cases and what we want in each one. We had loads of different ideas for the animation, but decided on one telling the story of 'illness and medicine' in the different cultures we have been studying. Then this Saturday we began planning and created a storyboard to send to the animators. We don't want to give too much away, other than say it's going to be amazing!

We're up at the library!

Several weeks before Christmas a few of us went down to Durham University library to put up some posters showing everybody what we have been up to. We were given a good spot next to the main entrance, so hopefully plenty of students and visitors will see what we've been up to! Here are some images of our library exhibition, which will run from December 2010 until late February 2011!