Final Report
Last weekend saw a fantastic event at Loftus Town Hall. As part of Heritage Open Days the Town Hall played host to a range of exhibits from community history groups downstairs and the fabulous Octorama was housed upstairs. In the Council Chamber there was a presentation of the wonderful image archive from Loftus Digital Village. Overall the event had over 500 visitors with the public on Saturday and schools visits on Monday. The eight screens featured content from East Cleveland communities and 8 speakers delivered sounds and stories from local people recorded by Skinningrove History Group. On screen were images from the Skinningrove, Carlin How, Margrove Park, Moorsholme, Brotton, Loftus and Marske Digital Villages. This had been a culmination of over two months work by volunteers including most of Loftus Town Council to build a portable Octorama.
Directly following the exhibition the Octorama featured again at the “Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival” in Sheffield. See below.
The End
What goes up must come down only it came down a good deal faster than it went up.
You can see this story from start to finish by clicking here.
Schools Visits
Today we had hundreds of school children visit.
The Event
Wow, what a day! A few traumas at first, we had a projector go down and then two laptops and a speaker but we survived and everyone loved it Quite a few visitors came through the door.
The Build
We built this Octorama !
Elected Volunteers
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The Octorama was built today and we’re good to go for tomorrow event. Most of the team are
Lofus Town Councilors.
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PLAN C
Another possibility.
PLAN B
A possible alternative approach to hanging the screens.
Sneak Previews
Here are two previews of the exhibition taking place on September 11th and 13th as part of the Heritage Open Day at Loftus Town Hall. . Although we can’t do the 8 screens and speaker of the Octorama justice here, these two clips may give you a flavour of the event
NB – the audio and video content are separate entities. They are independent of each other although occasionaly they seem to synch. This is unintentional.
This clips now feature pictures from the East Cleveland Image Archive and John Lawson, readings from the Skinningrove and Carlin How Schools log books by children from Whitcliffe Primary School and recordings by Skinningrove History Group all put together in a soundscape by Steve Thompson. There are also videos from Skinnimation, TVCM and the Straad Players.
Production Notes
And if you really want to see paint drying there’s my production notes wiki. Some people will find this interesting: honest !