BMAG virtual tour workshop

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We felt as though the website was a little difficult to navigate because you can’t get a full screen view of the artwork is really tiny and you can’t zoom in. If you could click on the art and get an info page with a clear picture it would help, get a better understanding of the work.

The rendering of the building itself is amazing and it does feel like you’re in the building, the details in the floor, ceiling, railing etc is incredible. However, this takes away from the experience of viewing the work especially when the work is in cases, the reflection is distracting and distorts the shape and makes it difficult to get a full sense of the work. It’s almost as if there was more consideration around the representation of the building than the experience and clarity of the artwork.

Our group (Rebecca Mccomb, Natasha Young, and I) wanted the two workshops: the one for the digital tour and the one for the stables to work together/ have a similar concept.

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Workshop 1 C is for… creation (BMAG online workshop)

For the digital tour we decided that the workshop should be makes something that would function and make sense without our presence because of the online element, we needed to make something that is self-explanatory.

Ideas:

A is for … archive

A is for … archaeology

F is for … finding faces

C is for … creation- we decided to go with this one we asked the kids to create their own scene based on images found from the artwork and to write a story describing it. 

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Workshop 2 F is for... Folklore

I created a worksheet with mythical creatures for the children to draw out their mythical creature,  on the sheet there were images of pre-existing creatures like the Loch Ness monster, centaur, minotaur, faun and others. We asked them to use the animals at the stable as inspiration and then make the creature mainly with materials found at the stables, things like feathers, hay, twigs and rock.

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