| Video and interactive
creative direction by David Bickerstaff
Client: Royal
Observatory
Exhibition concept and design: Thomas
Matthews
AV and interactive production: Newangle
Interactive software developers: HMC
Interactive
Planetarium software: Evans
and Sutherland
Audio design: Illustrious
Company
Touchscreen interactives, multi-screen
interactives, multi-screen video projections, interactive table
using IR detection and spacialised sound.
The Royal Observatory has undergone a spectacular £15 million
redevelopment - the Time and Space Project. The project is now complete
with new galleries, an education centre, and the centrepiece is
a 120-seat, state-of-the-art planetarium.
Newangle where asked to write and direct the
inaugural Planetarium show and where commissioned to create several
interactive and linear programmes that explain the science of Astronomy.
'The Astronomers Table' is an interactive that allows the visitor
to select topics and listen to actual Astronomers describing space
concepts. The content is activated by the visitor placing a 'puck'
over a hotspot.
'Build a Space Probe' is a three player game
that allows the visitor to select one of three missions into space
and choose the correct instruments for that mission and launch their
own probe. 'Concepts of Space' is a large three screen immersive
linear video that covers the key concepts of the universe and introduces
the visitor to the galleries.
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