Constructing our exhibit!

Here are some photos from when Kara and I had met together at her apartment to put together our exhibit. Our exhibit was particularly large, so when we had first put it together and gave it a dry run before actually implementing it we found ourselves a little nervous on whether or not it would fit in Hibbard Hall. Luckily our exhibit fit just perfectly on implementation day! Take a look at the photos! Thanks! (Please excuse the photo quality, they were taken from my cell-phone)

At Kara's Apartment:

Our Implementation Day:

Here are several photos from our exhibit, including one that the history department took and put up on their Facebook page! I think the exhibit was a great success and we were both very happy with the results :)

Some of the Christmas Carols Sung during the Truce

Here are a couple youtube links that are some of the Christmas carols sung during the truce. I thought that maybe having these carols playing on a loop while we implement our exhibit might be a cool way to help create a holiday spirited ambiance of our exhibit. After all, we're trying to create a interactive environment for our visitors and I thought that perhaps having these songs play (at an appropriate volume of course) would allow for a little more interactive environment for our visitors. Go ahead and check them out!

Links

Stille Nacht (Silent Night in German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsFrHLzHIg

Sleep Holy Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oel-4To4U

Videos to implement with our exhibit proposal.

Here I have included two links to videos we plan to use in our exhibit proposal. These videos are for an English grocery company called Sanisbury, but they help highlight and re-enact the events of the Christmas Truce of 1914. The first link is the re-enactment of the events, and the second video is a video that goes behind the scenes of how the commercial/video was created and provides some testimony of family members that had loved ones experience the Christmas Truce of 1914.


Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1YvnfcFVs

A way to make our exhibit a little more pleasing to the eye?

Hey Kara,

So I was walking home last night from my evening class and I came across a house that had Christmas lights on it. I know that we're creating our exhibit that highlights the Christmas Truce of 1914, so seeing the Christmas lights on someone's home kind of inspired me so to say. I think that for exhibit table we should implement the use of Christmas lights just because it seems fitting for the theme of which our exhibit will be discussing to our audience anyway, I even managed to snap a photo. I'll include the photo I took from my phone. (Don't mind the cell phone quality).

My mom works in marketing and I thought some of their practices could be used in our exhibit. From what I have learned from my mom is that it's all about how you present your material to your audience. Colors, layout, and the wording of labels need to be visually appealing to draw people in. When we create our visual aides, we need to find a way that catches people's attention, and come up with a "catchy title" for the exhibit. The use of social media is important as well. We could create a guided snapchat story that visitors put together to share their experience with a certain part of the exhibit.

I am finding great pictures today, hoping this will kick-start my creative thinking this morning. I really like the headline of the second picture and I think it would be great to formulate a question around that for the display where visitors can answer on post-it notes.

I love this illustration by the London News and think we should incorporate it into the exhibit somehow.

Hey Josh!
When I went home this weekend and talked about our project to my mom, she had a great idea. Since it will be Christmas time and we will be discussing the Christmas truce, what if we had visitors to our exhibit write Christmas cards to soldiers who are currently deployed? We could get ROTC involved and see what we would have to do and where to send it and so on.

Josh and I had a major brainstorming session tonight, trying to figure out our focus and what information we want to present. We came up with a possible display after looking at a Pinterest board Josh found and went from there. We thought asking a question and then having visitors answer with post-it notes would be a great way to see what they took away from our exhibit. We also decided it should not be a question purely based on the facts that we presented but on the concept and what it meant to them.

Hey Kara,

So before our meeting tonight, I was doing some searching on the internet on just some maybe back up ideas for our interactive exhibit. I know that we had originally planned on using a mock soccer game to facilitate the idea and the celebration of the Christmas Truce of 1914 during WWI. I still want to create an exhibit around this historical event just because it is the anniversary and I think that an exhibit related to this would really interest people being the Holiday season when we give our exhibit its actual test. I did some good searching and stumbled across a pintrest (haha I know...weird for a guy to go on there) page and it actually had some pretty cool examples of some interactive exhibits that I think we could maybe model after or combine a few to create our own original idea. Here's the link though, let me know your thoughts on any of the exhibit examples. Nonetheless, I will see you tonight in the library for our brainstorming session!

Link:

http://www.pinterest.com/gemmy20/exhibit-interactive-ideas/