The Big Museum Takeover - Week 1, Day 4

Lights, Labels and Blogging

By Jack Welch, Volunteer Press Officer

Ken applies the  last touches to the
timeline.

As the end of the week approached, Thursday promised to be an action packed and the most rigorous day, as the team at DYR faced skills from collaborative writing to precise cutting and slicing of the all-important labels. Firstly, some members of the team got to the task of cleaning a paint splattered floor and making some of the finer touches to our timeline. Lee and Jenny were the first members to see that the miniature blots on the floor were scraped off. Our excellent museum technician, Ken, proved his ability in a nice, sharp measurement for the big centre piece on the wall. After the group had completed as much of this as they could that day, Liz imparted her wise experience from teaching as Jack continued in his efforts to write the blog for the previous days. Soon, the whole group got involved and contributed their own spin on the stories for that day - Jenny was particularly enthusiastic with her eagle-eyed amendments and the update was successfully completed.  

Rosie and Lorna get to work on the
boxing glove letters.

Ashley and Edward at gadget
central.

As the afternoon got underway, Edward had received his long-awaited LED light to control the interactive and most technical part of this exhibition. Edward and Ashley worked to get the circuit functioning. One curious feature was an invisible light that sends a signal to the television.  More developments on this as they come. Later on, Pippa put her instructor hat on as she taught Lee and Jenny the fine skill of label cutting.She thankfully had the clever foresight of using dispensable labels as they both  struggled in the difficulty of this challenge. Jon later came to see how the team were getting on and managed to demonstrate a completely alternative method of doing the cut-outs. It was not at all surprising to see that by the end of the afternoon, the team were very confused as to which method would best fit them. As this hectic objective was  going on, Lorna and Rosie were in a much more crafty mood as they stuck gold lettering onto our stand-out boxing gloves. This was much harder than it looked and took much time as they paid close attention to not damaging the fragile stickers.

With the day coming to an end, the group vacated to Routes as they watched the recently produced film of Loders Youth Club and all the fun and excitement that goes on there. It was a very pleasant end to the working week, as well as the day alone, as the group were given a well-deserved long weekend off for all their assistance in  preparing for the exhibition on July 14th. Until the next week, a big cheer for DYR!

Pippa expresses her frustration with the
label training!