Motion pictures at en exhibition

In the project "Motion pictures at an exhibition" we created a digitally based exhibition, inspired by Modest Mussorgsky’s classical music suite called “Pictures at an Exhibition”. -This we were able to produce not only in our own countries in local galleries and museums but also via the internet as an interactive museum. We used historic pictures from our local areas and they gave them a new current life. This was conveyed by means of new photographs and paintings, historical and contemporary music as well as short self recorded movies. - By using pictures that we collected, we were able to distinguish a situation and discuss why this situation had arisen. Pupils then decided how these situations could have played out. Doink​ green screen program allowed us to put our actors in a suitable background. All of this came together in an iPad based inter active digital application that allowed the visitor to go from room to room and slide to slide in order to experience the historical and the contemporary image. - This was made possible using Thinglink 360, which worked very well after testing other alternatives. We were even involving documentary films of all the processes explained step by step. This was so that others could learn how to organize their time and possibly make such films. - All the work was filmed were possible, and interviewing experts under lighting with cameras and sound allowed the pupils to get an insight into secondary learning techniques with regard to technical abilities. Four countries, Lithuania, Spain/Catalonia, England, and Aland / Finland, took part, involving a total of roughly 140 people directly, not including other stakeholders. The schools were of a varied range of social, economic and cultural backgrounds. - The schools were from varied economic and social backgrounds​ and in Blackburn diverse ethnic backgrounds,this allowed pupils to see how other cultures are. We worked through the idea of workshops, coherence of documentary films and presentation days aided by digital tools in order to complete the following steps; Painting, Photography, music creation and music reforming, filming with scenography and clothing creation with properties creation, sound production, digital app working and editing and the finale with live exhibition and digital app release. -All of the above points of work were accomplished as we anticipated. We the teachers were responsible for all teaching in pairs (internationally) this allowed us to use our own expertise in the above fields and share it to our Erasmus colleagues. We worked as planned in groups and pairs, both within the domestic classroom situation but also internationally across borders. The pupils were responsible for the teaching material they produced and wished to share via film. -Pupils did work both in groups and varied international groups throughout our visits.This information was brought back by pupils to their home countries in order to disseminate information to their peers. This was centered around co-operation via digital work. Portfolio work, handmade or digital, that allowed us and pupils to monitor the process. - All of our pupils produced a folder of work (portfolio) which not only explained their intellectual but also their personal development through out the process and their individual visits. The results were to envisage a complete set of documentary films including a completed production of a digital exhibition and its process. - This was achieved and can be seen on the web site. The project was such a popular concept that it was presented for apple at their conference in Austin USA by our own colleagues ADEs who were involved in the project. At the UNESCO conference in Zurich our project was presented by the app producer Thinglink as a practical way of sharing information to a wider audience. Via the various computer-based platforms we could share our project, its findings, ​and results to various groups around the world. By working together with local education authorities we could also share findings at local, national and international levels. Stakeholders such as local museums and galleries helped us to spread findings to other interested groups. Access to this was something that was beneficial to all involved in the foreseeable future. -As a result of the MoPic project our own Museum in Mariehamn was intrigued by the usage of digital information in the way we produced it and is looking into the possibilities of using similar techniques in the future.​​​