Original sign:
Woman and boy came over and looked at station, read sign and took a picture of the station - did not interact with the app.
Man and two kids came, man read the sign and told kids to draw a picture on the white board, took multiple photos, drew a new unrelated picture and took more photos on iPad.
Man and girl came over, man read the sign, girl drew a picture on small white board while the man guided the girl through the app, making big changes to her drawing as she went along. Man then asked girl if he could make a movie and he did one with smaller changes.
Second Sign:
Third Sign:
Man and girl came over, wrote "AOIFE" and began taking pictures without looking at the signs. They then erased the sign and the Man looked at the video and two signs above the white board but did not continue to engage with the station.
I found during my observations that people would read the original stop motion sign in the workshop however it did not provide enough information on the method of making a stop motion film. During previous observation in the workshop, people would read the sign, draw a picture on the white board, take a photograph and then either draw a new, unrelated picture or would be done. I thought this might be due to the text "design your world on the white board" with no instruction on the idea that stop motion involves change over time in order to create a product. Because of this, I decided to change the sign to demonstrate a simple stop motion creation through pictures. I designed a sign with simple instructions and frames demonstrating how guests frames may look for their stop motion film. Unfortunately nobody interacted with the exhibit while that sign was up. My last idea for signage was to incorporate both the original stop motion sign and the example frame sign. I suspected that just having the example frame sign would not provide enough information on the stop motion activity therefore I incorporated both signs with the through that with an example, guests would be more likely to create a successful stop motion film. Unfortunately I was only able to observe one interaction during this trial.
In addition to signage, I made observations regarding the stop motion films playing on the tv next to the stop motion station. I thought that these films would be great inspiration for guests when creating their own film however I was only able to observe one individual watching the video.
One of the challenges I encountered during this activity was the number of guests interacting with the station. I had guests interact with the station while the original sign was up but only one interaction with the modified signs simply because it was slow in the workshop and the people that did come in were focused on the drawing activity.
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