For our first testing with the kids in early January we created two different “scenes” – the “homepage” as I call it at the moment which you can see in the video below (first testing with nursery children). On the homepage you have the “Planet of the Beetlebuns” and when you approach it houses will pop up and disappear again. There are also some creatures and a comet. Ultimately in February the children will be able to “enter” in the different buildings and landscapes of the planet. In these videos we tested out one house – this is by far not ready and here we are only testing other elements like the moon/sun, the starts and the blue monster that will ultimatley end up in different scenes. The windows in the house will become interactive for the final installation.
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Second testing day – and now in colour
So on the second day of testing with kids we had 3-4 year olds and we started to see what happens if we have more children on the carpet – here we have 7. We also had the time overnight to make the “Planet of the Beetlebuns” more colourful as we both thought it was a bit too industrial – much more fun, don’t you think?
On both days we staggered the different elements, meaning we started with one, added a second and finally added a third. After the technically very simply comet caused such stir on the first and slightly distracted from other more subtle elements we decided not to start with the comet as we did the day before but to start with the planet itself and the appearing and disappearing houses then we added the creatures (flies) and finally introduced the comet. We also changed the conditions of the planet. The day before when a child approached the planet who could only either get each house out once or disappear once then it needed to go off the carpet again to be able to trigger it again. This time the chilrden could get the houses out and in again as often as they liked (that is why you can see much more movement with the houses than in the earlier video).