Heather Hughes, Dan Ellin and Nicky Barr from the IBCC recently met with people from Centre Screen and Redman Design at a studio in Manchester to see how the exhibition’s interactive and audio-visual elements are progressing.

Members of the IBCC, Redman Design and Centre Screen exhibition design team.

Centre Screen showed us their soundscapes and immersives, the films to introduce the exhibition, and the interactive ‘Bomber Crew Challenge.’ It was wonderful to see ideas we have been discussing and researching for so long begin to take shape. The studio was large enough to mock up the Chadwick Centre’s three exhibition spaces, so for the first time we could see and hear the interactives and audio visuals almost as they will be.

It was especially pleasing to see our animated map of the bombing war in Europe on a seven metre screen, but the highlight of the day was testing the ‘Bomber Crew Challenge’. Unfortunately when they took part in the challenge, Heather and Dan’s operations ended with their aircraft ditching in off the coast of Norfolk.

Meanwhile, work on other parts of the exhibition continues. The team are choosing and editing clips from the IBCC’s collection of oral history interviews for the exhibition’s ‘Orchestra of Voices’, and writing exhibition content that will be accessed by visitors through an APP or on the centre’s handheld tablets.

Dan Ellin, IBCC Archive and Exhibition Curator