After a bit of a rough trip up for some of us, we arrived to fairly decent weather in Dunedin. Most of my class ended up going with Chris and Bex to the museum for an intro to the planetarium, a tour of the museum and a tour of an art gallery. The planetarium was really cool, up until we got shifted to the front and had to break our necks to see anything! lol. It was fascinating to hear about the process of creating the film, then splitting it and overlapping to create a seamless dome. The software run through downstairs afterwards was great to see, a reminder that even the "big wigs" use software that we have access to everyday through SIT. The idea of an internship interested me as well as a future goal.
The next activity was a rush tour through some of the museum, which I had already been through fairly frequently due to living in Dunedin for half my life. The extra information from the guide was new, if not relevant to animation in any way at all. Maybe more time for a tour next year would help it feel more like a fun class event?
The art gallery tour to me was not really of interest at all. The gallery director speeding through a description of the authors isnt really something that I found relevant to my studies either, or interesting for my personal life. I can see the benefits for Visual art students, but again there was no tie in to animation/gaming for me. The gaming choice was my top choice until I found out that due to limited numbers, it would be an entire day of film companies and only 1hr of a game centric activity.
For a first trip I think it went good, and i hope that with time it gets refined into something that is beneficial for all the students with lots of cool options to visit.
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