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Have you ever ever questioned how they make realistic-looking wounds on Casualty? Or what it’s wish to current the climate in entrance of a inexperienced display? Or perhaps how the costumes out of your favorite TV reveals are made?
On Saturday 11 February, you’ll get the prospect to seek out out all of this in addition to heaps extra ideas and methods from the world of TV manufacturing at a free occasion going down at Nationwide Museum Cardiff.
BBC 100 in Wales: Life Via The Lens is a special occasion crammed with hands-on actions exhibiting among the magic that takes place behind the scenes on the earth of broadcasting. Guests of all ages are welcome, with free actions working from 10am till 4pm. The vast majority of actions you’ll be able to simply flip up and get entangled with, though a couple of will must be booked prematurely (see under for extra particulars).
Life Via The Lens is a part of BBC 100 in Wales, a implausible exhibition at the moment working at Nationwide Museum Cardiff, celebrating a century of the broadcaster in Wales.
We visited within the Christmas holidays and liked the array of costumes and props from lots of the superb programmes which have been made right here, akin to outfits worn by the forged of His Darkish Supplies, the Physician Who Tardis, in addition to old school televisions and radios, characters from basic kids’s tv reveals throughout the many years, and even a duplicate of the BBC Wales information studio, the place you’ll be able to sit and have a go at studying the headlines.
The exhibition opened on 10 December 2022 and runs till 16 April 2023. It’s free to go to, both by reserving on-line prematurely or by turning up on the day.
As you’ll be able to see from these pictures, it’s an attractive and informative exhibition with heaps that guests can get entangled with.
The Life Via the Lens occasion goes one step additional, with individuals working within the tv business readily available to share their experiences of the business, with a lot of actions guests can check out for themselves.
The next actions are all free and also you don’t have to ebook; you’ll be able to simply flip up and have a go.
- Have a small pretend wound and discover out extra about particular results make-up.
- Play a sound results recreation – are you able to match the story to the sound?
- Discover out extra in regards to the Moon Touchdown in 1969 – one of many greatest occasions ever proven on the BBC.
- Create your personal information bulletin and have a go at presenting it from the enduring BBC Wales newsdesk within the exhibition.
- Turn into the subsequent David Attenborough and spot the wildlife across the museum on a pure world themed path.
- Color and lower out a TV themed craft to take dwelling with you.
- Strike a pose and take a selfie carrying a duplicate costume from a favorite BBC present.
- Are you able to guess the theme tune as you hearken to music carried out by college students from the Royal Welsh Faculty of Music and Drama? 11am and 2pm.
- Create your personal climate bulletin utilizing inexperienced display results.
- Are you sitting comfortably? Come and hearken to some Jackanory tales.
- ‘Flip Off Your TVs’ Via dance and spoken phrase, Motion Artist Patrik Gabo shares a narrative that appears to the longer term by filtering by way of information and the way in which during which it shapes our hopes and goals. Can we ever be united? Can we think about a world during which joyful information and occasions exchange tragedy.12pm and 1pm on the information desk within the BBC 100 Exhibition.
The next actions are timed and locations have to be booked prematurely.
- Costuming masterclass: from flat to fabulous! – by Caroline Thomas. Caroline demonstrates the artwork of costume making. She’ll speak about how she got here to be a dressing up maker and exhibit the method within the masterclass. 12+ Ebook Tickets
- Particular results make-up masterclass. This masterclass can be given by the lead make-up artist on Casualty. She’ll speak a bit of bit about her profession path after which remodel a mannequin, describing intimately the processes behind the magic of particular results make-up. 12+ Ebook Tickets
- Guided excursions of the Dr Who filming areas within the Museum. Be a part of a younger Physician Who fanatic as he takes you on a energetic tour across the museum in English. 6+ Ebook Tickets
- Discuss: The Perils of Time Journey. Time Journey sounds nice – however it’s way more harmful than you suppose! Come and hearken to a energetic dialogue of time journey given by Phill Wallace of Cardiff Astronomical Society. 12+ Ebook Tickets
- Discuss: The Science of Physician Who. Come and study the actual science that (kind of) underpins our favorite Time Lord. A tongue-in-cheek have a look at the science given by Phill Wallace of Cardiff Astronomical Society. 12+ Ebook Tickets
With a lot tv being made right here in Wales, this can be a implausible alternative for households to be taught a bit of extra about how such reveals are created, from costumes and sound results to areas and presenting. And, who is aware of, guests to this behind-the-scenes occasion may discover themselves impressed to enterprise right into a profession in TV manufacturing, making the reveals of the longer term.
BBC 100 in Wales: Via The Lens takes place on Saturday 11 February, from 10am-4pm, at Nationwide Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Entry is free. Extra info on the web site right here.
BBC 100 in Wales exhibition runs till 16 April 2023, entry is free. Extra info right here.
