Bradford's National Media Museum

As I stated in previous blogs, as part of the Rugby AM Academy we have to have days in the actual field doing real life work experience and attend events/venues linking to either sport or media related and then review them.

Today with the academy we went to Bradford's National Media Museum which is home to over 3.5 million items of historical significance with 7 floors of traditional cameras, what goes on behind the scenes of TV, how films were created, animation, photography, timelines of progression of technology and so on.

The aim of the day was obviously to try and learn as much as possible about the equipment that we use and where it came from and basically to try and remind us (as in teenagers) that technology hasn't always been advanced and that we are so lucky that we live in a world that is now so easy to take a picture or record a video on a phone!

The museum itself was very informative I thought as I said it shown the progression of things such as animation films had to be drawn out sketch by sketch many years ago whereas now most animation are made on computers with technology.

The main positive thing I thought was that the museum is suitable for ages, it has different sections which are attractions for all different ages. For example, their was obviously all the historical dates where by adults could read, games sections where children could learn how games such as Super Mario and Pacman were created and interactive family exhibitions such as 'in your face' which teaches you about expressions and the human bodies. Another positive thing I thought about the museum was that it was very visual, like there was manikans and statues portraying the historical events which made it easier to picture what things used to be like. The main bonus of the museum was of course that it was free!

There was however a couple of weaknesses of the day, I thought that once you were inside the museum each floor wasn't sign posted very well. For example, we tried going through a couple of fire exits by accident because we couldn't find the right door to get us on to the next exhibitions. Also parking was an absolute nightmare as the museum is in the city centre their isn't exactly a car park on the doorstep so it took a while to have to be able to find a metre on the street in which to park and pay.

In conlusion, I think the museum was a successful day and I would recmmond not only for the museum side of it but there was also a café and a gift shop so families could make a full day out of it.