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The Walt Disney Family Museum
Storytelling with Sound
Project Group
Client
Date
October 2009Location
San Francisco, CAExhibit Design
Rockwell GroupTags
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Through four interactive music stands surrounding images of Walt, playful creative activities reveal the various ways Disney employed sound and music in his animated features.
Following his pioneering success synchronizing sound with animation, Walt Disney was committed to the importance of the role sound and music played in storytelling. Through four different game-like activities, visitors can experience how Disney used tempos, moods, themes, and lyrics to help tell his stories. A central monolithic screen features animated images of Walt working side-by-side with animators and composers. At any one of the four stands surrounding Walt visitors can browse the four sheet music covers to pick one of the activities. Visitors manipulate a metronome to match storyboard sequences with tempos in the “Step in Time” activity, and pick records to match musical themes with characters in “How Do You Do?” In “Fun With Music” visitors match the mood of an animated pencil-sketch scene from Dumbo with the appropriate melody, and they listen to the words and music of “Love Is a Song” to decide which drawings correspond with the story the song tells.
Press & Awards
Themed Entertainment Association Annual Thea Award, OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, November 2010“Inside Walt Disney's World,” The Wall Street Journal, Ann Landi, October 13, 2009Interactive displays demonstrate how Disney joined the vanguard of the talking-picture revolution by creating an animated film with synchronized sound.
“Walt Disney Museum in San Francisco Documents the Man Behind Mickey Mouse,” The Daily Mail, Jo Tweedy, September 29, 2009For younger visitors, the museum has interactive displays which enables them to sync music to cartoons in the way the masterful animator himself would once have done.
“New Museum Reveals the Man Behind the Mouse,” Silicon Valley Mercury News, Chuck Barney, September 28, 2009Every gallery is crammed with touch screens and interactive exhibits designed to bring static drawings and documents to life.
“Disney Family Museum puts focus on Walt,” The San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Hartlaub, September 25, 2009If that sounds boring, don't worry...there are 21st century touches everywhere...Touch-screen monitors allow users to browse through relic documents that would normally be kept under glass.
Credits
- Designers
- Martin Linde, Erica Hassinger
- Motion Designer
- Martin Linde
- Technology Director
- Thomas Wester
- Developer
- Vance Feldman
- Producer
- Jennifer Guibord
- Video Editors
- Tim Kviz, David Waingarten
- Production Artist
- Rebecca Rosen
- Production/QA Assistant
- Elizabeth Bourke
- Content Development
- Walt Disney Family Foundation
- A/V Media Design
- Batwin & Robin
- A/V Integration
- BBI
- Exhibit Design
- Rockwell Group
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