00:00So today I am here doing something that I have never done before and I'm flying a spaceship
00:05to the MShed Bristol to the Space Shanty exhibition in the heart of Bristol's harbourside.
00:11I guess let's give this a go. So it's a project that I devised with Bristol's completely in mind.
00:19It's a walkthrough, story, book, interactive experience. It features a character called Bemi
00:29who's a stowaway on a boat but then he's got dreams of going into space and he's a cheeky
00:33chappy little rat and he's going to guide everybody around and then I've built,
00:40basically written a story and then built, done some filming with a puppet and then we've built
00:46a world that he inhabits so each film is sitting with an installation.
00:54Yeah you're going to go on an adventure, you're going to hear Bemi's stories,
00:59you're gonna help him through because sometimes he might get himself into a bit of pickle,
01:03he might need a little bit of help to get out so he's got some tasks for everybody.
01:08Yeah and you're gonna maybe do a little bit of flying in space, things like that.
01:11So behind me is one of these interactive screens that guides you through the process of the ship
01:17facing a tidal wave and to the left of me there is lots of ropes with the idea that you can
01:25practice all your nautical knots so that is definitely something that I'm gonna have a go
01:30and here I actually don't know what they are so I'm gonna have a little look.
01:36Oh okay so it's a bit like the the ship's windows and inside them they have loads of facts so
01:45I'll definitely be learning a few things that I didn't know today.
01:48Basically it's born out of my interest in well the universe and space but also Bristol's role
01:56in it so the story throughout the story are Peppard's little tiny hints about Bristol's
02:02involvement, the scientists that might have worked into taking people into space, the research that's
02:08been done here, the satellites that have been made here. Bristol's got a huge sort of involvement
02:14with the space race basically. It's a bit of a collab between the commissioning from the museum
02:21and the space was empty over the summer so they really wanted something to happen in there that
02:25was gonna you know be sort of fun but a bit educational and then also that helped me write
02:30the story so I sort of went on a journey from the boats so the character Bemy he starts in a boat
02:37and then he goes into the space and there's a history there's some tying in points there where
02:42boats and sailors used to navigate using the stars so there's a kind of a plot line there
02:48in the story as well. I guess all that is left to do now is to enjoy the view of space
02:53with my friend Bemy in my own space car at the M Shed.
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