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the Edutainer®
An Interior Design professional with many years’ experience within a wide range of sectors, the greater part of my career has been spent applying my built-up skills in various roles for the conception. design and delivery of “edutainment” based experiences within visitor attractions.
What is “Edutainment”?
Much has been and is still being written about edutainment and particularly the pros and cons. A personal middle ground description is that it is a form of philosophy that often involves activity and/or entertainment that is structured in a multitude of ways and forms to educate as well as to amuse. Common mainstream mediums that apply edutainment based approaches includes:-

• television programs,
• computer and video games, films, music,
• websites
• multimedia software
• visitor and entertainment attractions

Examples might be guided nature tours that entertain while educating participants on animal life and habitats, visitor attractions that deliver and reinforce determined messages by providing visitor experiences (images below from some of my projects), or a video game that teaches children conflict resolution, mathematics, reading skills etc.

The The The wide range of “mechanisms” I have utilised to deliver edutainment based experiences within visitor attractions includes:-

• Interactives
• Multimedia
• Virtual & Augmented Reality
• Animatronics
• Sets – Props – themed areas & items
• Sensory Interaction Elements
• Cinema – film - video
• Sound – Lighting - Special Effects
• Dark Rides
• 3D-4D experiences
• Cast Member/roleplay
• video booth & role play entertainment
• Graphics of all different sizes, shapes, materials and applications

A small number of examples of my designed and concept created edutainment works...below

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MY LONG-TERM PROJECT:-
Build and maintain the Edutainer IMAGES SHOWCASE

Joe Rosenthal image

THE POWER OF THE STILL IMAGE
 
 It is the strength of the single image that has always fascinated me, for it generally has to stand alone on its own merits and seek, even demand attention, interpretation and appreciation, without relying on engineered “bells'  whistles or the supporting stimuli of video frames.
 
THE STILL IMAGE
Taking still images enables you generally to move around the subject looking for different angles that you want to capture for a multitude of purposes and uses. With video you more readily find a spot and let the action move and you capture it on moving film. A still image captures a brief second whereas a video captures an event sequence. In the same amount of time given to a still shooter and a video shooter the still shooter will generally end up with more variety of images captured and spend more time on the examination, interpretation and the final state production of each individual image; an image that is not relying on masses of supportive “frames” to support that special moment. 
Appreciation of a still image demands pause and an indeterminant period of reflection, whereas with video the motion can wash over you, requiring  freeze-frame, slow motion or replay for a more indepth evaluation of the most powerful moments. A still image is generally “a capture in isolation”, relying on the strength of that capture to provide sufficient information to tell any intended story.

 Referring to the image on the left - it can be argued that still images are remembered better than any video. One striking example is the Joe Rosenthal still image of the American flag being raised on the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima during WW2. A video was also shot of the event but it is the dramatic still image that is the iconic record of that event in history.

MY IMAGES
For many years in my professional career I have marvelled at and used images produced by others. With this showcase I am embarking upon my own personally exciting journey in image creation.

I dedicate more time to and particularly enjoying taking what I think to be an appropriate image with the potential for “stretching” that image into often many versions of abstraction, to produce - DIGITAL ART.
If my images , and particularly the digital art abstractions, entice you to pause, study and even visualise unexpected objects and elements within the subjectmatter (which I find is often the case), and that doing so both delights and entertains you, then I will be happy.

A SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS OF EACH PAGE OF MY IMAGES SHOWCASE

ABSTRACT-Graphic - Appropriate images selected to abstract to varying degrees:-

• REALISM - moderate abstraction
• DIGITAL ART - stretching the image (usually a realism image) to varying lengths, the results often grouped into a series of the same image

REALISM Abstraction Example

DIGITAL ART - Abstraction Example

HDR (High Dynamic Range) - Appropriate images either selected for or taken using HDR techniques, showcased within a growing list of categories:-

• REALISM
• URBEX - decaying urban subjects

HDR Examples

NATURE - The list of categories will grow and be populated and include:-

• LANDSCAPE -
  
• SEASONS
• GEOLOGY
• SKY
  

LANDSCAPE Example

GEOLOGY Example

LIFE

The list of categories will grow and be populated and include:-

• FLORA
  
• CREATURES
• TRAVEL
• PEOPLE
  

EXAMPLE of LIFE - Plants

EXAMPE of LIFE - Insects

BUILT-MADE

The list of categories will grow and be populated and include:-

• ARCHITECTURE - buildings
  
• CITYSCAPES
• INDUSTRIAL
• INTERIORS
• ENGINEERING
• MANUFACTURE
• OBJECTS
  

ARCHITECTURE - Example

CITYSCAPE - Example

 BLACK & WHITE & slight colouration

The list of categories will grow and be populated and include:-

• GENERAL

BLACK & WHITE Example

B & W - With Colouration Example

MISCELLANEOUS-NEW IMAGES

The list of categories (generally current-new work) will grow and be populated, starting with:-

• GENERAL
• STAINED GLASS
• ST. CHADS CHURCH

Stained Glass Examples

Images Showcase-Abstract category