Digital Experience Design
Can’t Look Away: Bram Stoker’s Dracula Manuscript, Music of Horror, and Scream Booth Experience
Client:
MoPOP
Venue/Location:
Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA
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exhibits and interactives
Hallway leading to the exhibit.
The stoker manuscript installation.
Stoker manuscript attract mode.
Stoker manuscript interactive.
Key pages and passages from the original Stoker manuscript are shown and link to video content relating to the passage.
After choosing a category, users can view related video clips.
Music of horror interactive. Users can choose movie clips and see how different music devices are used in popular horror films.
Music of horror installation.
Music of horror interactive screen.
Clips can be played by pressing on the images.
Scream booth attract mode.
Screaming in the scream booth.
People can choose their best scream face.
Once a scream is captured, they are shown in the screens outside of the booth.
Client:
MoPOP
Browse:
exhibits and interactives
In collaboration with MoPOP and exhibition designer Ken Burns (Curious Beast, Belle & Wissell designed and developed a series of interactives for the exhibition with a wide range of focus.
The first offers a unique look at Bram Stoker’s original Dracula manuscript. Users can manipulate pages from the manuscript and through highlighted passages in the text; explore recurring themes in the horror genre through videos of related films, old and new.
The next interactive experience focused on music and sound design, and teaches users not only how these sounds are made, but shows examples of their usage from many great films from the genre.
The final interactive experience invites users to put themselves in character; they are scanned and assigned the role of either the Villain or Victim.
They’re guided through a narrated “preparation” and then at the top of their lungs, they scream! Their photo is captured and then displayed in the gallery and shared to MoPOP’s flickr feed.
Project Accolades:
Seattle Times “EMP Horror show adds wink, nudge to blood, gore,” 2011
King 5 News “New horror film exhibit at EMP is a scream,” 2011
Belle & Wissell Team Credits
Design Director: Gabe Kean
Art Director: Thomas Ryun
Designer: Edrea Lita
Producer: Marq Dean
Project Manager: Sarah Faulkner
Technology Lead: Marcel Ray
Programmer: Craig Babcock
Programmer: Jed Bursiek
Quality Assurance: Siarhei Bokach
Additional Project Credits
Curator: Jacob McMurray
Assistant, Curatorial: Erin Wheeler
Exhibition Design: Curious Beast
Exhibition Graphics: Benjamin K. Shown
Interactive Producer: Aleen Adams
Project Manager: Bridget Jennings
Exhibit Services: Addy Froehlich
Museum Technology: Brian Phraner
Video Production: David Wulzen
Video Production: Nik Perleros
Belle & Wissell Team Credits
Design Director: Gabe Kean
Art Director: Thomas Ryun
Designer: Edrea Lita
Producer: Marq Dean
Project Manager: Sarah Faulkner
Technology Lead: Marcel Ray
Programmer: Craig Babcock
Programmer: Jed Bursiek
Quality Assurance: Siarhei Bokach
Additional Project Credits
Curator: Jacob McMurray
Assistant, Curatorial: Erin Wheeler
Exhibition Design: Curious Beast
Exhibition Graphics: Benjamin K. Shown
Interactive Producer: Aleen Adams
Project Manager: Bridget Jennings
Exhibit Services: Addy Froehlich
Museum Technology: Brian Phraner
Video Production: David Wulzen
Video Production: Nik Perleros
In collaboration with MoPOP and exhibition designer Ken Burns (Curious Beast, Belle & Wissell designed and developed a series of interactives for the exhibition with a wide range of focus.
The first offers a unique look at Bram Stoker’s original Dracula manuscript. Users can manipulate pages from the manuscript and through highlighted passages in the text; explore recurring themes in the horror genre through videos of related films, old and new.
The next interactive experience focused on music and sound design, and teaches users not only how these sounds are made, but shows examples of their usage from many great films from the genre.
The final interactive experience invites users to put themselves in character; they are scanned and assigned the role of either the Villain or Victim.
They’re guided through a narrated “preparation” and then at the top of their lungs, they scream! Their photo is captured and then displayed in the gallery and shared to MoPOP’s flickr feed.
Project Accolades:
Seattle Times “EMP Horror show adds wink, nudge to blood, gore,” 2011
King 5 News “New horror film exhibit at EMP is a scream,” 2011