Tony Coll & Associates is promoting a new and, as far as we know, unique consultancy service to museums, cultural and leisure attractions. We love combining technology, stagecraft and other trickery, with a good script, set, costumes and live actors. And we love museums. So we thought we’d offer them the benefit of our experience.
The Bus That Went Back In Time
And let’s not forget the more conventional ideas:
Actors in costume with researched roles to play
Interactive videos & CD-Roms for interpretation
Portable electronic tour guides using audio & video
Display boards combining text and graphics
Booklets, leaflets, brochures, posters
We’re looking for partners to help make these ideas happen. There’s
enormous potential for combining GPS, speech recognition, projection, large
screen video and motion platform technologies with the creativity to tell
an exciting story.
Our museums track record to date is limited, but we’re itching to get
started – so we’re offering FREE CONSULTANCY to any museum,
heritage centre or leisure attraction keen to develop more exciting ways to
celebrate what it has to say and show. We will think of an exciting theme
or concept for you, write it up and cost it absolutely free.
John Lennon said the two most important words in English are YES and WOW. We agree. And we believe a good museum or leisure attraction should have you screaming both of them.
The Bus That
Went Back In Time
Imagine staring out of the window of a moving bus when suddenly the modern
world dissolves and you’re looking at the scene as it was 100, 300, even
1,000 years ago. Astonished, you look across the aisle or out the back - and
those windows too are showing realistically matched versions of the same historic
trip. We can make this happen. We have a proposal to do it in Bristol for
the 2006 anniversary of the city’s great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Potential sponsors please get in touch!
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The Nautical Roll
The technology of Motion Simulators doesn’t have to be all bash and crash.
We plan to build a life-size model ship – for example, Admiral Nelson’s
flagship Victory – and place it on a huge, gently rolling motion platform,
so that the public get the full effect of being at sea. If we’re on the
coast, the real horizon will do fine. If we’re inland, we can create
an ‘at sea’ horizon using giant video screens and high-quality film
of the sea. We can even add a naval battle, using live actors and real pyrotechnics
combined with size-matched video versions.
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We Know Where You Are!
We’ve all seen animatronic displays triggered by motion sensors or timing
devices. But imagine how spooky it would be to walk in a park, and have a
‘ghost’ appear and start talking to you. It would look straight
at you, and move with you round the park, as if it knew where you were. We
can do this. We can also make the ghost have a convincing conversation, turning
him or her into a novel guide, Mentor or a historical person telling you about
their era.
