BS: How would you say that the relationship between the video and the presenter works in the planetarium?
ER: I think, I think it works quite well. The - it gives the presenter - something specific to talk about. It also means that the audience aren't listening to one person's voice for 35-40 minutes. That there's there's two different types. When we run evaluation for the public, it's quite interesting because, you'll say in the, that questionnaire at the end "which part did you enjoy best?" And it's usually about 50-50. Half of them will prefer the first half and half of them will, which is the recorded narration, and half of them will prefer the presenter talking. So if you - only had one of those - then half of the audience are going to be - disappointed. That's probably the wrong word because they wouldn't know what to expect. But then, the presenter, can work on the enthusiasm, that they have for the subject or, things that, were mentioned in the first half. So you'll be able to say things like - "well when it was talking about Mars being very, um being made of of iron oxide which is rust, that's the reason that you can see it red in the sky. And if you look up here this is where you'll find Mars and you can see that it's red." And you'll - you can - talk about things that weren't mentioned in the first half. It's much easier than introducing it new and cold yourself.
I think - if it was, just the presenter it would be more difficult for the presenter as well, to be able to talk about, the subject that the show was about. So for example if we have, Mars or at the moment it's City Stargazing. So city stargazing is talking about what you can see from, a city. So, with light pollution the number of stars that you can see is much fewer. But that helps you spot the constellations. So then, you can talk about well with the light pollution leave some of the light pollution up - this is what you can see. But if you go out into the countryside, and then you can turn the lights right down, this is what you can see and it's, it's completely well it's not completely different but it's it's a different - amount of stars, that you can see. It feels much different to the audience. And I think it would be more difficult to just talk about that without having the first half in there as well. ((pause))
So I, I hope and I say I hope because I, I write the shows and so I can never say 100% that um because if they then - whenever I run presenter evaluation they also seem to say that they enjoy it but - so I hope they do.