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Interview with Sarah Boden - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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BS: What types of things were you thinking about?

SB: When we're doing our - large screen shows, and I don't know if you have seen any of these shows, it's a bit hard to explain. You know like the tiny Christmas tree? Did you see that? [Where we actually]=

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SB: We back project a picture - and then we get someone to act as the shadows behind. This is something that I find really interesting because the children are there they're watching really, it's like on a big telly but you've got a real person behind the screen and they can do - mime all sorts of things. [Production - modes] So you can be anywhere, you can be explaining how - a tree grows from a tiny seed so you can actually have lovely cartoons of a tiny seed and see it growing. Or you can have a person digging up the tree. You know, you can - there's so much potential I - I don't, I'm not a drama person, I don't know much about it but I think that that's a very useful tool - for putting across ideas, to children. So that excites me and I think - with the - with things better than PowerPoint I have heard, I've often said "Why can't we do this?" I can't remember an example it might be to do with having music and - and words appearing on the screen - and pictures at the - you know all at the same time when it gets quite complex I think we're limited with PowerPoint and um. Under the Sea is another example that we did recently and I said "Oh I wish we could do that effect" and someone said "No. You can't do it with PowerPoint but you might be able to do it when we get the new whatever it is programs running." So, I think that's always going to be the case. We'll find some new thing and we'll say "yeah we've got to try this to see if it improves." Because every time we do a show it changes slightly every time we get it back out again. We all look and see what we wrote last time - about it and we think "Oh let's let's try this this time let's improve on that" so um. It's always evolving. Every year it evolves a bit. So that's quite nice.