One small step...

Hi everyone and welcome to our blog! We are Lexi and Katrina and we're two undergraduate students from the University of York currently reading Heritage Studies at the Department of Archaeology. We are about to set out on our very first journey into the diverse and exciting world of heritage... one small step for us!

We've created this blog to take you along on our exciting new journey as our first small steps get bigger and bigger... We've immersed ourselves in our summer term heritage field school project, where we've been asked to create a three minute film about the Mesolithic site of Star Carr. This will be installed in the Yorkshire Museum. This means it's going to be viewed by loads and loads of happy museum go-ers, so the pressures on us!

A small collection of our ideas!

Currently we're one week in we've got big ideas, now we just have to realise them. After a brainstorming session our biggest and brightest idea appears to be making a video on what Star Carr means to the people working on the site; the students, professionals, volunteers... anyone who knows and loves the site. Our plan is to appeal to the emotional side of working on Star Carr, to get them to express what the site means to them. We aim to prove to the public that Star Carr is special and it is worth caring about; that the archaeologists that are working on the site don't just dig in mud (or peat bog in the case of Star Carr!) to find information, they really do care!

So how do we get the archaeologists to emerge from their professional shells and express all that gets them hot-under-the-collar about Star Carr? This might be quite a challenge and pointing a camera at them may not help this much! Our plan then is to give them a pen and paper. Through asking them questions such as 'Draw one thing that comes to mind when you think of Star Carr' or 'Draw what Star Carr means to you' - we want to find out what makes Star Carr special to each of the people who work there. Rather than going for the talking head approach we intend to make the interviewee more comfortable by having them discuss their views of Star Carr as a voiceover whilst showing shots of them doing the sketches, digging, having fun, laughing...! Anything to show how special Star Carr is!

These are our initial ideas... it's going to be a long and eye-opening journey over the next few weeks but we're ready! Feel free to comment on our idea, we welcome any feedback. Thanks for reading and until next time...!