Soft Opening Feedback

Soft Opening went really well. We received a lot of positive feedback, and in general faculty seemed pleased with our progress.

The three concerns faculty had were:

Concern One: Hermes (the name of our owl).

Solution: We chose the name Hermes because he means winged messenger in Greek. Some of the faculty were concerned because the name Hermes is also associated with being a trickster. After much discussion within the group and with concerned faculty, as well as after doing a lot of entomology research, we decided the name was o.k. to keep.

Concern Two: Our animations need to be smoother.

Solution: During the two weeks between soft opening and final presentations, we worked closely with our resident faculty flash guru John Dessler, and reworked a lot our animations and artwork. Since reworking the animations, we have received positive feedback about the changes.

Concern Three: Show seems too long.

Solution: Faculty thought our show was too long, so we cut out a lot of “waiting”, rewrote parts of script to be more concise, and during our play-testing, we found that we left the kids wanting more (a good thing!)