Sound Delivery

We’ve worked on several multimedia projects as part of the Museum of London’s social inclusion programme, which helps young people, adults who are long-term unemployed and others at risk of social exclusion to engage with their heritage.

We’re committed to opening up media access to combat social exclusion in our communities. Our work with the Museum of London shows that digital training and support for under-represented groups can produce fantastic results – not just in terms of content, but also for the confidence of all those involved.

Project: training social media reporters

We spent a week training a diverse group of Londoners to be social reporters. Our hands-on training sessions gave each project member the skills and confidence needed to create a blog and conduct and record interviews. Armed with their new knowledge, they went on to interview people who were involved in the riots of April 1981. The audio features created will form part of an exhibition opening at the museum in 2010.

What does Brixton mean to me? Listen to the thoughts to what the group had to say:

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Project: Podcasts from the past

The Museum of London asked us to create a series of ‘podcasts from the past’, to help make the museum’s collections more accessible to visitors, especially those with visual impairments. The audio description podcasts take visitors on a journey through the museum’s London before London and Medieval galleries.

We worked with a small group of long-term unemployed adults, many of whom had not set foot in the museum before, to develop audio description scripts for the podcasts. We then ran a series of group workshops to train the participants in recording and interviewing, so that they could have a hands-on role in producing and editing their work.

The resulting podcasts are highly effective in bringing to life a range of Museum of London exhibits, from a medieval flint hand axe to a model of the Norman St Paul’s Cathedral. We also produced an audio evaluation of the project which was featured on the SocietyGuardian website.

Listen to this audio evaluation of this project which included the thoughts of some of the participants:

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What Museum of London says

“sounddelivery have worked with us on two projects, both with a diverse group of participants, some of whom came from difficult and challenging backgrounds. They were enthusiastic and able to meet the various needs and learning styles of the individuals. They achieved amazing results in incredibly tight timescales, not only in terms of some outstanding podcasts and audio interviews, but also passing on a new set of skills to newly inspired groups.” Lucie Fitton, Inclusion Officer, Community & Audience Development