sounddelivery wins Youth Engagement Award

Eric — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:43:35 +0000

We’re delighted to announce that a project developed and delivered by sounddelivery for Crich Tramway Village has won the “Working with Children and Young People” award at the Derbyshire Heritage Awards.

The “Hear All About It!” audio trail project, which was funded by the Renaissance East Midlands ‘MuBu‘ scheme, involved young people creating an audio trail to guide visitors through the museum’s restored period village streets. A key part of the project was to give young people the skills and creative ability to produce the audio trail themselves. The production process included a series of intensive workshops in scriptwriting, storytelling, audio production and drama skills, which were run by Mark and Linda Kempton, the creative writer who was also involved in the project.

The young people then created a series of short audio-dramas based around different features including a stench pipe, tram shelter and a police phone box. The audio guides were made available to download from the museum’s website and are accompanied by an interactive map pinpointing their locations.

The judges were impressed by the engagement of the young people and the potential new visitors that the project would encourage, saying;

“It was an admirable project that engaged a notoriously difficult group (teenagers) and that they demonstrated genuine enthusiasm for the project. Hear all About It took a creative approach to developing interpretation of street furniture on site which will encourage people to visit.”

Listen to one of the dramas created for the trail, this one focusing on an on-street urinal.

Urinal by Crich Tramway Village

You can download the PDF Press Release announcing the award here.

This is our second heritage award, after our Podcasts From the Past project with the Museum of London won the Digital Access Online Jodie Award.

Award winning sounddelivery!

Mark — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:16:41 +0000

sounddelivery has been honoured at this year’s Jodi Awards for a Museum of London project. Over a period of 8 weeks a group of unemployed Londoners took part in a project creating audio description podcasts for blind and partially sighted museum visitors. The group developed their writing skills and learnt about audio techniques and recording. The finished audio pieces – called Podcasts from the Past – are now available on the Museum of London’s website. Jude accepted the Digital Access Online Award from Martha Lane Fox, the government’s Champion for Digital Inclusion, at the ceremony at the V&A Museum alongside Lucie Fitton, the inclusion officer at the Museum of London. The awards are named in memory of Jodi Mattes (1973-2001), who worked at the British Museum and RNIB, a tireless champion of equal access to culture for disabled people.

The Jodie Award Judges said:

“Podcasts from the Past creates bridges between people and communities. It demonstrates the power of podcasts for a shared experience of collections between disabled and non-disabled people. The experiment of the Museum of London is a timely inspiration for museums, galleries and heritage sites”

This is what the project participants had to say about the project:

You can find out more about our work with the Museum of London here.

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sounddelivery wins Youth Engagement Award

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