Museum of London

The sounddelivery team will be channelling their inner Russell Crowe at the end of July as we prepare to enter the arena for the Museum of London’s Gladiator Games.

We’ve been commissioned to support the Museum’s youth volunteers to make a short video and reportage project for the event which is taking place at London’s Guildhall Yard.  Live Gladiators will be fighting to the death in front of the baying crowd (we’re assured no one will actually be hurt, and the “trained killers” are actually re-enactors!)

In the days running up to the Gladiator Games we will be teaching the young people the skills needed to capture the atmosphere and excitement of the event, as well as how to document the day through social media.  They’ll be creating storyboards, planning the production and allocating teams and resources across the Guildhall site.  On the day we’ll be guiding them to capture multimedia content using Flip cameras, Edirol audio kits and a bigger broadcast quality camera crew.

We had a recent meeting at the Museum with the wannabe Romans, who are part of the Britannia re-enactment society, who explained their commitment to historical fact and what inspires them to fight.  They also invited two of the Junction Panel members to enrol as corpse-bearers for the day to carry the defeated gladiators away.  They’ll be perfect embedded reporters!  You can find out how preparations are going for the Games at the Museum of London’s blog.

The Junction Youth Panel – made up of 16-21 year olds – has been meeting regularly and running events for the past year.  Part of the Museum of London’s contribution to Stories of the World: London (part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad project they have been exploring how London became the world city it is today by looking at the legacy of the Romans. All the work they have contributed to will feature in a display at the Museum of London next year.

sounddelivery has won an Award!

We are now the proud winners of a Jodi Award for our project Podcasts from the Past : a joint project with the Museum of London, sounddelivery and VocalEyes.

Our project, which won the Digital Access Online Award, involved a group of unemployed Londoners creating audio description podcasts for blind and partially sighted people for the Museum of London. Over the course of eight weeks the group developed their writing skills and learnt about audio techniques and recording.

The participants, who were from a rich variety of backgrounds and life stories, came together to work as a team to gain new skills, confidence and experience which they could use in the future. These workshops created great material for the museum and were a fantastic way of reaching a new audience while inspiring and motivating people.

Martha Lane Fox, the government’s Champion for Digital Inclusion, presented the award to Jude Habib on behalf of the team at sounddelivery alongside Lucie Fitton, the Inclusion Officer at the Museum of London and Tobey Davey from VocalEyes.

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.”

Listen to our audio evaluation of the project:

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

About the Jodi Awards

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.

We are currently working on an exciting project for National Portrait Gallery and expanding our work in community engagement so please do get in contact if you want to talk about projects you’ve got in development.

jude@sounddelivery.org.uk

020 8888 2951

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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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You can find further details about the up-coming courses via the MLA London website, or by downloading this pdf training programme:

http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/WFD200910MLAL.pdf

The workshops are taking place on the following dates:

November 4^th Social Media Know How

November 19^th Digital Storytelling

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To book a place on these courses please complete the booking form and return to by email to bookings@mlalondon.org.uk or by post to: Bookings, MLA London, Fourth Floor, 53-56 Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DG