John
Knox House Virtual Tour
Being
a medieval building with turnpike stairs, John Knox House is not suitable for
physically disabled visitors so a virtual tour of the building was created for
display on the ground floor.
Ascending the floors on the building through specially created graphics and
with 360 degree photography of the interiors, the visitor can view all around
each room and then zoom in to artefacts and graphic panels, where they can learn
about each item in detail.
This has proved so popular with visitors that it has now been produced as a
CD Rom for sale in the shop, online and will be provided in the education packs.
Scottish
Storytelling Centre
Opened May 2006
Sheena
Irving was a member of the interpretive design team for this new visitor attraction,
built on the site of the Netherbow Theatre.
Along with interpretive panels and a ‘storytelling wall’ which reveals
model sets of some the most enduring Scottish stories, Sheena Irving conceived
and produced an ‘interactive’ art piece where the visitor selects
one of 8 Robert Louis Stevenson tales – depicted by their book covers
on an interactive lightbox – and sits in the ‘snug’ to listen
to part of the story dramatised by Jack Shedden and Finlay McLean.
The
Falkirk Wheel
One
of the most popular visitor attractions in the country initially approached
SIAV and AVC Electrosonic to develop and produce an interpretive scheme on board
the boat trips. It was impossible for the boat skippers to deliver all the required
information during the short time they had so each boat has been fitted with
8 roof mounted monitors which show 6 graphic and video modules, which can be
independently selected by the skippers at the appropriate point in the voyage.
5 foreign language translations and hard of hearing English versions of the
audio are delivered via audio tour handsets and the tour has been extended to
provide a site wide walking tour which is proving popular.
National
Library of Scotland/MKW Design
Audubon in Edinburgh
Ambient natural soundtrack of Audubon’s Birds
Cousland
Smiddy Trust
Programme for visitor attraction using archive film of
the smiddy blacksmith with descriptions of the work he is carrying out.
www.cousland.net/smiddy
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Stories Children’s Book Centre, Newcastle/ MKW Design
Audio and video displays for Westhall, Alan Alhberg and
Bear Hunt exhibitions
Fife
Coastal Trail, Dysart, Campbell & Co
3 audio tales from the former Dysart Harbourmasters
Crieff
Hydro, Campbell & Co.
Character voices for interactive children’s game.
Tyne
& Wear Museums
Selectable sound effects tracks for Roman Medicine Exhibition.
Vomiting etc etc!
East
Lothian Museums/John Muir House
4 selectable video compilations Belhaven Country Park
Exhibition.
Click
on the play button
to hear a sample of audio
Click
on the play button
to hear a sample of audio
Rainbow
City – City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Using
the oral history recordings of the project as a basis, this exhibition explored
stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Edinburgh and presented a
thought provoking and sometimes disturbing display.
Sound points exploring various themes, archive video and
the challenging ‘corridor of fear’ contributed to a popular temporary
exhibition.
Projects
completed in 2006
SSC
Website:
Highland
Livestock Heritage Centre, Dingwall
The
Drovers Project at Dingwall Mart is an exhibition celebrating the history of
droving throughout Scotland.
A collection of archive film footage from Scottish Screen Archive was researched
and presented as a selectable choice for the public to view.
National
Library of Scotland Tea & Tigers
Over
the past 400 years, many Scots have travelled to and lived in India. Tea and
Tigers was an exhibition examining this historical relationship through the
stories of some of those who made their mark there.
The exhibition contained a number of audio visual displays including Wings over
Everest, Scottish Screen Archive footage of the first flight over Everest, oral
histories from Indian residents of Scotland. A re-creation of a travelling educational
slide show from the early 1900's used the original glass slides in a video format
designed to replicate manual slide changing and the programme was projected
alongside a brass & mahogany projector giving the impression of a period
show.
Another soundtrack narrated the journals of a Mehmsahib in India.
Stanley
Mills
Sheena
Irving has recently recreated the clamour and noise of a working cotton mill
at Stanley Mills Visitor Centre in Perthshire. The Historic Scotland property
opened in May this year.
Having lain derelict since the 1970's, Stanley Mills has
now been give a new lease of life with hands-on interactive interpretation
and audio visual elements providing an insight into the way the mill operated
for over 200 years and into the lives of the mill workers.
Employed by Exhibition Designers Campbell and Co, SIAV designed and produced
soundtracks of the original 18th century waterwheel machinery and the high
levels of sound endured by the workers in the carding room.
Dialogues between 18th century mill workers in Gaelic
and English were also produced along with video programmes featuring interviews
with former employees of the mill.
National
Library of Scotland - Rankin
Queen
Elizabeth Forest Park, Lochard forest sound points
Current
projects 2008/09
Caithness Horizons, Thurso
National Library of Scotland - IMPRENTIT 500 years of printing
Burns House, Dumfries
Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, Gateway Visitor Centre team
Projects
in 2007
