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MuBu eNewsletter Quarter 3 Project Updates Derby on Film - Buxton Museum and Art Gallery 60 betamax tapes have been converted into a digital format. These have been viewed and some ones have been selected and duplicated where there were no copyright issues and the quality was good. Two one- minute trailers have been put on YouTube and we are following that with five short film clips. We hope that people will watch and give feedback on the footage. Our social networking is updated weekly and slowly gaining momentum. We now have content on all our sites. We are currently preparing DVDs to be sent out to libraries and museums around Derbyshire. Click here to see the films: www.mubu.org.uk/whatisthis/2010/12/16/film-clips-and-trailers D.H. Lawrence Blue Line Trail - D.H. Lawrence Heritage As part of the MUBU project, students from Eastwood Comprehensive School had a fantastic day taking part in an intensive workshop inspired by the D.H. Lawrence Blue Line Trail. Working with creative consultants from the Strata Collective the students produced poems, storyboards and mini dramas inspired by the Blue Line Trail, which will be used to augment the Empedia app. The day was such a success that school staff have plans to develop the poetry and the storyboards further with in-school media support. Jane and Jackie from the Strata Collective commented: “We both felt what a pleasure it had been to work with such an engaged and inspiring group of young people and two fantastic members of staff.” www.empedia.info/maps/18 History Remixed - Newark and Sherwood Museum Service Based around the theme Newark played during the English Civil War, our project’s aim was to work with young people to interpret collections and Historic sites around the town in an imaginative and innovative way. Working with creative writer Dave Wood, (Writing East Midlands) this is certainly proving to be the case! The project involves young people from several schools and the Young Archaeologists Club, taking part in activities such as creating Haiku poetry, developing marching songs for the Parliamentarians and Royalists with musician Victor Scott, creating a Civil War themed ‘Soap Opera’ script and a new board game based around a contemporary map of fortifications held within the Museum Service collections. Activities have been filmed, photographed and recorded via a number of digital media methods and work is progressing to make this available via the MuBu website, YouTube, the Museum Service Collections and Learning Facebook pages. There are plans to host a celebration event to showcase work and involve members of The English Civil War Society and Young Archaeologists. www.mubu.org.uk/historyremixed/2010/12 Pests, Polish and Pony Hair - Sudbury Hall The Pests, Polish and Pony hair project at Sudbury Hall and the Museum of Childhood has been progressing well with even more to come over the winter months. This summer we focused on the museum side of the property and temporary exhibition space. After an excellent training session on the basics of film making for volunteers and staff and the purchasing of flip cams, we have been able to incorporate film making skills and new presence on Facebook and Twitter to shape our Christmas exhibition, ‘Dear Santa...All I want for Christmas.’ We have been working with a local primary school, featuring in a film shown in the gallery talking about their own Christmas wishes. A student volunteer has been busy blogging about the collections project she is carrying out in our attics - including dealing with a mould problem! - and in January a local youth group will join us to help put the ‘house to bed’ and filming each other in the process! Pictured is James Reader from Front Row Films working with kids at Peartree Infant School, filming them talking about their Christmas wishes. www.mubu.org.uk/pestspolishandponyhair/2010/11/26/attic-6-project Trail Quest - Derbyshire Museums Forum Trail Quest, the Derbyshire Museum Forum’s MuBu project, is progressing well. Katapult have been appointed to deliver the project which in its initial phase is a pilot with 6 Derbyshire sites: Bakewell Old House Museum, Creswell Crags, Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway, Hardwick Hall, Sudbury Hall and Sharpe’s Pottery. Based around the themes of homes and how we used to live, each site has developed a series of on-line activities for a family audience. This includes developing an on-line scrapbook and activities to do during a visit. A logo has been developed for the project and Katapult are now developing a series of screen themes and website designs for approval. Once the pilot project has been completed, it will be possible for other Forum members to develop pages too. The website will go live in early 2011. Other Project Updates/Links: An Oral History Audio Trail for Leicester – East Midlands Oral History Archive: The trail is almost complete, after testing by a few people and final adjustments made to the commentary in light of their feedback. The trail will then be available via the Empedia app. Slideshows with photographs will also available on You Tube. Listen to the trail and see the map here: www.le.ac.uk/emoha/community/audiotrail.html Ashby 2010 Film for the Future – Ashby de la Zouch Museum: Filming the Christmas street activities has got us in the festive mood! Plans for showcasing our project include a “Premiere” evening at The Venture Theatre on March 2nd for an invited audience. The following Saturday we plan to run the whole set of films at the Museum so that anyone can come in and out at any time to see that parts they are interested in. www.ashbydelazouchmuseum.org.uk/Ashby_2010.html Boots, Shoes and Suffragettes – Newarke Houses Museum: The project is going extremely well. The film on the life of Alice Hawkins called “Boots, Shoes and Suffragettes” is completed. It was Filmed around the county with help from a great group of volunteers. Our second film about Pat Keeling called “A Life In Modelling” has been filmed and is being edited. Our final film, a montage of all the old Leicester Hosiery and shoe factories is ready for editing. We are currently planning our final event at the Newarke Houses Museum. www.mubu.org.uk/alicehawkins/2010/12 Communities and Collections Connecting – Nottingham Castle: Staff at NCMG have been working with a community film maker and local Nottingham people to film oral histories about working in Nottingham’s local industries. It has become apparent that there are many wonderful memories to be told inspired by the museum collections from industries like Raleigh and Boots. www.mubu.org.uk/communitiesandcollections/2010/10 Cypher (Corby Young Peoples Heritage): Corby Borough Council’s project which started as ‘Corby Mini Museum’, now called Cypher, a name chosen by the young people making the website. It launched at the beginning of December and has images from the Council’s collections alongside the young people’s photographs and thoughts about what heritage and culture means to them. www.cypher-online.org.uk Digi-Dinos – Leicester Arts & Museums Service: Working with Glass Page, a Leicester based film company, we are developing 8 video podcasts that introduce our star objects and their hidden stories from the Dinosaur and Geology galleries at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery. We are also working with a writer and an illustrator producing Story Sack resources to be used with Early Years, KS1 and family visitors to the new gallery. A story sack is based around a children’s book with supporting materials designed to stimulate reading activities. www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/projects/residencies/digi_dinos Digital Canal – Foxton Canal Museum: The DigitalCanal project is going from strength to strength. Every structure along the canal has been noted from Norton Junction near Daventry through to West Bridge in Leicester. We are also adding info about access, not part of the original project but hopefully it will be useful. The cameras provided to schools and scout groups have created pictures for the project. We have also taken up twitter and blogging, with followers from a wider range of people than we thought possible, including British waterways sections and national magazines. www.fipt.org.uk/digitalcanal/index.php?src=frontpage.php ‘Factory Voices’ – Mansfield Museum: The project has been extremely rewarding to all those involved and will serve as a lasting legacy to the former ‘Metal Box’ factory site. The project began with a hugely successful Memory Day that collected many fascinating stories that have know been turned by Sound Delivery into an audio slide show and a selection of podcasts. www.sounddelivery.org.uk/mansfield-museum-factory-voices Leave Only Footsteps… - Enlightenment Partnership: Leave Only Footsteps continues to engage new audiences with the museum’s collection of 17th & 18th century prints, the writings of Erasmus Darwin and more recent postcards showing local scenes. Artists Gordon Maclellan, Sarah Males and Debbie Cooper have been working with school pupils at Taddington Primary School and people at the Farming Life Centre, in addition to holding public events in Monsal Dale and Dove Dale. We have invited people to locate the scenes portrayed, described in the archive material, and re-imagine these using creative writing, photography and digital animation techniques. www.mubu.org.uk/nothingbutfootsteps Lights! Camera! Action! - Lincolnshire Heritage Forum: The Lincs Filmmaker project has got off to a great start with close to 50 young people signing up to create short films for nine museums across Lincolnshire. The young people are working with Sara Mair and Meena Jeewa of Mair Education to develop a young people’s cinematic guide to Lincolnshire’s museums for YouTube.