Hi! I'm Elissa, a producer at Walking Cinema, a San-Francisco based production company. We're currently developing a digital storytelling and augmented reality course for museum professionals and documentarians, focused on historic sites.
TLDR: Fill out this 5-minute survey by March 15th if you're interested in the course, to tell us who you are and what kind of project you're interested in developing!
https://forms.gle/1oKX9FFF47QzEQFK7
MORE INFO:
Walking Cinema has been partnering with museums and historic sites over the past 15 years developing a unique brand of digital storytelling that uses audience surroundings, podcasting, and augmented reality to bring history to life. Our projects have won several Gold Muse Awards, and now, we're looking to democratize our production process so museums can create such mobile-guided experiences in house, themselves.
Do your students, visitors, or community members want to explore local history in a new and engaging way? Do you want to develop immersive media that extends your exhibits to the surrounding neighborhood? This course titled "History Around Us" is built on Walking Cinema's award-winning process of creating immersive audio and augmented reality walks for museum, civic, and nonprofit organizations. The course will be starting in the Spring of 2023 we're accepting applications now, hoping to fill the course with about a dozen attendees from museums and cultural institutions.
OVERVIEW: The production team at Walking Cinema, in partnership with Adobe, is putting together a month long course "History Around Us" that will bring together 10 hand-picked partners from diverse museum and cultural organizations together to learn how to develop smartphone-based audio and augmented reality stories. This immersive approach to cultural exploration is becoming a popular way to involve diverse communities and use cutting edge technology to tell site-specific stories. Do you work in migrant communities? Environmental science? Urban design? No technical expertise, but have already researched and maybe developed a story that is site-specific? This course is for you.
In addition to gathering skills in place-based story development, course participants will work with like-minded colleagues from around the world to develop compelling stories with unique neighborhoods, historic sites, and communities at their center.
WHAT WILL I LEARN? No technical expertise is needed for this course, but we strongly prefer attendees who have already developed a site-specific story via an exhibit, website, video, or audio. The course will allow you to extend those stories and teach you skills in audio storytelling, augmented reality design, audience research and testing, community-based exhibit design, and mobile content distribution.
OUTCOMES: Students will develop a prototype for their tour experience that includes immersive audio, augmented reality and a user interface for an audience-facing app.
WHO IS INVITED? Exhibit designers, educational staff, and content developers of all sorts affiliated with a museum or cultural center of all sizes and locales. No skills required, but you should have a target community for your coursework.
TIMEFRAME: We will be running the course in the Spring 2023 for an initial cohort of approximately 10 students. Fees will be along a sliding scale. The course will meet weekly for four weeks, with 90 minutes of Zoom class per week, and assigned learning and producing. Participants will be expected to dedicate an average of 5 hours per week to the course.
APPLICATION PROCESS: First, please fill out this 5-minute survey: https://forms.gle/1oKX9FFF47QzEQFK7 by March 15th to tell us who you are and what kind of project you're interested in developing.
We look forward to hearing from you! Feel free to email me at elissa@walkingcinema.org with any questions you have. We are looking to have selected participants by late-March for a course starting in early May.
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Elissa Mardiney
Producer
San Francisco CA
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