Culture Volunteers - Filming at Stourbridge Glass Museum
If you’ve been following the blog posts you will know that part of the Culture Volunteer WM project is to see how arts and cultural organisations, and the volunteering opportunities they offer , can be made accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Today, we were joined by deaf volunteers who offered to create some short BSL videos for the museums website.
First thing was a quick run through of the script to make sure our volunteers were comfortable with the interpreting the text.
Once that had been done, we went outside and got ready to film.
Then it was time for Peter, the first of our volunteer video stars to get in position ready for filming. Maral and Sinita take a critical directors look at the shot to make sure they are happy before pressing ‘record’
Then it was all systems go, and with the thumbs up from Peter, filming got underway …
Once the outside shots were complete it was time to head indoors and continue filming there …
Peter did a great job and then it was time for Sinita to come from behind the camera and be recorded doing the BSL interpretation for the museums’ access information.
After a good day of filming all the raw material was there. Now our volunteers, Maral and the team at Deaf Explorer will edit the footage and make the final films for inclusion on the museums website. It’s another step in making the museum accessible to D/deaf communities - whether as visitors or as future volunteers.
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The Culture Volunteer WM project was funded by Arts Council England and the DCMS. The project took place in the Black Country, Stoke and Birmingham. Culture Central led the project, with CBC responsible for delivery in the Black Country region
During the Culture Volunteer WM project, we were lucky to be able to work with the team at Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre. There hadn’t been any volunteers at the theatre for roughly ten years, so it was big step to take for them to get them back on board. 71 people came to the recruitment days and there’s now a lovely team of 30 volunteers. The following film tells a little of that story …