Ugly Studios Ltd | Island of Secrets

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Brief

National Trust Orford Ness is an abandoned, top-secret, RAF testing station on the Suffolk Coast. Alongside designing a physical exhibition, Ugly Studios were tasked to integrate archive video and audio in the displays in a way that would be easy to protect in a building at risk of flooding.

Idea

We installed a local Wi-Fi running on an InfoPoint into the exhibition space to serve edited videos and audio clips to accompany the exhibition. Visitors could browse content their own phones, or on a tablet. A touch-screen that could easily be removed was used for to show the wildlife footage that had been shot by the rangers using remote control cameras in the marshes.

Result

The archive material provides great additional content to the physical displays. The exhibition was designed around first-person testimony, so having the voices of people who lived and worked on Orford Ness adds a real immediacy to the experience.

What we did

Research
Digitization
Audio and video restoration
Video editing
Audio editing
Interface design
Interface production

The interactive elements will appeal to a wide audience and provide a refreshing addition to the existing displays. We look forward to working with Ugly on continuing improvements to the interpretation of the Ness
David Mason, Lead Ranger, Orford Ness National Nature Reserve

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Heritage and Culture, Education and Leisure

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Island of Secrets – AV

Design and Interpretation for Heritage and Culture, Education and Leisure

Brief

Idea

Result

What we did

Island of Secrets – AV

Design and Interpretation for
Heritage and Culture, Education and Leisure