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Mike We have a YouTube channel, mainly with videos produced for us by students from Wiltshire College. The most recent set, which feature Phil Harding - one of our patrons - won the BUFVC Learning on Screen Award this year for best undergraduate film. http://www.youtube.com/user/WiltshireHeritage These were 'commissioned' - in the sense that we provided a budget which was used to buy additional technical guidance, travel and hire kit where needed. But this was nothing like the commercial cost, but we had to put in a lot of additional time ourselves in briefing, specification etc. The results though, are fantastic. The films are played on a screen on the ground floor - as the objects are on the first floor and we don’t have a lift yet. We have sold about 50 DVDs of the films, and have then embedded a number of the videos in different bits of our website. We have a few case labels with QR codes so people can also play the videos using their phones in the galleries (people are interested in the idea but not sure many people have actually done this). The first videos went up in August 2008, and we have had 9,000 views (3,300 for the one about Devizes and 1,600 for the next most popular) plus 1,174 channel views. David David Dawson Director, WANHS Wiltshire Heritage Museum 41 Long Street Devizes SN10 1NS Telephone: 01380 727369 Our White Horses and Hill Figures Exhibition is now on! The Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Library are owned and operated by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (WANHS). Funding comes primarily from private sources, but also through annual grants from Wiltshire Council, Devizes Town Council and parish councils, as well as other sources for specific projects. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or any other legal commitment on the part of the WANHS unless confirmed by a signed communication on official paper. For further information about the Society and Museum visit www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk. Founded 1853. Registered Charity No. 1080096. A Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England No. 3885649, 41 Long Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1NS -----Original Message----- From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Keane Sent: 16 December 2010 10:15 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Museums and online video Hi everyone, I'm researching the ways in which museums use video on the web, and why and when they would use it instead of written text and static pictures. I know some national museums, the V&A amongst them, now have their own dedicated online video channels. I’m hoping to hear from smaller regional museums who may be doing innovative work using online video, perhaps in an educational context, and if they have any means of referencing that video on the web other than as a category of the main museum website. I’m also very interested in if the ways in which museums use video is changing, with broadband speeds increasing and the cost of production falling. Are museums now more likely to create their own content in house or use external production companies? My final area of investigation is whether the increasing introduction of the H264 format is changing the workflow museums have for putting video on the web. Does anyone in the group notice a move away from Flash into HTML5? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to send your thoughts to me directly if you wish. I'll be glad to post my findings to the list. Many thanks, Mike **************************************************************** For mcg information visit the mcg website at http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ To manage your subscription to this email list visit http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ **************************************************************** **************************************************************** For mcg information visit the mcg website at http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ To manage your subscription to this email list visit http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ ****************************************************************