Re: [MCN-L] Oral History Recording Booth in Exhibit

[hoplist]

It depends a great deal on what you wish to accomplish. Recording visitors is 
relatively easy. It’s the visitor experience design and the the back end that 
are tricky: how you guide the visitors and what you do with the recordings. In 
other words, how does this become meaningful for the visitor.

In my experience, institutions are motivated to create oral history recording 
booths because they see inherent value in collecting oral histories, but they 
have not considered the visitors. Why would they want to do this? What should 
they say? What is their reward? Do you really want a fun visitor exhibit, or 
something more formal and academically meaningful?

We’ve done this several times in a variety of ways. I’m happy to discuss ideas 
with you. My contact information is below.

We’ve done a ton of oral history work for OKCNMM, though not a visitor 
recording booth. If you run into Dustin Potter at OKCNMM, say “hi" for me, and 
pigeon-hole him. He’d be a good one to bounce around ideas. And feel free to 
call me. I’m always happy to chat.

Cheers,
  tod


Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
2233 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-342-0001

> On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:22 PM, Jason Bondy  wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> My apologies if this has been discussed here before, but I didn't find 
> anything when I searched the archive.
> 
> We are planning an exhibit and would like to set up an oral history recording 
> booth for visitors to record their stories on the topic.  I know this has 
> been done before, but not in our museum and I'm not sure of the best way to 
> go about it.  Would anyone here have experience with this and would like to 
> offer any tips or advice?
> 
> Feel free to contact me off list if needed.
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> 
> Jason Bondy
> Exhibits AV/IT | Oklahoma History Center
> 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
> www.okhistory.org
> (405) 522-0783
> 
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Re: [MCN-L] Oral History Recording Booth in Exhibit

[Brent Brookler]

Hi Jason

I think you were possibly referring to StoryCorps - https://storycorps.org
- I am not sure if they charge or how it works 100%, but could be a
solution.

If that isn't helpful, or looking for something else, I'd be happy to
discuss and brainstorm with you.

Thanks,
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Jason Bondy  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>
> My apologies if this has been discussed here before, but I didn't find
> anything when I searched the archive.
>
> We are planning an exhibit and would like to set up an oral history
> recording booth for visitors to record their stories on the topic.  I know
> this has been done before, but not in our museum and I'm not sure of the
> best way to go about it.  Would anyone here have experience with this and
> would like to offer any tips or advice?
>
> Feel free to contact me off list if needed.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
> Jason Bondy
> Exhibits AV/IT | Oklahoma History Center
> 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
> www.okhistory.org
> (405) 522-0783
>
>
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Re: [MCN-L] Oral History Recording Booth in Exhibit

[King, Ryan]

Sounds like an exciting project!

I know they have something similar at the new National Museum of 
African-American History and Culture here in DC. I believe Cortina Productions 
helped them design it. Try reaching out to Smithsonian staff @ NMAAHC for more 
details and feel free to email me if you need help establishing a connection 
over there.

Good luck and please share with the group once your recording booth goes live,
~r


-- 
Ryan King
Digital Experience Designer
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
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On 4/14/17, 2:22 PM, "mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Jason Bondy" 
 wrote:

Hello all,


My apologies if this has been discussed here before, but I didn't find 
anything when I searched the archive.

We are planning an exhibit and would like to set up an oral history 
recording booth for visitors to record their stories on the topic.  I know this 
has been done before, but not in our museum and I'm not sure of the best way to 
go about it.  Would anyone here have experience with this and would like to 
offer any tips or advice?

Feel free to contact me off list if needed.

Thank you in advance!


Jason Bondy
Exhibits AV/IT | Oklahoma History Center
800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
www.okhistory.org
(405) 522-0783



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