Digital Audio & Video
The Traverse Theatre’s Digital Content Developments
The Traverse Theatre wanted to develop the digital offering available to our online audience. We sought to streamline our digital platforms and incorporate regular high quality rich media content on a year-round basis, thereby increasing the online reputation of the Traverse Theatre and the quality of content for our digital audience. In early 2014, following an internal…
Music Plus Project Cuts Carbon
Music Plus piloted an innovative project to look at ways of cutting carbon emissions through online distance learning.
Applied Arts Scotland: Sustainable AmbITions
Applied Arts Scotland (AAS) is a membership organisation which supports the professional development of Scottish applied artists. AAS is going through fundamental change in the way it delivers its services and received Make:IT:Happen funds to take the opportunity to rethink communication and administration systems in order to be efficient and environmentally responsible. Please read more below on our Sustainable…
Local Voices focus on digital for organisational development
Local Voices is a Community Interest Company formed in 2013 seeking to connect communities with their local traditions, primarily through songs and the use of archive resources. The company’s two co-directors are experienced folklorists, as well as singers and performers that have carried out workshops with schoolchildren in the Dundee and Angus areas with around 900…
Paragon Music report on their digital developments
Paragon Music in Scotland is using rich media to bolster the new website www.paragon-music.org and social media including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Vimeo in order to drive participation and audience engagement.
All that Jazz: the SNJO digitally alive again!
SNJO: In the Hall of the Mountain King The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and their Artistic Director, the saxophonist Tommy Smith are widely recognized to be “world class” with an international reputation for the highest quality jazz and programming. In 2013, while performances soared with rapturous receptions to their Ellington and Rhapsody in Blue concerts…
Cinema City: history brought to life with digital development
Glasgow Film, comprising Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, is the west of Scotland’s leading independent cultural cinema.Glasgow Film’s Cinema City project connects visitors and residents to the fascinating cinema heritage of the city. Back in the cinema-going heyday of the 1930s, Glasgow had more cinemas per head than anywhere else in the world,…
Science on screen
The Edinburgh International Science Festival received money from Ambition Scotland’s Digital Content Development Fund to help us expand our content capture and establish an effective distribution strategy. As an annual Festival, we face challenges around how best to showcase our work, keep people engaged year round and deliver wider benefits for our sponsors and stakeholders.…
Scottish Music Centre – Case Study in Archive Digitisation (Watch!)
Scottish Music Centre: Digitisation Project from Scottish Music Centre Education on Vimeo. The Scottish Music Centre has an extensive collection of over 38,000 items as part of its remit to document and promote the musical life of the country, past and present. We have been acquiring material for over forty years: sheet music, sound recordings,…
Radio Free Hebrides – supporting local culture through podcasting…
Radio Free Hebrides is a project by Hands On Studios, a small company supporting the audio arts, based on the Isle of Skye. In 2013/2014 we received an award from Amb:IT:ion Scotland to help to create a strong foundation of digital content, and help to grow our audience so that we could move forward, finding…
Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre – Digital Content Development
Toonspeak wanted some high quality digital content to make the most of our new website. A grant from AmbITion Scotland allowed us to work with film-makers and experiment with new forms of digital content. The new material proved very popular with our young people and resulted in a 54% increase in page views. We were…
How To Get Going With Video Creation
This AmbITion Scotland How To… Guide explains the basics of choosing digital video kit to suit your content creation needs and budget options.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Digital Strategy
Pitlochry Festival Theatre people discuss their digital strategy and how it is developing and embedding across the organisation, following their undertaking of the AmbITion Approach, supported by AmbITion Scotland‘s Make:IT:Happen Fund. Watch and enjoy!
Augmented Reality Brochures: Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre video showcase
One of the limitations around a paper marketing brochure is that that it can’t show or tell you how attending an event will feel. A more multisensory experience can though, and the Manipulate Festival of Visual Theatre, which shows innovative international theatre and film, have used an augmented reality (AR) platform called Layar to bring…
macrobert – case study in digital development
macrobert arts centre for Stirling and the Forth Valley has been supported by AmbITion Scotland to undertake the AmbITion Approach to digital development. Here in this video, they reflect on the work they did and the digital plans they’ve developed to ensure their ongoing resilience as a cultural hub for the area! macrobert also have…
Plantation Productions – Get AmbITion
With an award form the Make IT Happen fund Plantation Productions worked with Post Creative to produced a new website to profile the films and work that they do in the Greater Govan Community in Glasgow.
Case study in digital development: YDance
YDance worked with AmbITion Scotland Make:IT:Happen funds to develop a Digital Hub – an online tool that helps them achieve their aim of engaging young people with their own individual potential through dance. Enjoy watching!
How To… Upload Video (a video guide to watch!)
This How To… Guide focusses on how to format and export video in the correct way so that it uploads in optimum quality to YouTube, Vimeo, Blip, or your ownself-hosted solution. Watch part one, then choose whether you watch part two (YouTube), three (Vimeo), four (Blip), or five (self-hosting) depending on which video hosting platform…
Stellar Quines film ANA in 3D – Case Study in Digital Development
Digital Development Case Study: Stellar Quines film ANA in 3D
Watch: Glo/cal – Roadshow Shetland on demand!
The amazing new arts, music, cinema and creative industries centre, Mareel in Lerwick on the Shetland Isles, hosted our first 2012 AmbITion Scotland roadshow. On the topic of Glo/cal, the roadshow explored how local and community focussed projects can encourage global participation and engagement through utilising digital tools. Hannah Rudman gave an overview of the…