Case Studies
Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition
Shakespeare's Globe
We worked closely with the exhibition designers, rwdp, and staff from the Globe's Exhibition and Education departments.
We specified a set of nine installations and for each one managed all aspects of production including: content creation, copyright clearance, graphic design, filming (where appropriate), programming and physical installation.
To drive the interactives, and make sure that they were as reliable as possible, we used our software engine, CAV, which is also the basis for our work at the National Portrait Gallery and Manchester United Museum and other installations.
The full list of interactives is:
- Shakespeare's Bankside - a series of full-screen movies that describe the world he inhabited;
- Special Effects - an interactive that looks at the Elizabethan equivalents of CGI;
- Music - the use of music in Shakespeare's plays, demonstrations by professional musicians and the chance to play your own tunes on a period instrument;
- Karaoke - allows users to record a role with professional Globe actors and then hear the whole scene played out before them;
- The First Folio - a quiz that explains how Shakespeare's work survived;
- The Editor's Choice - demonstrates the difficulties involved in creating a printed version of Shakespeare's plays, and gives users their own printout to take away;
- Our Best Guess - the story of how the Globe was rebuilt, including hundreds of high-resolution images;
- Costumes - use of costumes and material and backstage footage of Anthony and Cleopatra;
- SIGC - a look at Globe centres around the world.
