Museum Open Day

Every once in a while we’re just completely amazed by our clients. As a video marketing agency, we’re privileged to work with a wide range of interesting clients. However, in some occasions, some projects make you feel extra proud to be a part of.

The BBC series Peaky Blinders has been nothing short of a phenomenon. With four seasons already available, a fifth set to return in 2019 and plans to run seven in total, the Shelbys have almost become fictional Birmingham royalty. This new world wide interest in the real Peaky Blinders and Birmingham has sparked great opportunities for tourism in Brum. Peaky Blinder tours are so popular that it is difficult to get your place booked! With this increased attention for the Peaky Blinders, crime and policing, it’s a perfect moment to highlight one of our latest videos. This time, we capture history with video marketing.

The Peaky Blinders series and characters were based on an actual gang in Birmingham. And we know this thanks many amazing records and photographs from the West Midlands Police Museum collection.

Amongst other amazing artefacts and objects, pictures of the original Peaky Blinders are safely stored in the West Midlands Police Museum. However, it’s not open to the public. Obviously, a collection like this deserves an audience. And that’s where we come in.

As the West Midlands Police Museum is looking to relocate to the Lockup on Steel House Lane in Birmingham, we’re creating video content to help secure the funds needed to bring this collection to the public.

This production process lead us to meet some amazing people within the West Midlands Police. As it turns out, a Police Museum is more than just a collection of artefacts. Instead it is a place where the public can see and learn about the great and important history of policing. Ultimately, a police force can only work when it is supported and trusted by the public.

Filming this project was amazing. Not just the actual production phase, but the time we got in between interviews to sit down and talk to the amazing police officers. Their personal stories and anecdotes were amazing, touching and exciting at the same time. I truly get how Steven Knight got the inspiration to pen down the Peaky Blinders characters.

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The big difference between the Peaky Blinders and our video is the fact that ours isn’t a work of fiction. Instead, ours covers real stories from real people here in the West Midlands. And the amazing thing is that while talking to all our interviewees, we didn’t even scratch the surface of all the stories you can find in the collection of the museum. When you see all those old photographs, touch the old uniforms and smell the paper of the case rapports, that’s what real history is about.

Normally, we work on what we call cinematic trailers. But these projects, where we’re able to listen to real experiences, are something different. They make us proud to make a difference.