Video examples
Story videos for The Auction Barn
The Auction Barn
Six videos for one week of online sales: what people are clicking on, what's drawing the top bids, and the stories behind the lots.
The most clicked lot
"Guess which one people can't stop clicking on so far."
A countdown of the most viewed lots. Number one is never shown: you have to go and look.
A king's cabinetmaker
"Why does this cabinet hold the top bid so far?"
A French Boulle pier cabinet, and the brass and tortoiseshell technique named after Louis XIV's cabinetmaker.
Gloves beating antiques
"Why are a pair of gloves outbidding the antiques?"
Hermès gloves and Burberrys trench coats, and why one letter on a label tells you a coat's age.
The Marie Antoinette myth
"Legend says this glass was shaped on Marie Antoinette."
Six Lalique champagne coupes, and the real history behind a famous legend.
A flat-pack grandfather clock
"Why does this clock have flat-pack instructions inside?"
An Emperor clock from the company that sold grandfather clocks as kits.
One to watch
"Why is one of the most viewed lots still wide open?"
English brogues with plenty of watchers and nobody showing their hand yet.
Cabinet Stories, Canberra Antiques Centre
A series for the antiques centre inside the Barn: one object, one surprising story, with its own sign-off.
The Dragonfly lamp
"The most famous Tiffany lamp wasn't designed by Tiffany."
Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, told over two dragonfly lamps in the Centre.
Carnival glass
"This glass was once handed out as a prize at the fair."
The "poor man's Tiffany", and how it got its name.
Wedgwood jasperware
"It took nearly three thousand experiments to make this blue."
Josiah Wedgwood's secret-code experiment books.
How they're made
- Filmed on a phone in the showroom. No studio, no extra time from your staff.
- Lots picked from the live sale data: the most viewed and the top bids so far.
- Every fact checked against a named source, shown on screen.
- Voice, captions, a cover with the hook on it, and versions for Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
- Licensed music only, credited in every caption.
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Music: "Gymnopedie No 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Videos made for The Auction Barn, Fyshwick.