Archive for May 12th, 2011

When the Canadian Real Estate Association decided to craft a spot portraying an old woman and her dozens of children living in a shoe-shaped home, they turned to Dashing to craft the colossal structure, inspired by the classic nursery rhyme about a matriarch raising her brood in a shoe. Working with MJZ/Radke Films Director Blue Source via Crispin Porter + Bogusky Toronto, Dashing created an unlikely and impressive building at the nexus of the real and fantastic.

Old Woman is narrated by its star, Carmela, a determined mother who rises at 6 a.m. each day to care for her enormous brood. As she dishes out breakfast, works the endless lines of laundry, leads calisthenics and band practice, and corrals her children onto the school bus, she boasts about how much easier her life has been since moving to her new home and how helpful more

— Event to feature exclusive Kronos demos and Korg giveaways —

WHO: Legendary keyboard manufacturer Korg, along with Korg product experts.

WHAT: Kronos All-Access Party event, offering attendees the opportunity to experience the Kronos, Korg’s new flagship Music Workstation, first-hand. This exclusive one-day-only event will include musical performances and open discussions. Korg’s Kronos crew will be on hand to provide live demos and answer questions. Best of all, attendees will be able to try Kronos for themselves.

Additionally, everyone attending will be eligible to win free Korg gear: the first 20 guests to arrive at the event will receive a free Kronos t-shirt. There will also be a drawing for a Korg Sound on Sound (SOS) unlimited track hand-held recorder, plus other special one-night-only offers.

WHERE: Cascio Interstate Music
13819 West National Avenue
New Berlin, WI 53151
262-789-7600
www.interstatemusic.com

WHEN: Thursday, May 12, 6:30 more

ALT Systems, a full service systems integrator and workflow solutions provider, has expanded their training programs and appointed Brent Gilmartin as Artist Advocate and Senior Trainer. Gilmartin, a certified Autodesk trainer, will lead ALT Systems’ efforts in developing and implementing proprietary courses for Autodesk® Creative Finishing Products, beginning with the company’s new Smoke® for Mac curriculum for professionals new to finishing or unfamiliar with the Smoke interface.

ALT’s new Smoke for Mac University program starts by assisting participants with loading a trial license on their own Mac Pro or MacBook Pro. During class meetings, students will have the opportunity to drive one of ALT’s professionally configured workstations. This combined in-person instruction and experiment-at-home model is designed to improve the educational experience in ways that other training courses do not, and make it easy to learn new software inexpensively.

The training program consists of a free orientation on more

Producer Ken Wales and Technical Leader Dan McGraw Set to Address the Power of Story and Technology

(Burbank, CA) Createasphere – the industry-leading company that brings together experts, exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees to share a vested interest in understanding and shaping the future of the industry – will launch the Executive Marketplace for Houses of Worship (HoW) on July 20-21 in Chicago at the O’Hare Embassy Suites. The event provides an exclusive opportunity to be amongst community peers and participate in solution-focused meetings with leaders in religious entertainment and media development.

Keynoting this first edition of Createasphere’s Executive Marketplace are producer Ken Wales and technical consultant Dan McGraw. On July 20, Wales will outline steps for choosing, crafting, and creating compelling stories that enlighten audiences. The following day, McGraw will discuss how to harness the power of new technologies and methods to reach more

New York: A new 30-second spot for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, produced by Charged Studios, challenges the phrase “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” Delivering a no-holds-barred message against those slippery semantics, the spot asserts a strong opening argument: “A magazine that allows a gun to fire 32 shots in 16 seconds is only good for one thing: killing a lot of people – fast.”

Charged Studios’ team took the spot from script to final ad in five-days. They designed and built the set in studio and worked as a collaborative unit to meet the tight deadline and still deliver an innovative, compelling spot.
The commercial features a man firing a handgun with an extended clip down a firing range, however the generic target traditionally used has been replaced with silhouettes of a little girl, a college student, a more

Christie®, a global leader in digital projection solutions, is the sole provider for all digital projection services at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival, including the Official Selection and the Marché du Film. The company is an official Technical Partner of the Festival, which runs from May 11 – 22, 2011, for the fifth consecutive year.

As a Technical Partner, Christie will provide its DLP Digital Cinema® projectors for the screening of major digital titles throughout the entire Festival. Of the 23 screening rooms that will use digital projection equipment at this year’s Festival, 13 will be equipped with Christie SolariaTM Series projectors. Compliant with all DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) specifications, the Christie Solaria range is scalable and ideally suited to 4K digital cinema. Moreover, the Christie Solaria’s Brilliant3D™ technology also provides the brightest 3D projection available, with an output of 32,000 ANSI lumens. Since more

Kansas City, MO – May 2011 … Avlex Corporation, the name audio professionals turn to for world-class wireless technology and microphones, proudly introduces the MIPRO ACT-82a Dual Channel Encrypted Digital Diversity Receiver. Building upon the success pioneered by the company’s highly acclaimed ACT-82 Digital Wireless Microphone System, the new ACT-82a offers expanded 120 MHz bandwidth, second generation DSP technology, and additional new technologies designed to deliver pristine sound quality and greater range while enhancing the attributes of a full digital wireless system. The new ACT-82a is ideal for use in studio, stage and music performances as well as military, courtroom, conference, healthcare, boardroom, and broadcast applications—wherever audio security and accurate, distortion-free reproduction of the full sound spectrum are essential. more

Utter euphoria is the only way to describe the first date flirtations and cosmic ambiance that is Bowl the Perfect First Date for Bowlmor Lanes, directed by Rabbit’s Marc R. Wilkins, mixed by audioEngine’s Kelly Harnett and edited by The Whitehouse’s Trish Fuller. Edited in reverse and set to an electric trance-inducing track, the spot is a wordless narration of a young couple’s first date at the famed bowling chain.

“The reverse technique was basically in the entire spot, so I wanted to utilize it effectively and keep it fresh in each scene,” noted audioEngine Mixer Kelly Harnett. “I chose to highlight certain moments that enhanced the story by bringing out the uniquely textured reversed sounds, while still letting the music track drive the spot.”

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Christie®, a global visual technologies company, is proud to announce the largest and one of the most prestigious installations of Christie® MicroTiles™ to date in EMEA, at the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square, London. The installation will be utilized in the Exchange’s new Market Open Ceremony.

Christie MicroTiles at the London Stock Exchange

The installation of 508 Christie MicroTiles at the London Stock Exchange follows a recommendation for their use by CMS Consultant Jerry Collins and a subsequent tender won by long-standing Christie Partner, Focus 21 Visual Communications Ltd.

Christie MicroTiles are a unique proposition in display technology, offering video and data display building blocks that can be used to create displays of varying size and shape, which are complementary to their environment.

The new Market Open Ceremony provides companies joining London Stock more

When Ancestry.com wanted to commission a project commemorating the 150-year anniversary of the Civil War’s start, they identified Blind as the ideal company to design and execute the animation/vfx-intensive job. The result is a lyrical, moving and informative piece (presented alternately as a 4:00 long-form Web documentary, a :30, and a :15 spot) about the bloody conflict using the true stories of three soldiers, set against a backdrop of sepia-tinted stills, historical footage and documents culled from millions of records.

“The Civil War’s anniversary is a very important event, and Ancestry.com wanted to use it as a backdrop to encourage people to go to their site and explore it,” reports Blind CD Tom Koh. “They’d scripted the stories from records available on the Ancestry.com site, and the film became an engaging way of illustrating the real events that lie behind these historical documents.”

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