Archive for July 22nd, 2011

Charlex recently completed Projects, the third and final installment in a series of new spots for Doner and client Sherwin-Williams and their line of Krylon paint sprays. The spot’s objective was twofold; first, show off Krylon’s Projects in a Can website; next, illustrate that idea by transforming a beaten-up old mailbox into a series of artfully themed and created mailboxes.

To do this, the Charlex team cleverly turned the piece into a time-lapse sequence that follows a single mailbox over the course of some fifty years. “It was a great platform for us to use the Krylon product itself in different ways, and to challenge my art team to come up with a bunch of creative ideas for all the different mailboxes,” explains Charlex Director Ryan Dunn.

While the first spot, Brand, featured stop-motion animation, and the second spot, more

Content partners can now directly access real-time statistics related to their accounts, track site activity, and download reports.

New York, NY – July 20, 2011 – Footage.net, the stock, archival and news footage search engine, has launched a new subscriber analytics site, providing content partners with instant access to key stats on site activity and user interaction with their data and content.

“Our content partners want immediate access to relevant data about their online marketing,” said David Seevers, Footage.net CMO. “Footage.net users are searching for footage, screening clips and sending Zaps in growing numbers, and this new site lets our content partners track what’s happening with their data, clips and ads in real-time.”

Giving subscribers the ability to access and analyze site statistics is a key part of Footage.net’s ongoing effort to help subscribers make optimal use of its stock footage search platform. Content more

Showcasing a pair of emerging retro soul artists—Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae, along with opening acts, Plan B, Patrick Stump and Mayer Hawthorne—the two-month ‘Hooligans in Wondaland’ tour wound its way through sheds across North America in early summer. The Clair Global-supported outing was outfit with a double dose of DiGiCo SD8s—both equipped with DiGiCo/Waves SoundGrid bundle—plus two DigiRacks (one stage 56 mic in/8 line out, and one local 8 mic in/40 line in/8 AES/EBU I/O, and 40 line out) per console. The consoles were shared among the acts’ respective engineers: Derek Brener (Mars FOH), Mike Graham (Mars monitors), Reggie Griffith (assistant FOH Monae), and Alex McCloud (Monae monitors) and Clair Systems Tech, Ben Rothstein.

ReggieGriffith, Ben Rothstein, Derek more

Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve Lite, a new reduced feature version of DaVinci Resolve that includes many powerful color correction features in a downloadable software package available free of charge, is now shipping. more