radar multimedia

Radar Produces Media Content for Dark Knight Premiere

Wendy Creed, an industry leader in event & environmental design & production, recently tapped Radar Multimedia to produce media content for the New York City premiere of "The Dark Knight." Radar's Drew Lucas and Gorman Stanley created more than 30 minutes of original content for the 16-screen display in the middle of the room as well as projected content for the chandeliers around the room. The Radar team worked closely with Visions Lighting to make sure Wendy's vision could be technically executed flawlessly on-site.

Click here for the write up in BizBash.

Radar Produces Video for AFP

Americans for Prosperity, an organizations committed to educating citizens about economic policy and a return of the federal government to its Constitutional limits, recently tapped Radar Multimedia to help produce a video for its recent RightOnline (Defending the American Dream) Summit in Austin, Texas this month.

Click here to view the video on YouTube or watch it below:

Foursquare Live!

The Foursquare Church recently tapped Radar to help produce the Foursquare Live! event. With only three weeks notice, Radar helped TFC coordinate the lighting and live video elements for a live concert event on March 12th in Eagle Rock. The April 5th event was a combination of pre-taped concert footage from the 12th, and a 4-camera live studio portion that was broadcast to more than 200 churches nationwide in both English and Spanish. The 5-hour satellite event was transmitted live from HD Vision Broadcast Center in Studio City with the help of CCN and PACSAT. Radar's Matthew Warren directed the simulcast with Derek Williams and Drew Lucas serving as co-producer and stage manager respectively.

Old Radar 24P Reel

I found this video today. It's from September 2004. It made me want to go back to Uganda. This is a 24P showreel that Radar cut together featuring footage from the Panasonic 100A, which Radar had just purchased at the time. It was intended to show how video holds up in harsh sunlight, silked environments, available interior light and long lens situations. I'm looking forward to seeing the new showreel once we shoot some footage on the HPX3000.

Matt Warren

Fraud Angels

Fraud Angels follows Farley's angels as they investigate a major "foreclosure rescue" scam in California and Minnesota. The film stars Jill-Michele Meleán (Mad TV, Reno 911!), Audrey Wasilewski (Big Love, Pushing Daises), Teri Bibb (The Ring Two) and Jeremy Kent Jackson (ER, CSI). Produced by Kristi Kennelly; written by Mary E. Harris; directed by Matthew Warren; edited by Corey Yaktus; director of photography Darren Rydstrom; UPM/1st AD Kim North; production coordinator Robin McFarland.

Fraud Angels is the fourth DVD in a series for Interthinx™, the nation's leader in risk mitigation and compliance tools. Interthinx is relied upon by over 1,400 customers, including 15 of the top 20 mortgage lenders and 3 of the 5 largest financial institutions.

Fraud Angels will be a two disc DVD with the movie and extras on disc 1 and red flag training chapters on disc 2. Click here to visit the Fraud Angels website.

In 2007, Radar produced FSI: Fraud Scheme Investigation, the third DVD in the series that's currently being used by the FBI, Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice. FSI won more than 15 awards and was featured on CNN Headline News. In 2005, Radar produced Desperate House Lies for Interthinx.

Click here to download the latest press release (3/20/08).
Click here to download the 1/29/08 press release.
Click here for the Fraud Angels photo album (courtesy of Moses Sparks).

3/15/08 Update:

Fraud Angels Premieres in Chicago

Fraud Angels premiered March 13th at MBA's National Fraud Issues Conference at the Palmer House in Chicago. You can click here for more information regarding the world premiere and conference. Pictures from the premiere are coming soon.

Lounge 22

Radar was tapped by Lounge 22 to film their newest product line. The HD footage was part of their Las Vegas party at Planet Hollywood on February 25th.

HD DVD is Dead

So HD DVD is officially dead. Toshiba announced today that they would discontinue developing, manufacturing and marketing HD DVD players and recorders. The announcement ends a two-year-long battle with Blu-ray Disc to succeed DVD (even though Blu-ray still has a long way to go since most players are still experiencing incredible-long load times and glitches with the firmware). The move came soon after both Wal-Mart and Netflix announced they would only carry Blu-ray product, and Best Buy announced it would give preference to Blu-ray. Warner Home Video's decision in early January to only support Blu-ray left HD DVD with Paramount Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Entertainment as the only major studios supporting the format. Hardware sales data the week after Warner's announcement showed 93% of high-def players sold were Blu-ray, according to The NPD Group, and Nielsen VideoScan data has consistently shown Blu-ray software outselling HD DVD 3:1 or more. Toshiba significantly lowered its player prices during the holiday season, and Microsoft dropped the price of its Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on by $50 earlier this month. Toshiba also bought a 30-second Super Bowl ad for a reported $2.7 million, but apparently was not effective in boosting sales or digging into Blu-ray's lead.

What do you think? Will you miss HD DVD or is it "c'est la vie"?

(thanks to The Hollywood Reporter.com for the complete story)

Public Storage

Radar was tapped by Ethos to produce event media for Public Storage's annual conference in Anaheim. Media included some keynote slides, general session wallpapers, a highlight video and stage management.

Click here to see more images from the event.

Ripples Happen

Todd Ross asked us to shoot a short opening video for his new website Ripples Happen.com. The welcome video was shot & edited by Drew Lucas. An interview with Shelene Bryan will appear on the site later.

FSI in the News

Click here to read the article about FSI in the Ventura County Star. Interthinx's Mike Zwerner and writer Mary Harris are mentioned in the article.

Filming Tim Timmons for QUAD

Drew, Derek and I went to Irvine yesterday to film Tim Timmons for our upcoming QUAD DVD. We recorded Tim performing two of his new songs and then sat down with him for an on-camera interview. Tim has a great testimony and his music is powerful. We're excited about having him be a part of the first QUAD DVD. We used two HVX200's which allowed Drew to edit on the way home.

Lunch on the Set

Lunch on the set of the Jafra Class Video.

Jafra Class Videos

Radar is in post production on two Jafra Class videos: one in English and one in Spanish. The two 20-minute videos were shot on DVCPRO50 and were lit by Darren Rydstrom. Both videos teach viewers how to host a Jafra Pamper Party and Class in their own home and the benefits of Jafra's new product line (due to launch next month). Renee Raudman (Enlgish) and Raquel Fourmier (Spanish) served as Hosts with a cast of ladies that included Robin Phelps and Gigi Palomera. Filming took place over two days in Thousand Oaks. Click here for behind the scenes pictures.

Radar in Peru

New pictures from our recent trip to Peru have been uploaded to the photo albums on the left. Out of 700 images, these were the best. Enjoy!

Harry Potter Premiere

Radar Creative was tapped by Wendy Creed Productions for the premiere of the latest Harry Potter movie last week. Radar's Drew Lucas created 12 After Effects comps for 12 vertical plasmas that were designed to look like old picture frames. Each "painting" featured a character from the movie posing and looking directly into camera. Every once in awhile, a character would blink or slightly move its head as guests walked down the long hallway inside the premiere after-party (produced by Wendy Creed). Radar teamed up with Warner Bros. Visual FX house in London to accomplish the end result.

filming luigi

Drew and I filmed Luigi, the inventor of jazz dance technique, for Steve Hand today. We filmed at his studio on 68th street and then at his home in the city. Thanks to Luigi and Francis for letting us tag along. Pictures coming soon.

radar shoots doc trailer

Drew and I will be shooting in New York next week for Steve Hand's documentary on Luigi, a famous choreographer who's taught everyone from Liza Minelli to John Travolta. Once we get back to LA, Drew will cut together a 10 minute trailer in order to raise the necessary funds to shoot the entire doc. More on that later.

top video content websites of 2006

As mentioned in Cynopsis Digital, here are the top sites adults used to view video content online in 2006, from Piper Jaffray. The numbers represent the percentage of respondents who said they viewed video on these sites:

YouTube 43.5%
TV Network Sites 41%
Google Video 26.5%
MSN Video 24.5%
Yahoo! Video 22%
MySpace 16.5%
AOL 13.5%
Other 17.5%

fsi update

FSI picked up 5 more awards from the Aurora Awards yesterday. FSI won in the categories of Issue Awareness, Writing, Directing, Cinematography and Editing. FSI has won a total of 12 awards and was an official selection for the World of Comedy Film Festival in Toronto this year. Plans are underway to send the film to all financial legislative committees nationwide.

Many of you have seen the recent headlines about the subprime mortgage market and foreclosures that could easily affect the entire housing market, which makes up 16% of the Gross Domestic Product. Fraud has been the under-reported story in these headlines, and we’ll all start hearing more and more about how the consequences of greed and criminal activity in terms of “little ol’ mortgage fraud” will affect us all.

Hopefully this film will continue to educate law makers, law enforcers and industry professionals for years to come – or until we focus on the next film.

-- Kristi Kennelly, Interthinx™

morris chevy spots (re-posted)

Some of you have asked for a direct link to the William Morris Chevy spots we did last year (still airing on Time Warner). So here they are:

"Golf"
"HHR"
"Stiff"
"Celebrity"
"Beauty"
"Milkshake"
"Missing"
"Service"
"Therapist"