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:
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.
Google has will be announcing a new 360 streetside view for Google maps at Where 2.0 today, says O’Reily Radar. The 360 views are a better version of Amazon’s A9 static panoramas. Google’s views let users virtually stand in the middle of any street, able to look in a full circle around the location, giving a better feel of the place you’ll be going. It will reportedly be available in Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
The imaging used in the new feature was collected by a company called Immersive Media, whose vans throughout these cities to collect the photos. You can see a demo here.
Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006, then the Financial Times reported they were in talks with Viacom a month later.
Now, The UK’s Telegraph is reporting that Yahoo is looking, and may pay as much as $1 billion. Just one problem, though. The Telegraph isn’t exactly known for breaking tech M&A stories, and the rumor has an exceptionally weak source - “according to silicon valley gossip” the article says. That sounds like something the Telegraph’s correspondent overheard after ten or twelve cocktails last night at a party. And while I don’t doubt that Yahoo is sniffing around Bebo, $1 billion seems a tad high for the service.
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%
American Vision Windows & Kitchens tapped Radar Creative to produce several web videos for American Vision's new website which is expected to launch in April. The videos include a warm welcome from American Vision owners Bill & Kathleen Herren and several videos featuring Kathleen welcoming visitors to several different pages within the site. Filming took place on March 29th in Simi Valley. Radar used green screen for Kathleen's segments and actually tested a few backdrop looks before settling on the home interior you can now see on the website. Radar's Matthew Warren directed the videos with Drew Lucas lending his talents to the editing side. Radar used its Panasonic 100A camera with a Kino Flo package for lighting. Tyler D'Askquith served as director of Photography with Kelly Butler overseeing the production audio. The crew ate Baja Fresh for lunch.
RG Entertainment has tapped Radar Creative to create a website, DVD and movie poster for Lucifer, a movie being produced & directed by Ray Griggs of RG Entertainment. Some of Hollywood's top "A List" players collaborated on the movie trailer including cinematographer Russell Carpenter, a well-known film scoring orchestra, Cafe FX and ADI. Griggs plans on shopping the DVD trailer around town in order to raise the necessary financing needed to film the feature length movie. Click here to view the website (a work in progress) or visit www.luciferthemovie.com. Don't forget to sign the guestbook.
"Zoom-to-reveal" design (or ZTR as I'll refer to it in this blog) is becoming more and more of a trend in the design world.
A few years ago, websites like Mapquest and Google maps introduced us to an old concept: zooming in to reveal more. You might be familiar with the work of Charles Eams and his Orders of Magnitude, but this concept of zooming in to reveal more information as it relates to the Information Age and not the Scientific World, is a newer concept. Let me explain.
With Google Maps, we can choose what information we want to see and on what level. You can choose Earth, continent, country, state, county, city, highway, road, sidewalk, ant... you get the idea. Stay at a higher elevation if you're wanting to know where a person's home is in relationship to the freeway; zoom in closer if you want to see where a person's home is in relationship to the street (ie: end of the cul-de-sac, before the right turn, etc...).
So now companies are using this mentality with designing their sites. Stay at a higher elevation if you're wanting to know where this company is in relationship to the industry (how do they compare with the other guys?); zoom in closer if you want to see where this company is in relationship to its clients (who are they working with?); zoom in even closer if you want to see where this company is in relationship to specific projects it's producing (why are they different/better/smarter?).
The best example of this is Leo Burnett's website: a creative ad agency in Canada. As you'll see (after you've spent three hours of your life playing with their website), they apply this technique to their world quite brilliantly.
Another example I can't cut & paste here is what TBS (a TV network in the U.S.) is doing with their graphics packages. Drew Lucas found this website (browsegoods.com) and sent it to me -- again, a perfect example of how ZTR is being used effectively in the design world.
What do you think? Is this just a fad or a new way of communicating in a visual world?
Radar recently launched a new website for Wendy Creed Productions. The original HTML website, created in 1997, was scrapped and replaced with a newly designed flash website that boasts fast image loading, transitions and an overall elegant design -- exactly what Wendy Creed was looking for.
Radar designed a new website for producer & author Derek Williams (site: www.derekwilliamslive.com). The site features links to Derek's blog and online store as well as Derek's bio and upcoming projects. Derek created the blog in order to work in concert with the website.
RADAR recently completed work on a new website for Burbank-based special effects house Captive Audience Productions. Captive Audience, known for its Oscar-winning work on more than 100 motion pictures, is also known for its use of Seamless Integration of visual effects and makeup effects. The new website features a project gallery, recent press/PR and opportunities for interested artists. Additional features on the website will be rolled out within the next few months.
Updated February 4, 2007: Captive Audience Productions has filed for bankruptcy. Their website is no longer online. Click here to view the websites which is currently being hosted on Radar's site.
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