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Universal Studios Hollywood - Employee Breakfast
2010 marked the 5th consecutive year Radar has produced content for the annual Employee of the Year Breakfast at Universal Studios Hollywood. Throughout the year, Radar films a handful of employee and community events which are then edited together and played at the breakfast. Photos courtesy of Moses Sparks.
Public Storage 2010
For the third year in a row, Radar was asked to provide media elements and on-site stage management for Public Storage’s annual AMC event in Anaheim, CA. Hired by Ethos, Radar produced a highlight video that featured images & highlights from 2009, a spoof on the NBC TV series “The Office,” and a music video featuring some of Public Storage’s senior management staff, employees and field ops. Radar also provided on-site media management, PowerPoint design and operating, camera operators, show directing and stage management. Photos courtesy of Moses Sparks.
Above: Ron Havner, CEO of Public Storage, takes the stage.
Above: More than 600 people attended this year’s AMC event in Anaheim, CA.
Above: Ron Havner, CEO (left), Dale Trow (center) and Radar’s Matthew Warren (right) discuss the general session.
Above: Radar’s Drew Lucas at the tech table.
Project Kindle’s Dance Marathon at UCLA
We’re helping out our friends at Project Kindle today by producing the live webcast of their Dance Marathon at UCLA. Dance Marathon at UCLA 2010 is the 9th annual event of its kind at the UCLA campus. Seeking to educate, fundraise, and spread awareness about the global pediatric AIDS pandemic, Dance Marathon unites over 3,000 students every year in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to literally take a stand against pediatric AIDS. More information on the event can be found here. Watch the stream, chat it up & say hello. We’ll literally be here all night (did we mention it’s a 26-hour dance marathon?). This year, they raised $407,223.73!
Stats update (posted at 1:00 PM PT on 2/14/10): The stream was shared 70 times on Facebook and 47 times on Twitter. The average audience was 65 viewers and peaked at 180+ viewers on 2/14 at 1:00 PM PT. The stream averaged about 90,000+ total viewer minutes).
Highlights from the 1st SkipDay - 9/1/09
Our first ever SkipDay was a huge success with more than 100 people showing up for one hour to help pack 10,920 pounds of food, 546 FoodPaks™ and more than 4,000 pounds of beans for children living in the Caribbean and Latin America. Thanks for your help!
Radar Delivers for the DIRECTV Revolution
Dallas. April 21, 2009. More than 2,000 DIRECTV dealers experience a James Bond-themed casino night party complete with card tables, go go dancers, a unique raffle and dancing at the 2009 DIRECTV Revolution event. Eight 16×9-foot screens were strategically placed around the room and were controlled by an Encore system with multiple playback decks, graphics from laptops and 13 cameras (thanks to DMG). Steve Hand from the HAND Company tapped Radar during the development phase of the project and shared his vision for how the media elements would need to be integrated into the space. More than four hours of content was created for the event.
All eight screens needed to be independently controlled in order to match each corner of the room which featured a city theme: New Orleans, Moscow, Hong Kong and Monte Carlo (pictures and videos coming soon). In addition to the playback media, Radar controlled 13 cameras (6 remote, 2 operated, 5 hidden lipstick cameras) to create a sense of Vegas & Bond-like surveillance throughout the evening. Special thanks to the HAND Company, Kuki Design, Steve Kemble and everyone at DIRECTV for making this an amazing event. Radar’s creative director Drew Lucas headed up the media design & production while Tyler D’Askquith and Angel Banchs served as video director and Encore operator respectively.
Radar Produces Live Webcast
A few months ago, When Derek Williams was making plans to produce the next album for Paul Stephens, I asked if we could stream the 3-day recording session live via a webcast. Weeks later, and with the help of Drew Lucas, our team was in the Firehouse Studios with Paul Stephens, Derek Williams, and the entire band to record Paul’s second album (due out in the Spring of 2009).
The entire process was made available to the world via a free webcast on ForgottenStories.org. Viewers could tune in and watch Paul as he tracked several songs, overdubbed with the talented musicians and tweaked the tracks as needed. And while the artists were busy in the studio, ForgottenStories.org was helping to raise awareness for the more than 14,000 families living in a city dump outside Metro Manila.
The 3 camera webcast features interviews with the musicians as well as special guests who have stopped by the studio to share what they’re up to. Drew was even able to stream to the webcast using his iPhone.
We’ve learned a lot from this webcast and I’ll be blogging about the do’s and don’ts of live multi-cam webcasting in the following days. In the meantime, stop by ForgottenStories.org and pre-order your copy of “The Invitation” DVD/CD today. You’ll be helping families living in extreme poverty.
Matt Warren
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