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).

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Radar’s New Burbank Office

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Radar Delivers For QVC

When QVC needed a crew to film Suze Orman and Jillian Michaels for its Fall promotional campaign, they called Radar. Working under a tight deadline, Radar filmed Orman and Michaels and had the Hi-Def footage FedExed to QVC within 48 hours. You can see the spot on QVC or click here to watch it.

Tags: crew, dp, film, hi-def, jillian michaels, promotional, qvc, spot, suze orman, tv

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!

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Welcome to Skip1.org

Radar’s creative team designed and produced the website for Skip1.org, a new non-profit organization that taps into the world’s wealth to help bring food & water to children in need. The new site has several key components such as a revolving billboard, user-generated accounts, a store, aggregated content from Twitter and a Skip1 leaderboard so people can see who’s skipping and why. Visit the site, skip something and let us know what you think. The website is live but won’t “officially” launch until September 1st, 2009.

Tags: 501c3, launch, non-profit, npo, skip1, skip1.org

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.

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