Check out the contest website (http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill) to view and vote.
We’ve also included the new set of finalists here (they’re in no particular order).
Missing
Missing from EyeQ Films on Vimeo.
The Seer
The Seer from Wandering Hat on Vimeo.
Miracle
Miracle from Ryan Booth on Vimeo.
The X Factor
Chapter:5 The X Factor from Alejandro Guimoye on Vimeo.
Leverage
Chapter 5: Leverage from jelani memory on Vimeo.
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Chapter 4: Allison from Jeff Turick on Vimeo.
You can also watch the Director’s commentary and technical notes on the piece:
Allison: SBTS Chapter 4 Commentary from Jeff Turick on Vimeo.
]]>Check out the contest website to view and vote.
We’ve also included the finalists here (they’re in no particular order):
The Greater Good
Enter the Detective
A Gift from Artemis
Divergence
Allison
Check it out.
“Beyond the Still” Chapter 2 Finalists Announced!/The Story Beyond the Still Chapter 2 Winner announced and Chapter 3 begins/“Beyond the Still” Chapter 3 Finalists Announced!/]]>Check out the contest website to view and vote.
We’ve also included the finalists here (they’re in no particular order).
“Beyond the Still” Chapter 2 Finalists Announced!/The Story Beyond the Still Chapter 2 Winner announced and Chapter 3 begins/Chapter 3 Winner Announced/]]>Chapter 3 has now started, based on the final still of “Job Security” and entries will accepted through March 22, 2010. What story to you see beyond this latest still?
Credits:
Credits for “Job Security” from Runner Runner on Vimeo.
“Beyond the Still” Chapter 2 Finalists Announced!/“Beyond the Still” Chapter 3 Finalists Announced!/Chapter 3 Winner Announced/]]>To check out all five and vote, please visit the contest homepage: http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill
We’ve also included the five finalist videos below, but remember, you have to go to the contest website to vote!! Please note that these are in no particular order.
The Story Beyond the Still Chapter 2 Winner announced and Chapter 3 begins/“Beyond the Still” Chapter 3 Finalists Announced!/Chapter 3 Winner Announced/]]>“The Story Beyond the Still” challenges photographers to interpret a still image and communicate the story behind it using high definition video. The winning entry from each segment of the six-part contest will set the still image to be interpreted in the following chapter. The story begins with a video shot by acclaimed photographer and Canon expert Vincent Laforet, entitled “The Cabbie.”
Five finalists will be selected for each chapter by a panel of judges that includes Rick McCallum (Producer, “Star Wars”), Russell Carpenter (Director of Photography, “Titanic”), Rodney Charters (Director/Director of Photography, “24”), Shane Hurlbut (Director of Photography, “Terminator Salvation”), Stu Maschwitz (Senior Visual FX Supervisor, “The Spirit”), Blake Whitman (Director/Editor, founder of Vimeo.com), Nick Childs (Director/Producer/VP of Grey Advertising), Director/Director of Photography Philip Bloom, and Mr. Laforet. Entries will then be voted on by the public to produce a winner. The creator of each winning chapter will each receive a prize package that includes a choice of Canon EOS 7D or 5D Mark II, a choice of select Canon lenses, a trip to shoot short film with Vincent Laforet, and a year-long Vimeo Plus membership.
“Beyond the Still” Chapter 2 Finalists Announced!/The Story Beyond the Still Chapter 2 Winner announced and Chapter 3 begins/“Beyond the Still” Chapter 3 Finalists Announced!/]]>
Tweet tweet! @ViaCord is now live on Twitter. Check them out to interact with the Stem Cell Guru, Patient Advocate, Chief Lab Coat, and Cybernaut. Ask them tough questions about cord blood banking, stem cells, and being a market leader; they’re well trained, willing, and able to help people learn about these emerging technologies.
About ViaCord:
Being a leader in cord blood banking and research means providing the highest quality service, care, and science.
Our Mission: To provide the highest quality stem cell preservation service and care to our patients, families, and their physicians. We at ViaCord believe these words are much more than just a promise. They are the commitment we live by.
Our Origins: ViaCord was established in 1993 to give expectant parents an opportunity to bank their children’s cord blood with comfort and security. Prior to launching our Cord Blood Banking Service, ViaCord conducted extensive research and validation studies to set high standards regarding the collection, processing, and storage of cord blood.
ViaCord’s headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts; a recognized global hub of biotechnology. All cord blood collections are processed and stored at our state-of-the-art cord blood cryopreservation facility outside of Cincinnati.
ViaCord Chooses Pandemic Labs/ViaCord Launches the Official ViaCord Blog/]]>You’ll hear from our experts, families and staff with an insightful and unique perspective on stem cells and cord blood. Please join in the conversation as we journey together into an exciting new era of stem cell medicine. We hope to connect with you.
About ViaCord:
Being a leader in cord blood banking and research means providing the highest quality service, care, and science.
Our Mission: To provide the highest quality stem cell preservation service and care to our patients, families, and their physicians. We at ViaCord believe these words are much more than just a promise. They are the commitment we live by.
Our Origins: ViaCord was established in 1993 to give expectant parents an opportunity to bank their children’s cord blood with comfort and security. Prior to launching our Cord Blood Banking Service, ViaCord conducted extensive research and validation studies to set high standards regarding the collection, processing, and storage of cord blood.
ViaCord’s headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts; a recognized global hub of biotechnology. All cord blood collections are processed and stored at our state-of-the-art cord blood cryopreservation facility outside of Cincinnati.
ViaCord Chooses Pandemic Labs/ViaCord Goes a-Tweeting/]]>Specifically designed to capture the interest of their target demographic as well as the younger demographics, the videos are scheduled to be released in series. Pandemic will be seeding, promoting, and engaging infuencers on behalf of Purolator and the purisms.
]]>Unhappy with their previous social agency, the executives at the emerging ecommerce site, RockyBid.com, decided to tap Pandemic Labs to drive their Social Media Advertising campaigns across all channels. In the first month of testing, CPAs were down significantly, site traffic was up and the site is on target to beat their aggressive growth goals.
]]>We believe that trust is essential to any relationship. When you sell us your engagement or wedding rings, diamonds, watches and other fine jewelry, you’re not just selling to anyone. You’re selling to a reliable and widely-respected company that guarantees your satisfaction.*
OutOfYourLife.com is a division of Lippincott, LLC, a nationally-recognized leader that for almost 20 years has offered customers a fast, friendly and reliable way to sell diamonds, gold, platinum, watches and other fine jewelry items. The company is headquartered in Narberth, PA.
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]]>About Planet Eureka!:
The USA National Innovation Marketplace is a service of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) and is a national network comprising hundreds of specialists who understand the needs of small and medium-size manufacturers. They have worked with thousands of manufacturers delivering $1.44 billion in cost savings annually and $10.5 billion in increased or retained sales in year one. As a part of their National Innovation Marketplace, they are a field force that can help businesses and individuals connect and accelerate their growth. They can help use and interpret the Merwyn Business Simulation Research Report, help you negotiate with potential partners and help you create and find new ideas to grow your business. MEP is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
]]>Pandemic Labs was on hand to record the event in HD video and to conduct interviews with each of these legendary barmen. Some of the party footage can be seen here:
The event was a hit with local and international travel press and helped spread the word of the modern-yet-classic hotels and venues of The Dorchester Collection.
The Dorchester Collection Chooses Pandemic/]]>Stay tuned for the videos.
About The Dorchester Collection:
The Dorchester Collection is the successor to the Dorchester Group, originally established in 1996 to manage a portfolio of some of the world’s foremost luxury hotels in Europe and the USA. By applying its unrivaled experience and capability in owning and operating some of the world’s great individual hotels, the company’s vision is to become the ultimate hotel management company, with a passion for excellence and innovation, honouring the individuality and heritage of its iconic hotels. This will be achieved through acquisition as well as management of wholly-owned and part-owned hotels.
About Hawkins International Public Relations:
Innovative, experienced and teeming with talent, Hawkins International is a boutique, results-oriented public relations firm specializing in global luxury travel, real estate, wellness and lifestyle clients. Located in the heart of Manhattan, with a satellite office in Los Angeles, we specialize in executing creative and strategic national media relations campaigns for our clients. As the agency of record for several renowned upscale resorts, hotels and spas, we are dedicated to approaching public relations in a spirited and pro-active manner.
The Legendary Barmen of the Dorchester Collection/]]>Fans of the company’s first game, Amazer, had taken online video, forums, and the community surrounding the game into their own hands via various online videos that were out of Challenge You’s control.
]]>In beta, Howsthebar.com helps party-goers find the right bar for them dynamically in real time.
]]>Working with trusted video production partner out of Boston, coBRANDiT, Pandemic Labs is managing the production and seeding of the entire daily series of videos into 2009.
“We’re excited to be working with such a seasoned team of business professionals at the outset of such an exciting company,” says Brennan White, Co-Founder of Pandemic Labs. “Daily Grommet is going to be such a great online location for people to find rare, handmade products and is definitely going to be a great success.”
About Daily Grommet:
At the heart of it, we’re a bunch of regular folks with a passion for finding Grommets; wonderful products–with interesting stories–that people would love to know about. We’re independent—no one pays us to select a product. In fact, the best thing is, lots of people help us by sharing their own favorite discoveries. In that way, our “team” is anyone who believes that we can make a difference by celebrating the useful, innovative, and beautifully crafted Grommets we collectively discover.
]]>The leader in the burgeoning cord blood banking space, ViaCord wants to be able to track new mentions of the brand across blogs, forums, social networks and the general internet. Working with Pandemic Labs, ViaCord is also tracking the general cord blood banking discussion across the internet to determine exactly how their marketing efforts affect their share of online buzz.
Pandemic Labs’ is using its internal online reputation management tools to track ViaCord and a host of other brands. Concurrently with these brand tracking initiatives, Pandemic Labs is heavily into the roll-out of this program as a standalone software tool.
“We’ve used each of the many brand tracking tools out there and not a single one can compare with the accuracy and depth of a skilled team doing it manually,” says Pandemic Labs Co-Founder Matt Peters. “With our tool, we’re automating 99% of the online brand tracking process, overcoming the accuracy and depth issues of the other tools and completely revamping the subjective parts of the process like keyword and sentiment. So far, it is making our clients extremely happy. There is no question that it’s going to be extremely useful to brands and agencies alike.”
About ViaCord:
Being a leader in cord blood banking and research means providing the highest quality service, care, and science.
Our Mission: To provide the highest quality stem cell preservation service and care to our patients, families, and their physicians. We at ViaCord believe these words are much more than just a promise. They are the commitment we live by.
Our Origins: ViaCord was established in 1993 to give expectant parents an opportunity to bank their children’s cord blood with comfort and security. Prior to launching our Cord Blood Banking Service, ViaCord conducted extensive research and validation studies to set high standards regarding the collection, processing, and storage of cord blood.
ViaCord’s headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts; a recognized global hub of biotechnology. All cord blood collections are processed and stored at our state-of-the-art cord blood cryopreservation facility outside of Cincinnati.
ViaCord Launches the Official ViaCord Blog/ViaCord Goes a-Tweeting/]]>Working with video production partner, coBRANDit, Pandemic Labs seeded, tracked and promoted a series of documentary-style videos of Puma-sponsored runner Usain Bolt during the Olympics. The videos were promoted across a network of video sites and were featured on the front page of YouTube receiving over 700,000 views for the campaign over the two weeks of the Olympics. In addition to a tremendous response in view count, the promotion created over 100 “secondary seeds” (unique new instances of the same video content) of the video as well as generating over 2500 comments, and receiving over 900 channel subscribers. This effort created a significant, positive branding impact for Puma and the largest single day traffic spike to any Puma web property ever.
The official Usain Bolt YouTube channel can be viewed here.
About Puma:
PUMA has the long-term mission of becoming the most desirable Sportlifestyle company. The aim of Phase IV of PUMA’s long-term oriented business plan, which was launched in 2006, is to reinforce its position as one of the leading multi-category Sportlifestyle brands.
We will achieve our goals by continuing to do what we have always done – harnessing our resources and experiences to provide our consumers with innovative products that successfully fuse the creative influences from the world of sport, lifestyle and fashion.
]]>Cooks Compass provides a unique service to foodies and cooks that will first be offered in the Greater Boston area and followed-up quickly by more national exposure. The brainchild of a team of cooks and techies, the site allows foodies and cooks to compile information on local ingredients and local food stores. Soon anyone looking to find rare ingredients such as Kewra Water or Black Truffle Oil, will soon not only be able to find the closest store to their location, but also read reviews on quality and service.
Pandemic Labs has been tapped to manage the Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising and provide online strategy among other more specific promotions.
If you’re local to Boston, take a peek at Cooks Compass for local info on interesting ingredients you won’t find at your chain supermarket!
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myUsearch LLC, a leading online destination for students during their college search, has chosen Pandemic Labs for social media optimization and promotion of their blog. The blog, taking on topics ranging from college search to choice of major, is an unbiased hub of information in an increasingly biased space. Pandemic Labs will be used to increase visibility of each blog post as well as the site overall in addition to increasing the presence of myUsearch on social media sites.
About myUsearch:
myUsearch is an unbiased online resource dedicated to objectively matching students with colleges and providing fair and accurate college enrollment information.