Unmarketing, AKA Scott Stratten, served up a stellar keynote without notes, a mic or even notes to an enthusiastic crowed on the roof of the Merchandise Building in Toronto. Scott’s blunt and in-your-face approach to social media was appreciated by most everyone, even the most jaded in social media/ communications professionals present.
Scott manages to explain in a colourful and entertaining manner that perhaps social media isn’t for some people… and some people are idiots.
The Biz Media thanks all who were able to make it out to our first #TheBizMedia Sessio; you are all wicked awesome.
This is a segment of our info-graphic story board
At The Biz Media we have been authoring an ultra-secret internal project concerning the state of online video. We have finished the research, sketches and script. We are now entering an animation phase.
The style is going to be an info-graphic video that uses a lot of simple but effective vector art.
We decided to build a series of “art boards” in Adobe illustrator, which were each 1920 x 1080. On each of these cells or key frames, we include drafts of our vector elements and with the audio script below in black and beside it an action script in red.
This is the first time we at The Biz Media have drafted vector art boards, usually we use pen and paper. There are some things when putting something like this together:
1. Have each art board as a separate layer and turn them off when not being used, this will ease the load on your computer
2. Use no rasterized graphics or textures, these will really slow things down… a lot.
3. Have very large spaces between cells for notes and animation stages.
4. Have a fast machine, Macbooks will not cut it.
Here are the settings used for this job. Let me know if there is anything that you see to optimize it.
Rob Borts reflecting on his first video project lead:
One of the projects I’ve had the recent pleasure of being a part of was the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of Canada’s PSA, which announces their annual “Heel’N’Wheel-a-thon.”
Before I started production, I thought it would be a simple, straightforward project to coordinate and collaborate with others upon. As I learned from having to wait nearly 4 months for a meeting with CCFC’s representative, very rarely is it ever that simple. From this, I learned one lesson above all others; very rarely will things go exactly as you had initially anticipated them to.
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There are a few milestones we have hit in our two years as a business – there are many milestones we hope to hit in the years to come. This milestone is one I never thought we would hit. It’s the ultimate declaration of fanhood. Today I am proud to be a part of the coolest company I know. And also a little bit weirded out.
Here is a picture of Ben showcasing the magazine that was given out at The Art of Management conference. We had a full page ad in the magazine and while print is not normally our cup of tea – we thought this was a pretty good use of a page. By complete fluke we chose a similar font to the Marcus Buckingham article next to our ad. I’m sure many people read our article thinking Marcus Buckingham wrote it. Mwahahha!
He didn’t though.
Dima Beznosov, our good friend and regular script/copywriter wrote it and the art direction was done by Alessandro Würgler.
