With the production of the the TEDx Toronto teaser, which was launched today we wanted to present

“The  universal nature of the TED conference with a Toronto aesthetic”

As is clear with the final product, we took  this motif quite literally.   The infinity of space intercepted by our favorite TED talks, ideas about the human condition spiral in to form our pale blue… err… red dot.  Unsatisfied with stock Toronto time-lapses, The Biz Media crew camped out for 5 hours at Poison St. on the east side of the Toronto Harbor to capture the sunset.

View Time Lapse TEDx Toronto in a larger map

We used the Cannon 7D to capture a series of 460 photos from a Cannon 7D, snapping one photo every 30 seconds from 7pm to 11pm, we were able to try our new Intervolomintor.  When we first started shooting, our shutter speed was set at 1/2000 of a second, by the end we were shooting at 13 seconds a frame.  We actually can’t wait to try this again, this time from the Toronto island with a complete 24 hour cycle.

The Biz Media will continue to produce all future video content including a multi camera live stream of TEDxToronto, bringing the world to the ideas of our fair city.

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.

Hi there,

Thanks for stopping by. If you’re an avid blogger you may be wondering what
this blog has to offer – or in other words what you can learn from us. Well,
I don’t really know. We once tried blogging about effective business
strategies with a focus on young entrepreneurs but we folded that idea
pretty quickly. What we learned from that experience though was that
blogging was easily searchable and by blogging, random people found their
way into our website.

That’s why were blogging again!

We like random people here! We’re a business! And we’re proud to do
business!

So if you randomly popped in, once again WELCOME! We are happy to have you
drop in because we feel strongly about what we do and being able to work
with new people is one of the reasons we got into business in the first
place. So here is the declaration! THIS is what our new blog will be about:

WELCOME to The Biz Media’s blog about THE BIZ MEDIA! For all you people who
have no idea who we are, this is where we will post the video’s we have
made, client testimonials about us, fun things we are up to, and sometimes
just things that we have found online that we love and feel you will love
too. You found your way to us and right here is where you can learn a whole
ton about who we are, what we like and what we do.

Please feel free to leave a comment – we would love to hear from you!

Cheers,

Dan Demsky