Total Media Group Editorial

Stryker Corporate Branding Video – June 2009

Total Media Group Produces New Corporate Branding Video for Stryker Corporation. / June 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group is wrapping production of a corporate brand identity video for the Stryker Corporation, headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The video introduces the new brand identity to Stryker employees and customers worldwide and will be distributed in multiple formats and featured on the company website.

Shot entirely in HD (High Definition) in Hong Kong, London, New Jersey and California over two weeks in April, the video features several stories of actual Stryker employees and customers, highlighting Stryker’s focus on patient care, customer relations and support of its employees.

Stryker Corporation is the worlds leading manufacturer and seller of medical devices, with offices globally.

With all post-production conducted at Total Media Group’s South San Francisco, Ca studios, the video was produced by Jonathon Gruber and directed and edited by Atticus Culver-Reese.

Salix Video Game – June 2009

Total Media Group Completes Development of an Original Video Game. / June 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group just finished development and production of an original video game for Salix Pharmaceuticals.

The game, designed in the Nintendo Wii style, is a baseball Home Run Derby, where the player swings the controller at pitches, trying to hit a home run, with the number and distance of hits recorded as the score.

Salix Pharmaceuticals commissioned Total Media Group to develop the game to attract visitors to it’s booth at national tradeshows. The game environment features Salix’s product logos and branding. Salix is one of the leading gastro-intestinal drug manufacturing and sales companies in the United States.

Kris Kunz was creative director and producer of the project for Total Media Group.

Total Media Group Records the “Banking on Life” Conference for Cord Blood Registry

“Banking on Life” Conference / May 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group provided video production services for Cord Blood Registry, under the direction of Christine McMurry, Director of Communications. The medical conference “Banking on Life” was sponsored by Cord Blood Registry and the Center for Bioethics & Culture Network. The event, held in Burlingame, California was highlighted by the appearance of Congresswoman Jackie Speier, a longtime advocate of women and children’s health. Speier represents California’s 12th district, known as the birthplace of biochemistry.
Cord Blood Registry offers services to collect and store cord blood, the blood remaining in the baby’s umbilical cord after the cord has been severed. Doctors have discovered that cord blood is a rich source of unique stem cells and can be used in various medical treatments for conditions such as brain injuries and juvenile diabetes.

Shingo Kohara was the director of photography and Tony Jensen the audio technician for Total Media Group.

Photo captions:
Congresswoman Jackie Speier at “Banking on Life” (top)
Speier talks to Emma Jabs and Chloe Levine, children benefiting from cord blood (bottom)

Fortune 100 Incentive Program – April 2009

Total Media Group Completes Production on Awards Banquets in Cancun, Mexico. / April 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group wrapped production for the 2 night awards recognition and banquet for a multi-company incentive program at the JW Marriott in Cancun this April.

The event was part of a sales incentive reward program for the top 5% of sales representatives for 7 pharmaceuticals companies that are under the umbrella of the parent company, a world-renowned Fortune 100 health and life sciences corporation.

Total Media Group provided the set and scenic design, the live entertainment and all staging and production for the awards recognition evenings, the center-piece of the two week event, featuring two waves of companies.

Chris Carleson was executive producer for Total Media Group, with Carole Deutch as producer and Orla Cunnigham as coordinating producer. Tom Strahan provided set and scenic design.

“Life is a Banquet”

The Story of Academy Award Winning Hollywood Legend, Rosalind Russell. / April 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group recently unveiled its originally produced 60-minute documentary, “Life is a Banquet” , the story of Academy Award winning Hollywood legend, Rosalind Russell.

Sassy, classy and brassy, the raven-haired Russell entranced audiences as a no-nonsense newspaper reporter in 1940’s “His Girl Friday” (with leading man Cary Grant), and in the Broadway production and the film of “Auntie Mame”, making the title character her signature role.

“Life is a Banquet” uses rare home movie footage, clips from her 30 year career and interviews with various colleagues friends and luminaries to tell the story of this gifted star and generous philanthropist. The film is narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Kathleen Turner, and features interviews with Tom Brokaw, Tina Sinatra, Haley Mills, famed designer James Galanos and a host of others.

The film’s world premiere will be at the Stony Brook Film Festival (New York) in July, 2009, followed by the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August, 2009. The national broadcast premier will be on PBS in the fall of 2009.

On October 8, a gala screening benefiting the Rosalind Russell Center for Arthritis Research will be held in San Francisco. Kathleen Turner will be on hand to speak at the benefit. The center was founded by Ms. Russell in the 1970s.

The film was produced entirely by Total Media Group. Jonathon Gruber produced and directed for TMG. Executive Producer was Aldo Panattoni. Offline Editor, Atticus-Culver Reese. Online Smoke Editor, Toshi Onuki.

Funding for the project was provided by the Bob and Connie Lurie Foundation.

Special Presentation at the Blu-ray Disc Association Meeting

Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 / March 1st, 2009

Total Media Group Creative Director Toshi Onuki and Neil Young’s Shakey Pictures were invited to introduce the highlights of Neil Young’s “Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972” at the Blu-ray Disc Association annual meeting in Los Angeles in March.

Creative Director for the project, Toshi Onuki, and Ole Lütjens engineer for MX Entertainment presented on behalf of Shakey Pictures at the general assembly. Onuki shared why he and Mr. Young determined that Blu-ray is the perfect format for showcasing Neil’s archives. The 10-disc set spotlights such technology as 24bit/192kHz stereo PCM audio and the ability to browse photos and documents while listening to the music—arguably the most coveted feature. “We wanted to preserve the ambience of the analog era and designed visual imagery to compliment it. The music comes first and visuals should not distract listeners,” Onuki said. Lütjens explained the technical side of production, demonstrating BD-Live™, which enables users to download additional content to their players or to external drives. Lütjens shared how hundreds of encoding tests were performed in order to accommodate the super high quality audio along with 1920 x 1080 HD resolution videos.

Shakey Pictures and Total Media Group worked over three years sorting through the massive amount of archive material used to create the menu design and page structure under the guidance of Neil Young and his executive producer, L.A. Johnson. The team first revealed a preview of the project at the Sun Microsystems JavaOne Conference in May 2008. Sun Microsystems develops Java, Blu-ray’s programming language.

The 10-Blu-ray disc set includes 128 tracks, 43 unreleased recordings, three live concerts, the feature film Journey Through the Past, and a 236-page full-color hardcover book. The set is also available in DVD (24-bit/96kHz stereo PCM audio, 720×480 SD video) and in CD (16bit/44kHz stereo PCM audio). The album is scheduled to hit stores on June 2 nd, 2009. Pre-order price of Blu-ray is $299.99, standard DVD set is $199.99 and the CD set is $99.

BDA is the industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu-ray disc technology. The organization is responsible for establishing format standards and promoting business opportunities for Blu-ray development. Member companies include Apple, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Walt Disney and Warner Brothers.

More information about the Neil Young Archives is here.

Chicago Sun Times: SXSW 2009: Neil Young’s archives, finally here and absolutely amazing!

Rolling Stone: Neil Young’s “Archives Vol. 1″ Set for Release June 2nd 2009.

Barrx Medical National Sales Meeting 2009

Total Media Group Produces Barrx National Sales Meeting 2009. / February 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group (TMG) produced the Barrx Medical National Sales Meeting at Marco Island, FLA, in February, 2009.

TMG provided creative development and produced the meetings Opening Video, general session and breakout staging and closing candids presentation.

For Total Media Group, Chris Carleson was executive producer, Terry Lee program producer, and Kris Kunz video designer and editor.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals National Sales Meeting 2009

1st Year of Creative and Graphic Production of Jazz Pharmaceuticals National Sales Meeting. / February 2nd, 2009

Total Media Group was awarded production of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals National Sales Meeting, held in February, 2009, in La Jolla, Ca.

Total provided all creative direction, theme development, and graphics production, staging and scenic production.

The 4 day event included general sessions and an awards banquet.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals markets and sells drugs for the care of Social Phobic and Narcolepsy patients.

Salix Phamaceuticals’ Product Launch

Dramatic Video Presentation on Ultra-Wide Screen / February 1st, 2009

Total Media Group produced the product launch for Salix Pharmaceuticals new GI product “Apriso” at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona in February 2009.

The focal point of the event was the 80’ long by 15’ high multi-blend projection screen, which allowed to the ballroom set and atmosphere to be instantly transformed to suit any mood or media configuration.

At the opening night gala, attendees walked in to a room that featured a massive desert sunrise. The 3D animated time lapse slowly transitioned the scene from morning to night, culminating with a desert thunder and lightning storm. The massive screen and surround sound totally enveloped the audience in the storm.

Setting the tone for the them of the meeting, “The Salix Revolution”, the set was transformed into a post-modernist design of logo and design transitions to kick off the Opening Video, featuring roto-scoped executive testimonials keyed over the primary design background.

Over the course of the meeting, the set was transformed into more desert scenes, animated design-intensive backgrounds, a game night featuring video games projected onto the giant screen, and a 3D animated Taj Mahal panorama for the closing Awards Banquet, set to a theme of Bollywood.

Total Media Group produced and designed all aspects of the meeting, including the set technical and creative design, all videos, all meeting graphics, the keynote presentations, breakout sessions and our signature closing candids video, produced in the unique set screen ratio all onsite.

Producing for Total Media Group was Aldo Panattoni. Technical Director was Jay Koller. Screen design and animation by Steven Gregory. Candids Video was photographed by Shingo Kohara and edited onsite by Steve Miller.

Stryker Med-Surg National Sales Meeting 2009

15th Consecutive Year of Producing Stryker National Sales Meetings / January 2nd, 2009

For the 15^th straight year, Total Media Group produced the Stryker Med-Surg Groups series of National Sales Meetings in Scottsdale, AZ in January 2009.

The Stryker Med-Surg Group consists of 9 divisions of the multi-national Fortune 500 company, Stryker Corporation. Stryker is the largest medical device manufacturing and sales company in the world.

Total Media Group provided all creative development, theme development, graphic design, set and scenic design, staging for general sessions, awards banquets, breakouts and special events and all video production in advance of the meetings and onsite. Pre-production began in July 2008.

The meetings were produced at two simultaneous resort venues in Scottsdale from Jan 2-15, and consisted of over 30 general sessions, 45 daily breakout tracts,10 themed special events, 9 awards banquets in 7 consecutive nights, over 30 videos produced in advance and onsite and a major product launch for the Stryker Endoscopy division at a local Scottsdale nightclub, Axis-Radius.

Terry Lee and Chris Carleson were executive producers for Total Media Group, Design, pre-production and onsite video production were provided by Kris Kunz, Atticus Culver-Reese and Adam Strugeon. Jeff Casagrande acted as pre-production coordinator. Additional onsite editing, shooting and graphics production was executed by Steve Miller, Steve Navrat, Brian Cibula, Shingo Kohara, Joe Sciarraba, Eric Goodfield, Bruce Couch, Joy Knowlton, Jason Lane and Bruce Hood. Jay Koller and Paul Gunther were the Stage Managers/Technical Directors.

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