Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Romeo and Juliet

In 60 seconds. It went for too long. I was bored. Never liked Dickens. But the graphics are charming. > This is an entry in the McDonalds “bite-sized video project”; quite a lovely promotion if you ask Media Tonic. As you do when you want to know something about short-form video or the purchase of [...]

Less is more

Less is more. Less is more. Via Steve_Steve.

Cutting edge interactive media

A brilliant piece of interactive outdoor promotion for the show Vampire Diaries that engaged people on a powerful scale, as the video shows. The TV/movie industry is particularly good at this sort of thing but interactive outdoor can work just as well for a brand, a retailer or a public information campaign. Come on people; [...]

In the future, advertising is all outdoor

The digitisation of outdoor spaces is being driven by advertisers who collaborate with artists and digital agencies to create public art events. We’re watching the transition of outdoor as a medium from static posters to video storytelling with the potential for a creative campaign to generate enormous buzz locally and on the Internet. We have [...]

Singing your head off

The Grammy Awards promotion site, We’re All Fans is a pretty spectacular example of interactive web video. It’s sucking in YouTube videos in real time uploaded by fans of particular nominated artists. Mostly this is teen girls singing in their bedrooms – at least the seventy or so we looked at were. Gorgeous use of [...]

FREQUENCY CONTROL

In our last episode we revealed that Media Tonic is now selling on-line content in FOXSPORTS.com.au, Australia’s highest traffic web sports site. Actually, it’s 14 different MCN sites. I can now reveal to our fan base that we offer way sexy on-line video ads also. The EyeBlaster technology does browser-sniffing, intelligent loading and the video [...]

Gay quadruplets’ John Williams tribute

Not just a cappella, they are THE cappella. Source.

Chris Bliss

People’s expectations are pretty high these days when it comes to entertainment. Can you imagine giving a guy a standing ovation for juggling three standard juggling balls for 4 minutes? You don’t think you’d do that? Really? Amazing Juggling – Watch a funny movie here Thanks to Kevin Campbell for link.

The website is down (and not safe for work)

OK. That’s just doubled the click-throughs on the video. It’s also not safe for sales people or system administrators. There is a world-beating line in this video about the limitations of arranging your Windows desktop. I’m not going to ruin it for you.

You suck at Photoshob

It’s hard to create a great tutorial series on Photoshop when your wife is being unfaithful and your World of Warcraft buddy keeps calling you on Skype. The only thing that might get you through is holding your audience in contempt, eg. “this tutorial is basic to intermediate; so you’re probably going to find it [...]