These are my first comments ever in this blog and I'm nervous I'll say the wrong thing...BLLBLBLBLBLBLB...that was not so bad...here's my crack at CANDID....BOO!
Greg Hyder, the Director of Catering at the Peninsula introduced us to his employment manager Joanna Perez regarding their staff holiday party. Delighted, we met with Joanna and made up with a plan. She was concerned that the party might ignore her more shy employees and that it was important to celebrate everyone because everyone had worked really hard all year. They wanted a DJ to play a bunch of different music and we came up with adding a photographer and a videographer to the mix so that we could get all of their cute faces up ion the big screen. So that's what we did... we played a ton of funky music, took lots of wacky pictures and shot video form the edges all crazy and out and out. We put the visuals on the screen. Pretty simple stuff but everyone loved seeing themselves huge and in color. They got a little crazy dancing and hoppng around... I hope they have us back next year.
Fig Media has participated in the Adler Planetarium/Food for Thought open house since 2001. Each year we increase our level of involvement; currently, we co-produce the entire event. The goal is always to outdo the last year by innovating new event concepts and services. Fig loves this opportunity to experiment creatively, to master our event skills, and to train our Fig team. This year was no different as we set out to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the planetarium for the 2006 open house. Also known as the diamond anniversary, this party’s thematic direction quickly evolved into rock n’ roll (diamond = rock = rock n’ roll). Thus, the open house became “Rock the Adler” and it embodied all the glitz and glam of the rock n’ roll lifestyle. We had flashy cars, sexy DJs, big sound systems, photo ops, guitar solos, dance frenzies, booze, music videos, spotlights, and everything else a rock n’ roll star needs!
ECC Youth Arts Program Video Class by Lauren Pollock
This session the Video Class is learning how to make an infomercial. My co-teacher, Eric Anderson, and I taught about the different types of selling tactics and showed them several examples of infomercials, which they deemed boring. So we challenged them to first create their own product, and then create a commercial about their product that was fun and exciting and would entice their audiences to buy it. The class came up with some great ideas, and since most of them are big hams on camera, the videos are turning out great, too! Our students’ camera work has really improved and so has their ability to work in teams. I am continually learning and growing from my experiences with these young people. I’m learning patience; understanding and how valuable the ECC Youth Arts Program is to the students and their families.
If you want to see what the Video Class came up with, you’ll have to come check out our open house from 5-8pm on Friday, April 21st, at the North Lakeside Cultural Center! More details to come.
SPIN KIDS: CHILDREN WHO LEARN HOW TO DEEJAY Written by Brent Rolland, Instructor/Coordinator of the �Learn to Be a Deejay� Class for the YAP; Apprentice Deejay at Fig Media, Inc. There is a timeless quote that proclaims, �Children should be seen; not heard.� In the �Learn to Be a Deejay� class of ECC�s Youth Arts Program, that saying is proudly dismissed. Every week, I am joined by Fig Media resident deejays Gia Larrazabal and Lucy Wieczorek to teach seven-to-15 year-olds about one of the most exciting professions in the entertainment industry. Our general concept: Deejaying is more than popping in discs and going �wracka-wracka-wracka� on the tables�it is an artform that requires taste, discipline, knowledge and instinct�not to mention fun. Through the exposure of diverse musical genres and the utilization of professional deejay gear, our students have experienced music in a joyful new perspective. It is an added bonus that I am learning along with the kids and seeing them use class as their musical playground. The latest semester of the after-school course has focused on performance skills, presenting the idea of the event deejay: one that attempts to make people dance. That is exactly what the children of this course will be doing at YAP�s upcoming Art Show/Fundraiser on April 19th, as select students will perform their own five-minute sets for an all-out dance party at the end of the evening. It is a hope that everyone brings their good spirits and dancing shoes to the show, for we have future spinners that will be seen�and definitely heard.
ECC YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS by Tim Musho My name is Tim Musho and I am the photography teacher. Overall, I am teaching the kids camera techniques and showcasing their views through the lens. Some of the basic camera techniques that I am teaching them are composition, rule of thirds, finding detail in a picture, and shooting a portrait. I have the kids split up into two classes (younger and older). This session the younger kids are learning about the basic camera techniques through a variety of activities that use a technique or two. The older kids went deeper into their camera skills. Their final project is a stop motion movie that they wrote, directed and shot. I know that these kids are getting a ton out of my class and I can say the same. Just from the pictures that they have taken I can tell they are growing. This also transfers to my work with all the creativity that the kids produce. The whole reason I teach is to give back what teachers have given to me, my love for the arts.
ECC YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM TAE KWON DO CLASS by Tobey Geise I teach Taekwondo at the ECC Youth Arts Program. I have two classes, a beginner's class (ages 6-11) and the "advanced" class (ages 11-12) who took my class the last session. In the beginner's class, the main goal is to teach the kids how to break a board for the open house. They also learn the common respectful courtesies such as bowing and addressing me as "Ma'am" and "Yes Ma'am". They learn how to count in Korean, the basic stances, and punches. We also focus on the board-breaking kick, step-back-side kick. They don't actually get to break a wooden board until the night of the open house. In class we practice on a pad and a plastic re-breakable board. In the "advanced" class, I teach them the basic Poomsae, or forms. We work on more advanced kicks, like jump front kick and combination kicks. I really give these kids a dynamic workout with the knowledge they now have. At the open house they will be performing a form and breaking boards. To add a challenge, they will be breaking two boards thick this time!
There is no "I" in Documentary...there is no "me" in team...oh wait, yeah there is!" Sacred heart Documentary Class
Every friday afternoon in a classroom that overlooks the lake, FIg Media participates in a unique program offered to the seventh and eight grade class at the Sacred Heart School, in Edgewater. The students participate in a qo week course on documentary film, taught by FIg Documentary Artists, James Gustin, Melissa Martens, and Lauren Pollock. The course covers styles of documentary, interviewing skills, awareness of the emotional states of a subject, and how to get the most out of an interview. The students spent a few weeks practicing thier interview skills on eachother, pushing levels of truth in thier friendships and holding a standard for a good interview. They then were sent out into the school to create a documentary...the main subject surrounding the production of the school play. And while they sought to create a documentary about the play, what they ended up doing was creating a documentary about themseleves, as students, artists, filmmakers friends, and individuals. This class is unlike any other! "You will wish you had signed up!" (Seamus Doheny) The films will be screened at the Sacred Hearts Tech Fair, this May. Along with the films from the last semester. Information TBA.
Because we have provided DeeJays for a few recent events at the the Four Seasons, Jamie Breslin, the director of Catering invited us to do their staff party, it was a Seventies theme. Lots of pimps, platforms and funk! We did the standard DJ thing and played a textures of funk , soul and disco, Swank provided 4 projection screens and projectors where we projected digital photos, 4 live video feeds and old movies. Camera men zoomed in really tight and wired images right to the screen, people didn't have to rubberneck to see their neighbor. We did awards and dance contests and staff got bendy. There was more than enough exotic food and we wallowed in the dessert buffet. With all the digital photos we made an Apple picture book and shared five with human resources. At the end of the night guests were doing crazy stuff like dancing in front of the projector lights and making shadows on the big screens. It was cool, but we don't get out much. We're hoping they call us next year, we've got a few more ideas to develop.
"It doesn't build itself, it just seems that way" Torque-USG
Fig Media is currently partnering with Torque, a unique marketing company in Chicago that utilizes "tribal" marketing tactics. (its actually quite facinating, check out what it means at: http://www.torquelaunch.com/aboutus.html.)
Currently Torque and FIg Media have been working with USG on promoting a new product that can change the way housing is built. USG has revolutionized the use of light gauge steel framing, and has applied it to building houses. These pre-fabricated houses can be framed up in eight hours! (psst....thats almost 10 times faster then traditional methods) Fig has created time lapse videos aided with graphics for presentaions and also to send out as DVD's to help promote the use of these houses where they are needed most; Louisiana. and then on throughout the United States. The "rethink, rebuild, recover" campaign with USG's new steel frame housing is well on its way and will revolutionize the recovery efforts as well as change the way we think about building homes today.
Eric Masi at Torque likes the way that we run our business and invited us to photograph a project down in Baton Gouge. I lived in Houston long enough to appreciate the winter in the South and dived at the opportunity. The project was to video time-lapse the build of a housing structure and then photograph the building in the various stages of completion. Eric has a great eye and shortly into it I realized that part of doing the jo well was to get Eric thinking and shooting his own pictures. This turned out to be agreat stretegy, because when Eric is having fun everybody is having fun. We were in the Carpenters union and delighted to have access to running water. Baton Rouge is very near New Orleans and the feelings were still strong after the Hurricane. I felt sad. Pictures turned out great and from the work we learned a ton about plannning complex jobs. We were delighted. We shot around two thousand photos. Eric took all of them, e must like our photos too.
Fig invited Debi Lilly and Hope Gwaltney of A Perfect Event to our Adler Open House 2005 and they were excited about the ideas we presented and invited us to create aproposal for a fashion kickoff opening for a local magazine. They liked our work and we joined the production team. We were delighted to be working closely with Debi, Hope and their client. It was a challenging night full of fashion, VIPs and great food. We provided:
technical direction: vision, consulting, planning and excecution in relationship with client and end user
communication: set-up and operation of wireless Clearcom communication
sound technicians: large soundsystem music playback and mixing in relationship to fashion coordinaor, Ford miodels, and VIP guests.
graphics: logo agogo, playback in relationship with fashion coordinator and Ford models
theatrical spots: rental and operation of theatrical follow spotlights for Vaudeville effect
video projection: installation and operation of projector and screening materials for sponsor logos
I met Michael Workman a couple years ago, Bridge was a sponsor on the Around the Coyote film and Video Festival and ended up contributing some great work. Fig joined the Bridge community and helped to produce the annual fundraiser at the new Zhou Brothers art space and then we programmed last years NOVA show over in the west loop. This year we are delighted to be part of the team once again doing tons of stuff: steadi cam virtual tour of the hotel, the media center, VIP services and general good will. The Brigdge/NOVA partnership is a wonderful synergy of events and art. Come join us at NOVA in the last weekend of April. Art, Deejays Fashion and RedBull!
Fig makes hip video for Museum of Science and Industry sales team! By Lauren Pollock
Last Fall, Randi of Sodexho came to Fig with a check and said make me a video! Well I'm sure it didn't go exactly like that, but she expressed a need to show the dimensions of MSI's event spaces. Photos did not do the spaces justice, so we decided to create a virtual tour. Carl Weidemann filmed the Rotunda, U-505 Submarine room, and the Henry Crown Space Center with Steady-cam. Watching him work was amazing, that camera not only takes skill to operate, but physical strength and stamina! He had myself, James Gustin, and Randi walk through the space as he filmed to show the scale of each room. The final edit is really a hip piece that shows off the event space with some fabulous fluid shots and great original scores by our very own Figgies Billy Rood and Tim Musho!
Executive Producers- James Gustin Producer/Editor- Lauren Pollock Steadi-Cam- Carl Weidemann Original Compositions- Billy Rood and Tim Musho
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These are my first comments ever in this blog and I'm nervous I'll say the wrong thing...BLLBLBLBLBLBLB...that was not so bad...here's my crack at CANDID....BOO!
4:03 PM
Greg Hyder, the Director of Catering at the Peninsula introduced us to his employment manager Joanna Perez regarding their staff holiday party. Delighted, we met with Joanna and made up with a plan. She was concerned that the party might ignore her more shy employees and that it was important to celebrate everyone because everyone had worked really hard all year. They wanted a DJ to play a bunch of different music and we came up with adding a photographer and a videographer to the mix so that we could get all of their cute faces up ion the big screen. So that's what we did... we played a ton of funky music, took lots of wacky pictures and shot video form the edges all crazy and out and out. We put the visuals on the screen. Pretty simple stuff but everyone loved seeing themselves huge and in color. They got a little crazy dancing and hoppng around... I hope they have us back next year.
6:44 PM
Fig Media has participated in the Adler Planetarium/Food for Thought open house since 2001. Each year we increase our level of involvement; currently, we co-produce the entire event. The goal is always to outdo the last year by innovating new event concepts and services. Fig loves this opportunity to experiment creatively, to master our event skills, and to train our Fig team. This year was no different as we set out to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the planetarium for the 2006 open house. Also known as the diamond anniversary, this party’s thematic direction quickly evolved into rock n’ roll (diamond = rock = rock n’ roll). Thus, the open house became “Rock the Adler” and it embodied all the glitz and glam of the rock n’ roll lifestyle. We had flashy cars, sexy DJs, big sound systems, photo ops, guitar solos, dance frenzies, booze, music videos, spotlights, and everything else a rock n’ roll star needs!
7:37 AM
ECC Youth Arts Program Video Class by Lauren Pollock
This session the Video Class is learning how to make an infomercial.
My co-teacher, Eric Anderson, and I taught about the different types of selling tactics and showed them several examples of infomercials, which they deemed boring.
So we challenged them to first create their own product, and then create a commercial about their product that was fun and exciting and would entice their audiences to buy it.
The class came up with some great ideas, and since most of them are big hams on camera, the videos are turning out great, too!
Our students’ camera work has really improved and so has their ability to work in teams. I am continually learning and growing from my experiences with these young people. I’m learning patience; understanding and how valuable the ECC Youth Arts Program is to the students and their families.
If you want to see what the Video Class came up with, you’ll have to come check out our open house from 5-8pm on Friday, April 21st, at the North Lakeside Cultural Center! More details to come.
3:44 PM
SPIN KIDS: CHILDREN WHO LEARN HOW TO DEEJAY
Written by Brent Rolland, Instructor/Coordinator of the �Learn to Be a Deejay� Class for the YAP; Apprentice Deejay at Fig Media, Inc.
There is a timeless quote that proclaims, �Children should be seen; not heard.� In the �Learn to Be a Deejay� class of ECC�s Youth Arts Program, that saying is proudly dismissed. Every week, I am joined by Fig Media resident deejays Gia Larrazabal and Lucy Wieczorek to teach seven-to-15 year-olds about one of the most exciting professions in the entertainment industry. Our general concept: Deejaying is more than popping in discs and going �wracka-wracka-wracka� on the tables�it is an artform that requires taste, discipline, knowledge and instinct�not to mention fun. Through the exposure of diverse musical genres and the utilization of professional deejay gear, our students have experienced music in a joyful new perspective. It is an added bonus that I am learning along with the kids and seeing them use class as their musical playground.
The latest semester of the after-school course has focused on performance skills, presenting the idea of the event deejay: one that attempts to make people dance. That is exactly what the children of this course will be doing at YAP�s upcoming Art Show/Fundraiser on April 19th, as select students will perform their own five-minute sets for an all-out dance party at the end of the evening. It is a hope that everyone brings their good spirits and dancing shoes to the show, for we have future spinners that will be seen�and definitely heard.
10:30 PM
ECC YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS
by Tim Musho
My name is Tim Musho and I am the photography teacher. Overall, I am teaching the kids camera techniques and showcasing their views through the lens. Some of the basic camera techniques that I am teaching them are composition, rule of thirds, finding detail in a picture, and shooting a portrait. I have the kids split up into two classes (younger and older). This session the younger kids are learning about the basic camera techniques through a variety of activities that use a technique or two. The older kids went deeper into their camera skills. Their final project is a stop motion movie that they wrote, directed and shot. I know that these kids are getting a ton out of my class and I can say the same. Just from the pictures that they have taken I can tell they are growing. This also transfers to my work with all the creativity that the kids produce. The whole reason I teach is to give back what teachers have given to me, my love for the arts.
8:40 PM
ECC YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM TAE KWON DO CLASS
by Tobey Geise
I teach Taekwondo at the ECC Youth Arts Program. I have two classes, a beginner's class (ages 6-11) and the "advanced" class (ages 11-12) who took my class the last session. In the beginner's class, the main goal is to teach the kids how to break a board for the open house. They also learn the
common respectful courtesies such as bowing and addressing me as "Ma'am" and "Yes Ma'am". They learn how to count in
Korean, the basic stances, and punches. We also focus on the board-breaking kick, step-back-side kick. They don't actually get to break a wooden board until the night of the open house. In class we practice on a pad and a plastic re-breakable board. In the "advanced" class, I teach them the basic Poomsae, or forms. We work on more advanced kicks, like jump front kick and combination kicks. I really give these kids a dynamic workout with the knowledge they now have. At the open house they will be performing a form and breaking boards. To add a challenge, they will be breaking two boards thick this time!
8:44 PM
There is no "I" in Documentary...there is no "me" in team...oh wait, yeah there is!"
Sacred heart Documentary Class
Every friday afternoon in a classroom that overlooks the lake, FIg Media participates in a unique program offered to the seventh and eight grade class at the Sacred Heart School, in Edgewater.
The students participate in a qo week course on documentary film, taught by FIg Documentary Artists, James Gustin, Melissa Martens, and Lauren Pollock. The course covers styles of documentary, interviewing skills, awareness of the emotional states of a subject, and how to get the most out of an interview.
The students spent a few weeks practicing thier interview skills on eachother, pushing levels of truth in thier friendships and holding a standard for a good interview. They then were sent out into the school to create a documentary...the main subject surrounding the production of the school play. And while they sought to create a documentary about the play, what they ended up doing was creating a documentary about themseleves, as students, artists, filmmakers friends, and individuals.
This class is unlike any other! "You will wish you had signed up!" (Seamus Doheny)
The films will be screened at the Sacred Hearts Tech Fair, this May. Along with the films from the last semester. Information TBA.
9:49 PM
Because we have provided DeeJays for a few recent events at the the Four Seasons, Jamie Breslin, the director of Catering invited us to do their staff party, it was a Seventies theme. Lots of pimps, platforms and funk! We did the standard DJ thing and played a textures of funk , soul and disco, Swank provided 4 projection screens and projectors where we projected digital photos, 4 live video feeds and old movies. Camera men zoomed in really tight and wired images right to the screen, people didn't have to rubberneck to see their neighbor. We did awards and dance contests and staff got bendy. There was more than enough exotic food and we wallowed in the dessert buffet. With all the digital photos we made an Apple picture book and shared five with human resources. At the end of the night guests were doing crazy stuff like dancing in front of the projector lights and making shadows on the big screens. It was cool, but we don't get out much. We're hoping they call us next year, we've got a few more ideas to develop.
9:58 PM
"It doesn't build itself, it just seems that way"
Torque-USG
Fig Media is currently partnering with Torque, a unique marketing company in Chicago that utilizes "tribal" marketing tactics. (its actually quite facinating, check out what it means at: http://www.torquelaunch.com/aboutus.html.)
Currently Torque and FIg Media have been working with USG on promoting a new product that can change the way housing is built.
USG has revolutionized the use of light gauge steel framing, and has applied it to building houses. These pre-fabricated houses can be framed up in eight hours! (psst....thats almost 10 times faster then traditional methods)
Fig has created time lapse videos aided with graphics for presentaions and also to send out as DVD's to help promote the use of these houses where they are needed most; Louisiana. and then on throughout the United States.
The "rethink, rebuild, recover" campaign with USG's new steel frame housing is well on its way and will revolutionize the recovery efforts as well as change the way we think about building homes today.
10:01 PM
Eric Masi at Torque likes the way that we run our business and invited us to photograph a project down in Baton Gouge. I lived in Houston long enough to appreciate the winter in the South and dived at the opportunity. The project was to video time-lapse the build of a housing structure and then photograph the building in the various stages of completion. Eric has a great eye and shortly into it I realized that part of doing the jo well was to get Eric thinking and shooting his own pictures. This turned out to be agreat stretegy, because when Eric is having fun everybody is having fun. We were in the Carpenters union and delighted to have access to running water. Baton Rouge is very near New Orleans and the feelings were still strong after the Hurricane. I felt sad. Pictures turned out great and from the work we learned a ton about plannning complex jobs. We were delighted. We shot around two thousand photos. Eric took all of them, e must like our photos too.
10:13 PM
Fig invited Debi Lilly and Hope Gwaltney of A Perfect Event to our Adler Open House 2005 and they were excited about the ideas we presented and invited us to create aproposal for a fashion kickoff opening for a local magazine. They liked our work and we joined the production team. We were delighted to be working closely with Debi, Hope and their client. It was a challenging night full of fashion, VIPs and great food.
We provided:
technical direction: vision, consulting, planning and excecution in relationship with client and end user
communication: set-up and operation of wireless Clearcom communication
sound technicians: large soundsystem music playback and mixing in relationship to fashion coordinaor, Ford miodels, and VIP guests.
graphics: logo agogo, playback in relationship with fashion coordinator and Ford models
theatrical spots: rental and operation of theatrical follow spotlights for Vaudeville effect
video projection: installation and operation of projector and screening materials for sponsor logos
3:17 PM
I met Michael Workman a couple years ago, Bridge was a sponsor on the Around the Coyote film and Video Festival and ended up contributing some great work. Fig joined the Bridge community and helped to produce the annual fundraiser at the new Zhou Brothers art space and then we programmed last years NOVA show over in the west loop. This year we are delighted to be part of the team once again doing tons of stuff: steadi cam virtual tour of the hotel, the media center, VIP services and general good will. The Brigdge/NOVA partnership is a wonderful synergy of events and art. Come join us at NOVA in the last weekend of April. Art, Deejays Fashion and RedBull!
9:58 AM
Fig makes hip video for Museum of Science and Industry sales team! By Lauren Pollock
Last Fall, Randi of Sodexho came to Fig with a check and said make me a video! Well I'm sure it didn't go exactly like that, but she expressed a need to show the dimensions of MSI's event spaces. Photos did not do the spaces justice, so we decided to create a virtual tour. Carl Weidemann filmed the Rotunda, U-505 Submarine room, and the Henry Crown Space Center with Steady-cam. Watching him work was amazing, that camera not only takes skill to operate, but physical strength and stamina!
He had myself, James Gustin, and Randi walk through the space as he filmed to show the scale of each room.
The final edit is really a hip piece that shows off the event space with some fabulous fluid shots and great original scores by our very own Figgies Billy Rood and Tim Musho!
Executive Producers- James Gustin
Producer/Editor- Lauren Pollock
Steadi-Cam- Carl Weidemann
Original Compositions- Billy Rood and Tim Musho
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