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THE LATEST NEWS AND SAMPLES:

What about music videos?


Now editing for the winner of the most GRAMMY'S® ever: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This video's currently doing an around-the-clock performance on the cso.org web site.




Combined with Robert Lightfoot's beautiful black & white photography, this has become a favorite celebrating the 100th anniversary of Solti's birth. Produced by TrumpetMultimedia for The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The Media Circus has also just completed posting new videos for the orchestra's Dream Out Loud middle-school education program - you'll find more here.

Doing it all for Sarasota Bay Watch




It's hard to keep Sarasota Bay healthy, but it's easy for The Media Circus to turn their footage into this PSA - providing everything including script and voice-over all in one day. Whew! AND this "Who We Are" video, too!

Drops of Good



The votes are in! (You did vote, didn't you?) And Maxwell House Coffee drinkers helped award $50,000 in renovations to Atlanta's Adamsville Recreation Center through the Maxwell House Drops of Good campaign. (See how the name ties in with the "Good to the Last Drop" thing?) This is a fun piece celebrating the volunteers who helped their local community with their own drops of good (using dropcloths of good, I suppose). And you'll also see special guest star Julie Bowen from ABC's Modern Family, who taught us that Hollywood can do something helpful, too. Produced by Folding Pictures for Kraft Foods and Razorfish.

Serving


How Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas responded to the mass-casualty tragedy at nearby Fort Hood. Produced by Haufschild Associates.

Purple Power


Since I have a couple of Northwestern diplomas, I've gotten special enjoyment from this multi-year project for the Kellogg School of Management: creating videos from material shot around the world by Global Initiatives in Management students. Just like the trips, each video is markedly different. The goal is always to find the right balance in the video between education and tourism; the challenge is to do it with material from non-professionals. Enjoy a few - they're fun & they'll make you want to sign up for that MBA. Produced by The Media Circus for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.



Chicago Jesuit Academy


The story of a middle school on Chicago's West Side that's really making a difference for the people in that community. Produced by Freeman Pictures for Bean Productions with thanks to Kellogg's Snacks and Steve Donisch.

Yes He Did. (I helped a little)

New York Times write-up of Obama Ad


The New York Times did a write-up about one of the Obama spots I cut for AKPD Media at Mode Project. Watch it and read about it here.

Introducing the MMA Sport Federation


The MMA Sport Federation is a new mixed-martial arts association that promotes athleticism and sportsmanship through national teams and global competition. Produced by KMI Marketing.

Big. Really big.


Everything's big in Texas, especially the Scott & White Healthcare System and it takes a big video like this to describe all the ways Scott & White is making life better for the people of central Texas. Produced by Haufschild Associates.

Good to the last finalist.

Who says there's nothing worth voting for? One of the videos I cut for the Maxwell House Drops of Good campaign was a finalist in the prestigious Panasonic Shoot It Share It contest. If you can time travel, go back a few months, then register and vote for it here (and help the director/producer David Seman at Folding Pictures win some great Panasonic gear).

 

We Believe in Children



Cleveland Browns' QB (and former University of Texas star) Colt McCoy helps introduce viewers to the new Children's Hospital at Scott & White in Temple, TX. Produced by Haufschild Associates and One World Productions.

Motorola Financial Analyst Meeting Opener


Back when Motorola was riding high on the success of their RAZR phone, I created this meeting opener for them through Exclaim, Inc. It involved six video projectors - four projectors to create a seamless ultra-wide screen and two side-screen projectors. Obviously, the vast size of the screen doesn't really come across on your device, so this is a version that stacks the wide image four times vertically to try to recreate the power of the original. For best results (and if your computer can handle it) click the full-screen button below the movie and increase the video playback quality. And stick your face real close to the screen.

Winning…

For the last few years The Media Circus has been doing work through Haufschild Associates for Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas. We're happy to say that work has helped them win an award for Employee Communications Campaign of the Year from PR Week Magazine. Here are details about the award - http://goo.gl/YtJ7y.

Alter Group | Developer of the Year

They're one of the nation's top real estate developers, and this is their video to celebrate being named Developer of the Year (and in this economy, I think that means a lot!). With post assistance from Matt Lauterbach and Dizzy Giant.

Want to see more?

There's another whole page here. (Click on the word "here" - some people didn't get that.) And of course, there's a lot of great stuff that's not posted for various reasons – but if you call Scott Brewer at (312) 588-0000 you can get hooked up with links or DVDs for a lot more samples.