Big Foot Films stakes out another 48-hour film competition, this time with an environmental focus. Enjoy From the Heartland!
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Do you need a summer internship in finance, graphic design, marketing, video production or writing? Join us in Old Town Lansing!
Even a carefully scheduled event sometimes has an element outside your control run a few minutes late. How do you adjust – and use it to enhance the experience?
Enjoy this 4-minute video overviewing what experience design is.
An apocalypse-themed awards show is a unique event production challenge. But where else can you find breakdancing hazmat workers and Mayan zombie puppets?
When you're setting up projection for video input from a computer, one quick way to adjust the visuals is to set the desktop background as color bars.
The best news from the Mid-Michigan Addy Awards: Made in York, a video we produced for Harley-Davidson, won a Gold Addy & Best in Show: Broadcast.
7 Million Pounds, a video MessageMakers produced to promote donations to FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties (New Jersey), received a Silver Addy.
More great news from Addy-land: the PSA MessageMakers produced for the 2011 East Lansing Film Festival (ELFF) also won an Addy Award for its quality!
Thanks to all who were able to attend the MINGLE networking event at MessageMakers last night! Click through for details and photos from the event.
Team Tell Stories reminds us that there are worse things than being single on Valentine's Day with their ELFF 48/5 entry "Running from Romance."
Join MINGLE at MessageMakers on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6-9 pm for a free popcorn social & networking discussion!
As I responded to a last-minute request for proposals today, I was reminded how much I appreciate the Michigan Film Office's Production Directory.
MessageMakers recently produced an interactive training in Las Vegas for Harley Owners Group motorcycle rally planners from around the world. How did it go?
How you distribute your video is up to you...
Learn 7 ways to show appreciation to clients - to show that you appreciate them and the opportunity they provide to do great work.
After your video production shoots, it's time for post-production: reviewing, logging, capturing, and a short series of edits and approvals.
What does it take to tell a compelling story, a story that matters? Today's 2 story examples inspire laughter and tears.
What does it take to make a video production happen? What resources do you need on site at a shoot?
Once you know what you want from a video (the answers to the big questions), you can start making a plan to achieve your outcomes. That's pre-production.
Here are 5 tips for developing goals in 2012. Consider what you'd most like to accomplish - and create a plan to make sure your goals happen.
What does it take to develop a quality video? Start by answering these 4 BIG questions.
Check out the Experience Evaluation Tool. This new, FREE resource encapsulates how attendees see event energy levels throughout an experience.
Here are some brief highlights of what MessageMakers has accomplished as a company in 2011 (as represented on this blog).
Enjoy MessageMakers' 11 best learning design advice posts of 2011.
Which of these 2 musings on quality do you most agree with? How would you describe the concept?
Enjoy MessageMakers' 10 best event production advice posts of 2011.
Enjoy our great educational resource for folks interested in learning more about video production: So You Want to Make a Video. Click through to download!
Enjoy MessageMakers' 10 best business advice posts of 2011.
Old Town Dickens Village attendees (tomorrow afternoon): MessageMakers will be hosting the Great American Fierce Beard Organization!
“If an environment is to be the ideal setting for information, it should afford access to the information sources and centers so that we have the fullest, most all-around kind of knowledge. That means we need all sorts of devices for getting to the information, including presence. By presence I mean the actual relationship between two information centers: one person with another person.” — Paolo Soleri
Ask yourself these 9 questions in order to plan holiday parties that achieve your goals and keep things organized.
Oddly enough, even the TSA has learned that humor is a great tool for softening messages that could otherwise be considered harsh, critical, or impersonal—and encouraging change. It's a great part of experience design.
Enjoy this rundown of learning points from MSU's World Usability Day 2011 training event/celebration yesterday, focused on social media.
Looking for a winter internship in finance, graphic design, marketing, video production or writing/editing? Work at our headquarters in Old Town Lansing, Michigan!
Here are all the resources shared at our president's "Tips and Tricks to Help You Double Your Festival Fundraising, Sponsorships and Volunteers" talk this afternoon at Michigan Festivals and Events Association's 19th annual convention.
What can we learn about learning from science fiction? Here are 42 salient points.
Our event production team recently arrived home from producing a successful Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) training program in Sevilla, Spain.
In honor of Halloween, here are 10 thoughts on what we can learn about business from seasonal scary fare.
I had a good conversation with a fairly new colleague yesterday, wherein she mentioned that she really liked working where she was and hoped to continue on … but she knew that she was working a bit out of the track her education had set her in and understood that someone else more qualified might come along to do what she does.
I realized something important (even Seth Godin-esque) in that moment.
MessageMakers has just finished the PSA for the 14th Annual East Lansing Film Festival Nov. 9-17, 2011, partnering with Big Foot Films. Watch the video!
Congratulations to former intern Ryan Frederick on his team's 1st place in the Fall 2011 East Lansing Film Festival 48/5 Contest with their film “Le Velo.”
Our event production team recently wrapped a training event in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for Harley Owners Group. Check it out!
Do you know what your natural conflict-handling method is? Have you ever considered whether it's the best one for the job at hand?
These 16 tradeshow presence pointers will help you get the most from your trade show dollars and make your booth as engaging as possible.
The 3D music video we produced for The Hat Madder is now available on YouTube and has gotten a great review from the Lansing NOISE. Watch "Mayflies" now!
When you plan a learning experience, how do you plan to assess the outcomes of that experience? How do you know if it was effective?
Here are 10 questions we ask our video production clients to help them frame their expectations for a new video product.
Festival season, which started for me in early spring, just ended this week. This week I've had the job of debriefing the experiences and developing plans for improving things for next year.
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