Hamilton Medical Center Case Study: Video & Photo Library
We’re excited when hybrid (video and photography) shoots come up, but that does mean an added layer of coordination is needed. Having good collaborators like Lenz Marketing make producing fantastic footage and photos for a client like Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, GA pretty straightforward. Because of our specialty shooting in working medical facilities, we […]
Kamstrup Case Study Part 2: Photography Library
Client: Kamstrup North America As part of of the lead-up to opening their new North American Headquarters facility outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Mixed Bag Media (MBM) was engaged to produce a series of instructional videos that would help Kamstrup North America, a leader in water metering technology, provide top-tier service to staff, distributors and customers […]
Kamstrup Case Study Part 1: Training Videos
Client: Kamstrup North America Mixed Bag Media (MBM) partnered with Kamstrup North America to produce a series of training videos for their distributors, educating them in understanding the important features of their products and systems. The complexity of the material to be covered allowed MBM to utilize a range of video storytelling techniques, including spokespeople […]
Top 5 Pre-Production (Pre-pro) questions
Digital tools have become ubiquitous and easier than ever to use, but that doesn’t mean everyone with a smartphone is qualified to produce video or photo assets for businesses. When it comes to professional visual content that communicates clearly, and with strategic purpose, details matter. During the pre-production and planning process details are considered, examined […]
How we did it – Emory Healthcare APP animated video
When Emory Healthcare reached out to ask if we were interested in creating an original animated video to explain the importance of APPs (Advanced Practice Providers) as members of a patient’s care team, we wasted no time getting back in touch. Even though we usually work with real people in real places, we have some […]
Give Heart Cells A Beat Exhibit
We spend a lot of time in research labs, which is great fun, but we often don’t see the results of that work in the real world. When our friends at Gladstone Institutes called about producing a video for the Give Heart Cells A Beat exhibit at the Exploratorium, a San Francisco landmark, that changed. […]
Mapping Creativity
I’ve always loved maps. Anytime a book has a map I spend hours pouring over it, imagining the world that is represented from that idealized bird’s eye view, seeing relationships between places that enhance and deepen my understanding of the story being told. When I travel I always study maps of the place I’m visiting […]
The Georgia Tech Capstone Design Expo Was Different This Year…VERY Different
Mixed Bag Media has been producing promotional videos for Georgia Tech’s Capstone Design Expo for nearly a decade, and we’ve always loved the energy, excitement and enthusiasm of student teams coming together from across campus, new ideas in the air, and the promise of groundbreaking technology. This year Amit Jariwala, the Director of Design & […]
The Case of the Russian Book Trailer
When I first started at Mixed Bag Media I had just spent over 15 years in the world of animation and motion graphics (“Broadcast Design,” as it was known in the 90s and early 2000s). The world of documentary-style promo production was new to me, and while it was exciting to learn about a new […]
Earth Day at 50: Everything’s Different – Nothing’s Changed
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day I put together this short video, and it got me to thinking about the many differences between 1970 and today. In many ways things are better now – the tolerance for trash and other environmental degradation is so much lower than it was (I remember a […]
When The Sex Pistols Came to Town, Part 1: Atlanta
On January 5th 1978 the Sex Pistols played their first show in the US, in Atlanta. And on Jan 14th they played their last show at San Francisco, California’s Winterland Ballroom. It just so happens that the first and last shows of that brief and meteoric tour are the two locations of Mixed Bag Media, […]
The Mixed Bag Media Mind
Every morning around 9:00am I sit down at my computer and type something along the lines of “Howdy!” or “Morning!” into the standing Gchat window that connects me to a person living three time zones away. It’s not long before a reply pops up in my window, and with that the workday begins in earnest. […]