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A silver and three bronze awards for the full-service video production house from London, Ontario.

London, Ontario; April 24, 2013 — Keyframe Communications has won a silver and three bronze awards in the 34^th annual Telly Awards honouring video excellence.

The communications company based in London, Ontario earned a silver award for EB Games and its Christmas commercial entitled The Dodgy Tree. Keyframe earned bronze awards for the Ontario Pork – BBQ TV commercial, the safety orientation video for the EllisDon and for the Middlesex-London Health Unit commercial entitled Quiz Show.

“To win one Telly Award is an honour, but we couldn’t be more proud to win four, especially in four different categories,” said Keyframe executive producer Bryan Peel.

The Telly Awards received nearly 11,000 entries from around the world. The Silver Telly is its highest honour.

A panel of over 500 accomplished industry professionals, each a past winner of a Silver Telly and a member of The Silver Telly Council, judged the competition. Each entry is scored on a 10-point scale by the judges. Fewer than 10 per cent score high enough to earn a Silver Telly. About a quarter of the entries had a high enough grade to earn a Bronze Telly.

“The Telly Awards has a mission to honour the very best in film and video,” said Linda Day, executive director of the Telly Awards. “Keyframe’s accomplishment illustrates their creativity, skill, and dedication to their craft and serves as a testament to great film and video production.”

“I am blessed to work with an amazing team at Keyframe,” Peel said. “I want to thank everyone for their hard work and amazing creative.”

With only 48 hours to produce from concept to completion, our team delivered a “Dodgy Tree” for EB Games. The spot was produced by Bryan Peel, written and directed by Randy Diplock, had David Suddaby at the DP helm, edited by Matt Winkler and with many more in between, the spot really came together. Our client was thrilled and the director of Brand Marketing called it a “wonderful spot”.

The ad is airing nationally in the days leading up to Christmas.

Credits:
Client: EB Games
Agency: ClearMedia.tv
Producer: Bryan Peel
Director & Writer: Randy Diplock
Director of Photography: David Suddaby
Data Management: Bob Burt
1st AC: Rafi Mishan
Gaffer: Steve Caswell
Swing: Sean Sullivan
Key Grip: Mark Skinner
Production Assistant: Jen Thiffault
Location Audio: Brent Robichaud
Hair/Make-up: Brittany Gray
Online Editor: Matt Winkler
Graphics: Yulia Kovaleva

On-camera Talent:
Sonia Berno
Darren Ross
Location: Monte-Brooks Studios

Location Co-ordinator & additional support – Amy Fudge

Filmed on the Arri Alexa
Post facilities: Keyframe Communications Inc.

http://www.keyframeinc.com/

“We needed a studio that had a cyc wall shooting space, is centrally located for our cast and crew and is client friendly. Pyman fit the bill,” said Bryan Peel, Keyframe’s Executive Producer.

“Pyman’s Jeff Burnett went above and beyond to accommodate our crew and all of our needs.”

About Pyman

Since 1983, Pyman has delivered corporate promotional, commercials, marketing/sales and training solutions to its clients. Today, Pyman Media is a full-service production house with studio rental facilities.

4060 A Sladeview Crescent, Unit 2,
 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada 
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(905) 828-7171 | Jeff Burnett jeff@pyman.com

About Keyframe

Keyframe Communications is a London-based, full-service production, marketing and advertising company. Our principled, customer-centred approach to integrated work processes helps our clients turn their goals and aspirations into concrete and successful realities that meet and exceed their expectations. This vision has helped us build positive relationships worldwide.

Keyframe Communications Inc.

285 King Street, Suite 202, London, Ontario, Canada  N6B 3M6

office: 519-434-9059  mobile: 519-630-3297  fax: 1-866-434-5628

bryan@keyframeinc.com | skype me: bryan-peel | keyframeinc.com

London, Ontario – May 17, 2012 – The Telly Awards has named Keyframe Communications Inc. as a Silver and double Bronze winner in the 33^rd Annual Telly Awards. With nearly 11,000 entries from all around the globe, this is truly and international honor.

Keyframe received a Silver Award in the Commercial category for its eye-catching Florida’s Natural Fruit Snacks television spot, along with two Bronze Awards for its series of Protecting Our Environment short videos in the Internet/Online Programs, Segments or Promotional Pieces Information and Education categories.

“The Telly Awards has a mission to honor the very best in film and video,” says Linda Day, Executive Director of the Telly Awards. “Keyframe’s accomplishment illustrates their creativity, skill, and dedication to their craft and serves as a testament to great film and video production.”

“We worked extremely hard this past year and I’m thankful to have an unmatched production and creative team onboard,” says Bryan Peel, Executive Producer for Keyframe Communications Inc. “We love what we do and are very proud of these awards.”

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NAB 2012 has wrapped up and it was cool to meet some of our new suppliers in person, chat with some long time ones and demo some new gear.

One main purpose of attending this year was to see what could possibly replace our FCP suites. I was really looking at some sort of FCX and Smoke integration, but was surprised to see that Autodesk has completely rebuilt Smoke and transformed it into a video editing and visual effects tool for the Mac.

I had a one-on-one demo on Tuesday and the artist showed off many of the traditional and new features of Smoke. While I was glad to see that they brought the powerful node-based compositing right onto the timeline, I was a bit disappointed watching the system crash several times while performing some very basic editing tasks. I’ll have to download the demo once it’s available in June and really test it out.

Still on the post side, I watched the Adobe Premiere 6 demo, ran through the Avid booth (meh) and avoided the temptation of Quantel.

To sum up the post side of things, I think that FCX as a basic editing tool will be hard to beat for quick turnaround projects. Remember, it isn’t being promoted as a compositing system – it’s editing software. Let’s be realistic. At the end of the day, it is the artist at the helm who makes the final product a winner.

The use of LTO in the post process is by far the best solution for project archival and LTO5 seems to be gaining popularity on the show floor.

Tiger Technology was there and Bernard demoed the new release of Metasan (sweeet).

New in version 5:

• Dynamic ProjectStore: Edit with Avid, Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro.
• Dashboard Management: Get a bird’s eye view of your SAN in real time.
• Remote SAN Monitoring: SANguard monitors the wellbeing of your SAN through remote diagnostics.
• Organic Scale-Out Storage Cluster: Store, expand, tier and migrate data with extreme ease.
• Access Control and User Authentication: Mac users can now authenticate against Active Directory.

Other general notes: Go Pro, Canon, AJA and Blackmagic seemed to really draw the crowds. It was cool to see everyone drooling over the C300 and C500 at Canon – and for good reason, too.

Blackmagic released a new Cinema Camera. I really don’t understand why they want to go down this road. While I am more interested on the post side of things, I did spend a few minutes watching the rep demo it at the Supermeet on Tuesday. Overall, I think it would be a decent camera for a fixed environment but not for any “run and gun” work. Plus, it seems to have the “jello” effect with movement.

Well, that’s a wrap for NAB 2012. Had a great stay at Aria and looking forward to NAB 2013 and another Vegas trip this fall.