In planning the video series for the RedEye launch, the company wanted a fun video for the home page, as well as a more informative feature video for use elsewhere.

Here are links to the pages containing the two videos:

• “Duel” — from the ThinkFlood home page
• “Getting Started” — from the RedEye information page

At the Appalachian Mountain Club annual meeting tonight, a film produced by Diginovations will premiere, taking viewers inside the initiative and the remarkable progress made in just a few years. DigiNovations has also created several other short films highlighting important features of the project, such as the AMC’s outdoor educational programs and their traditional Maine sporting camps. These short film stories will be released over the coming months, and all of them will soon be available on AMC’s new internet TV channel (“AMC-TV”) at http://www.outdoors.org.

View the Appalachian Mountain Club film

GlobalPost has put together a team of 65 correspondents in 45 countries, who are reporting on the world’s most critical issues and timely events. The free website aims to attract viewers who have been unable to access as many foreign stories from U.S.-based newspapers and TV networks, as traditional media cuts expenses, including foreign bureaus, due to declining readers/viewers and advertising dollars.

GlobalPost, founded by veteran journalists Phil Balboni, the Founder of New England Cable News, and Charlie Sennot, a former Boston Globe foreign correspondent and bureau chief, hired Diginovations to show web viewers what they could expect to see. DigiNovations created a 6-minute video program that presented GlobalPost’s profound mission of educating Americans with international stories that are increasingly not being told.

View the GlobalPost launch video

The website presentation has used compelling video and pictures of global conflict, some shot by GlobalPost correspondents themselves, who are using pocket-sized digital cameras to supplement their story-telling. DigiNovations’ story introduced some of the news operation’s seasoned correspondents, highlighted the regions they would cover, and teased the site’s viewers with bits of stories they could expect to see. GlobalPosts’ reporter roster includes veterans of major news organizations such as CNN, The Washington Post, Time magazine and The Associated Press.

In one sense, the timing of the website launch and preview video appears perfect, amidst continued worries about the global economy, terrorism, Middle East bloodshed, and climate change. Video interviews with Balboni, Sennot, and two of the venture’s lead investors portrayed a new news source that aims to seek out stories that are of importance to every American. In the story, Sennot says “there’s never been a time in our nation’s history where you needed to understand the world more… these are issues that are all globally connected.”

But the launch of GlobalPost comes amid a slowdown in the online advertising, the source of more than half of the company’s projected revenue. Implementing a video to help promote the site and attract viewers was deemed a smart investment. DigiNovations’ Senior Producer Mont Fennel, lead producer for the web video, says “It was challenging to put together the visuals for a 6-minute- long story whose product, a website, had not even taken shape, but with creativity we made it work, and GlobalPost tells us it was very pleased with the results.”

GlobalPost also showcased DigiNovations’ story at the company’s launch party in October.

DigiNovations created a “video practice case” for Bain’s recruiting website.Bain and Company was a big winner of the night, taking down awards for Best Corporate Training and Support site and for Best User Experience for their microsite, JoinBain.com.  During the development of the site, DigiNovations worked with interactive design firm Sapient to develop a simulation of a Bain job interview, complete with a “video practice case” to be “cracked” by the interviewee.  It’s a great way for prospective job applicants to see what a case-centered interview is all about, and to try their hand at one before entering the pressure-cooker of an actual interview.

The DigiNovations-produced film, “Inside the Case Method”, is embedded in the MBA website’s bannerHarvard Business School’s new MBA admissions site won the best site award for an Educational Institution.  Designed by iFactory, one of the centerpieces of the new admissions site is a film created by DigiNovations called “Inside the Case Method” — an intimate, unusual look at what goes into the teaching method that HBS has taken to a whole new level.  (For more on the development and presentation of this film on the web, click through to “Harvard Business School and the New Art of Web Video Staging,” posted earlier this month on DigiNovations’ Web Video Expert blog.

Video plays from the Revels front page, and invites the viewer to click for moreThe performing arts organization, Revels, won the top award for not-for-profit and government organization websites.  Featured prominently on the redesigned Revels front page is a video program entitled “This is Revels”, produced by DigiNovations for the organization.  Click on “More Videos” and you’ll see an internet TV player designed and implemented by DigiNovations.  It contains many video programs created by DigiNovations over the years.  We’ve been videotaping Christmas and Midsummer Revels performances for more than ten years.

 Twitter is just one of the many companies whose DigiNovations-produced snapshots are featured on the Charles River Ventures home pageCharles River Ventures won the fifth award in the Financial Services category.  One of the most prominent features on the CRV home page is a series of video profiles of young companies in the Charles River Ventures portfolio — including some that are just now becoming household names, like Twitter.  These video profiles were produced on a modest budget and on a tight deadline for last Fall’s limited partner meeting at CRV.

Keith Lockhart is one the people we interviewed for this video case study for PermissionTVFinally, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention one of our clients who was a Finalist.  PermissionTV was selected as a finalist in the Professional Services category.  During the past year, DigiNovations has created several video case studies for PermissionTV, going beyond client testimonials and into storytelling about how PermissionTV came up with a unique solution to their client’s needs.  One such story was about the implementation of the Boston Pops Orchestra’s video website.

The film takes viewers behind the scenes for a hectic, sometimes touching portrait of Romney and two of his sons as they campaign across Iowa in the final days before the August, 2007 Iowa Straw Poll.

The producer of the film was Michael Kolowich, who also was the principal editor; associate producer was Jillayne Smyth.  Videographers were Bill Charette, Larry LeCain, Rob Hennings, and Michael Kolowich.

In addition to the documentary, the team produced a sixty-second trailer that was distributed on YouTube and other internet video sites to attract viewers to the release of the film 4 days before the Straw Poll.

Mont Fennel

Mont Fennel is a four-time Emmy award-winner and a 16-year veteran at New England Cable News (NECN). His nightly business reporting on the nation’s largest 24-hour regional news channel reached 3.7 million subscribers in more than 1,050 cities and towns across all six New England states. Fennel’s reporting won four Emmy awards for NECN, and was nominated 17 additional times. “Mont Fennel is an NECN pioneer,” said NECN News Director Thomas R. Melville. “He was on our air on Day One - March 2, 1992 - and he has been there ever since as the only full-time business reporter on television in New England. He is a masterful producer of television news reports. As a master, he has used the medium to bring complex business topics to the small screen in creative and interesting ways. He is a great storyteller.”

Fennel joins the staff of one of the fastest-growing creative video production firms in New England. As a leader in the field of web video and internet TV, DigiNovations lately has seen client interest explode in the area of internet video production. “Internet video demands a blend of new skills and attitudes with well-established disciplines,” said DigiNovations executive producer Michael Kolowich. “What appealed to me about Mont is his instinctive eye toward finding the core of the story and then using the medium to bring that story alive. I believe he’ll flourish in the new medium of internet video, just as he’s done in traditional broadcast journalism.”

“We will miss him — in our newsroom and on our air,” noted NECN’s Melville. “I predict a very bright future for Mont as he brings his vast set of skills to his new position with DigiNovations.”

Fennel also served as Boston correspondent for the Nightly Business Report on public television.