Spring 2007 New Media Projects Report

Celestial Media, a new media production and consulting company headed by Roberto Mighty, produces turnkey Television and New Media Packages for corporate, nonprofit, government, retail and NGO entities. Reach, inform, educate, train, sell to, recruit and influence your audience on the web, in their cars, on their iPods, over their cell phones and on TV with our multimedia productions.  

This season's projects are in use in Japan, Canada and across the USA. They include Grey's Anatomy's Kate Burton; Coronary Angioplasty via Boston Scientific; An exciting new mystery from HarperCollins; a public health conference from McGill and Harvard Universities; an evening of advocacy by Harvard Law School; Roberto's new reality television series and home DVD's from an award-winning Jazz Saxophonist. Read on.

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1. Boston Scientific: Collective Intelligence and Less Invasive Surgery DVD's. Celestial filmed John Abele, Boston Scientific Founding Chairman, giving a remote interview for Group Systems' "Expediting Innovation 2007," a conference dedicated to making 'collective intelligence' a reality in commercial, governmental and nonprofit organizations.

Using a simple telephone connection, Celestial Producer Roberto Mighty and Camera Operator Christopher Mehl (left) digitally videotaped Mr. Abele in Massachusetts as he was interviewed in real time from Colorado by Luis Solis, Group Systems CEO.

Subsequently, the digital video, together with scanned images and PowerPoint slides, was remotely edited by Mr. Abele (in Vermont) and Roberto (at the Celestial Studio in Massachusetts) using digital downloads and CD-ROM's. The master program was ported to DVD and CD-ROM using MPEG-2, Quicktime and Windows Media Player compression for universal playback compatibility and final delivery.

In a separate session, Mr. Abele was also filmed making a dedication for the Kinki University School of Medicine on the history of Boston Scientific's early innovations with PCTA (Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty.) This speech, also filmed in Massachusetts, was edited and conformed at the Celestial Studio for multiple platform delivery and playback in Japan. VIDEOCLIP: WINDOWS MEDIA | QUICKTIME
2) Consultant's Corner -- Why You Must Get Your Video On YouTube. Curious as to how to get your company, organization or cause represented on YouTube, Google and MySpace? Intrigued by the billions of dollars being spent on online video social networking? Still believe that web social networking is only for teenagers? Contact Celestial for a custom analysis and consultation on these and other critical online video communications issues. Roberto Mighty, Founder and New Media Consultant (left)
3) McGill University & Harvard Universities: Science Press Online Videos. Celestial Media was retained to videotape and produce a series of online videos for science journalists on the "Milk, Hormones and Human Health" conference this Fall.

Controversies surrounding milk consumption and health were highlighted in this unique three-day conference, held at the Harvard Club in Boston, Massachusetts.  

The multidisciplinary event brought together dairy scientists, epidemiologists, analytic chemists, geneticists, physicians, and physiologists in an effort to integrate the evidence underlying claims of health benefits or health risks associated with milk consumption. (Left -- Dr. Walter Willet, HSPH)

Proceedings of the workshop, organized by the McGill University Cancer Prevention Centre and the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, will be published.  For more information, please go to www.milksymposium.org. VIDEOCLIP: WINDOWS MEDIA | QUICKTIME
4) HarperCollins: Grey's Anatomy's Kate Burton, Boston University's Professor Stephen Prothero. Audiobooks: Harper Audio Executive Producer Rick Harris retained Roberto to direct Actor Kate Burton ("Ellis Grey" on ABC TV and "Madame Ranevskaya" in The Huntington Theatre Company's Production of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard") in a three-day reading of Lisa Scottoline's "Daddy's Girl," a psychological crime thriller involving a law school professor turned amateur detective. Roberto also directed the Audio Edition of Dr. Stephen Prothero's controversial book, "Religious Literacy." Studio: SoundScape. Engineer; Justin Zullo. VIDEOCLIP: WINDOWS MEDIA | QUICKTIME
5) Walter Beasley Performance Workshop: DVD/YouTube Clips/Digital Download. Celestial Media filmed a jazz performance/lecture at the Berklee College of Music by award-winning saxophonist and Professor Walter Beasley and his four-piece jazz ensemble. This project, the second major collaboration between Walter Beasley and Celestial Media, involved shooting and repurposing the original concert footage for multi-platform New Media delivery, including animated graphics, music editing, video editing, compression and formatting for home DVD; E-commerce Digital Download; and YouTube marketing clips. In addition, Telarc Records' Heads Up International label hired Celestial to film Beasley performance clips on the Celestial Soundstage for Beasley's electronic presskit. Walter Beasley's Performance Workshop is currently available at www.walterbeasley.com, along with "Walter Beasley's Circular Breathing," the first program produced for him by Celestial Media. VIDEOCLIP: WINDOWS MEDIA | QUICKTIME
6) Can This House Be Sold!? - Reality Television Series. Foreclosures and the Housing sales slump are reaching record-breaking proportions. "Can This House Be Sold!?," a new reality television series and world wide web site by Roberto Mighty Productions, is currently gearing up for a planned Fall 13-episode premiere. This exciting new series includes elements of humor, pathos, competition and gamesmanship. For sponsorship placement information, contact the Celestial office.
7) Harvard Law School: Advocacy Video. Communications Consultant Bev Freeman recommended Celestial Media to Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Professor Nesson hosted "Jamaica Night: Reform in the Spirit of Marcus Garvey - Inmate Driven Rehabilitation Through Music," at the Episcopal Divinity School. Celestial made a digital video recording of the speakers, musical entertainment and discussions for later use in an online video project.
FIND OUT MORE: Celestial Media teams stand ready to —
- discuss your needs;
- recommend which solutions are right for your organization;
- choose a combination of New Media solutions that will work for you;
- produce your New Media solutions;
- evaluate your results, using off-the-shelf metric tools.

Please email Roberto Mighty today to discuss your New Media needs.

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ABOUT CELESTIAL MEDIA
Celestial Media clients, broadcast outlets, sponsors and marketing partners include Boston Scientific, WCVB-TV Channel 5, The Argosy Foundation, Harvard Medical School, MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, US Centers for Disease Control, eMedtrain, USA-LOAN, The J.Jill Group, The Institute for Responsive Education, Harvard School of Public Health, Zone Laboratories, HarperCollins Publishers, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Random House Publishers, the TJX companies, The Boston Foundation, and many more.

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