Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys!
by Jonathon Robinson
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May 15, 2008 at 2:47:23 pm
My partner and I have a production company called Playhead based in New York. We just found out we won two Telly Awards for our demo reel! It won a Silver (the highest) for Use of Animation and a Bronze (the "runner up" level) for Agency Demo.
The timing is really weird as we *just* launched our company's web site. (We've been busy enough it's been nothing but a "Coming Soon" graphic for long, long time.)
In addition to our Reel Compilation we also have about 20 other work samples online in Flash Video.
Constructive comments on the web site are welcome -- we dove in ourselves and built it in-house.
Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by John David Hutton on May 15, 2008 at 3:13:40 pm
Congrats on the tellies!
Is the link to your reel compilation not in yet?
- MythProd
Mythical Studios
(John David Hutton)
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2D / 3D Motion Graphics Artist, Editor, Support Technician
Kansas City, Kansas - United States
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You can view the reel by clicking the VIEW PORTFOLIO button at the top of the home page or the HAVE A LOOK AT WHAT WE DO image link at the bottom or by clicking here.
Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by John David Hutton on May 15, 2008 at 3:31:38 pm
I think you have a broken link on your page, the view portfolio just takes me back to the same page. I am getting an error message for the page saying a generic invalid argument on port_index.html page.
- MythProd
Mythical Studios
(John David Hutton)
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2D / 3D Motion Graphics Artist, Editor, Support Technician
Kansas City, Kansas - United States
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Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by Jonathon Robinson on May 15, 2008 at 3:36:30 pm
Hmmm... yours is the first error we've been made aware of. We've sent out review notices to friends and associates to advise us if they have any problems and this is the first we've heard about. Sorry about that.
Could you please provide me with your Operating System and version, Browser and version?
Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by John David Hutton on May 15, 2008 at 3:38:41 pm
XP SP2, IE 7
- MythProd
Mythical Studios
(John David Hutton)
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2D / 3D Motion Graphics Artist, Editor, Support Technician
Kansas City, Kansas - United States
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Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by John David Hutton on May 15, 2008 at 5:46:32 pm
Got it to work in Firefox.
- MythProd
Mythical Studios
(John David Hutton)
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2D / 3D Motion Graphics Artist, Editor, Support Technician
Kansas City, Kansas - United States
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Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by Jonathon Robinson on May 15, 2008 at 5:50:10 pm
Thanks, Johnny! Our location is mentioned in our marketing blurb on the homepage. We're in New York City.
Regarding the WinXP/IE7 issue noted by Mr. Hutton, I do have third party confirmation that the Flash video does not display in IE7 on WinXP. Firefox on WinXP, however, plays video as intended.
Working on troubleshooting now with my host and on a few forums.
Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by Daniel Stone on Jul 5, 2008 at 4:33:00 am
Bummer... I couldn't get it to play, either. Tried on Vista, XP and a Mac. It takes me to the sample pages but nothing plays. I was excited about seeing them.
Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by Brendan Coots on Jul 18, 2008 at 2:29:58 am
Awesome animation, that is very slick. Congrats on the Tellys!
As for your XP/IE woes (also a problem on Vista here, so it's clearly an IE problem all around), I think it is the method you used to embed the video. You may consider using the deeply tested and trusted swfobject method of embedding Flash/FLVs instead.
Re: Our Demo Reel Won Two Tellys! by Jonathon Robinson on Jul 22, 2008 at 6:06:39 pm
Thanks, Brendon!
The typical SWF embedding command doesn't work for me as I'm using a javascript to call on a media player supplied by my web host. It's a little odd in its implementation but, used properly, it should work on all hosts/platforms.
And to anyone still following this thread, I believe I've fixed the Windows/IE issue with video playback. So please try again to have a look and report back with any issues you may encounter. Everything is up and running properly on both Win and Mac OS X in my tests.
It took me this long because we've had an atypical summer so far. Usually its dead and this year has been crazy! Which is a great thing for the business; a bad thing for our web development which takes a back seat to paying gigs, of course.
Thanks, Folks!
Jonathon Robinson
Playhead, Inc.
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