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Kansas City Chiefs - Trace Adkins

Real Media recently completed work on a project that highlights the start of 2009 season for the Kansas City Chiefs.

The projects features Country Music star Trace Adkins on camera narrating through images of Chiefs history and past stars.  The project signifies a new start for the Chiefs with new GM Scott Pioli and new coach Todd Haley.

The final video includes 3D modeling, rotoscoping, compositing, motion tracking and detailed VFX work.

Trace Adkins was shot on green screen at the Real Media studios in Kansas City.  The team at Real Media rotoscoped over 20 shots for the project in After Effects.  A 3D stage was created and motion tracked into Arrowhead stadium in 3DS Max.  The final finishing and sound was completed on AVID and Protools.

The project is currently being shown as a :30 second spot and as a 2:00 presentation for the Chiefs website.  You can see the web version at www.kcchiefs.com

Fire and Ice Book Trailer

Real Media recently completed a project for author Julie Garwood. The project is a book trailer to help promote her new book "Fire and Ice".  The project brought several challenges.  We had to create environments that were impossible to shoot in.  Our VFX team created arctic environments, scenes in downtown Chicago and elaborate urban scenes.  We did this with compositing, 3D design and camera tracking techniques.

Here are some the original shots and the final composites.

Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame

Real Media was recently awarded the contract to produce all of the HD video vignettes for the brand new Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame Museum located in the newly renovated Kauffman Stadium. 

The finished project will be comprised of nearly 2 hours of HD content on everything from Ewing Kauffman and the history of the storied franchise to the 85 World Series and much more.

The production process has already begun. To date we have already shot interviews with Willie Wilson, Art Stewart, George Brett, Frank White, Fred White and Denny Matthews.  There are some great story lines developing as well as some great inside scoops on some of the most historic moments in Royals history.

HD Kiosks will be located throughout the Museum and will take visitors through Royals history with compelling interviews, highlights and stories about the organization, players, managers and fans.  

We are very proud to be chosen for such an important project not only for the Royals, but for Kansas City.  More to come on this project.

Go Royals!

RM wins IDEA Allied Achievement Award

Scottsdale, Arizona                                 January 26, 2009

Real Media was awarded the Golden Matrix Allied Achievement Award from the Information Display Entertainment Association (IDEA).   The Award is presented to Allied members who exemplify extraordinary commitment and dedication to clients, vendors, employees and the association. The award banquet was held January 25th at The University of Phoenix Stadium – home of the Arizona Cardinals.

IDEA was founded in 1982 and represents teams, facilities, manufacturers and suppliers worldwide.  IDEA encompasses all aspects of spectator facility entertainment and information display including professional sports, universities, convention centers, race tracks and casinos.  IDEA provides a forum for members to discuss and exchange information on all aspects of the game operations / electronic display industry.

 Real Media specializes in creating in-game visual elements for the electronic display industry and currently works with a wide range of clients in the industry including – Kansas City Royals and Chiefs, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Rams, Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Ohio State University, University of Kansas as well as corporate clients.  “I was honored and humbled to receive this award.  As a company we are committed to this organization.  This is a very tight knit industry and we have worked hard to build strong relationships in the association”, said Brad Burrow – owner and founder of Real Media.

For more information on IDEA go to www.ideaontheweb.org

For more information about Real Media go to www.realme.com

PHITEN - MLB Fanfest

Real Media recently completed a tradeshow video in HD for Phiten that aired at the MLB Fanfest in New York. 

The video features animations of the Phiten technology, testimonials, features and benefits as well as TV spots.  The video was delivered on Blu-ray and received rave reviews.

The Titanium technology is really taking off!  The benefits are truly remarkable.  Clay Buckholz of the Boston Redsox never takes his Phiten titanium necklace off!

This was a challenging and rewarding project as it required us to create 3D animations, motion graphics and compositing.

PHITEN - Joba Chamberlain Spot

Real Media recently spent a few days on location shooting a TV spot for Phiten-USA in Pittsburgh, PA.  It was decided that Pittsburgh provided the best opportunity to shoot Joba Chamberlain before the MLB All-Star break. 

Our DP Ken Brown found an incredible location about 2 miles from the Pirates Stadium to shoot the spot. 

The spot features Joba throwing balls against a brick wall with a batter drawn with chalk.  We literally had about 2 and a half hours to shoot all of Joba's shots.  We were cranking.  We had crew of 10 people on location to pull it off. 

In the same day we shot some kids inside of an old firehouse.  They react to the ball as it breaks through the brick wall. We had an awesome day and Joba was fabulous to work with.  The spot is running on the YES network in New York.  We finished t he spot just in time to run during the All-Star break in New York.

KANSAS CITY SKY SHOW 2008

Real Media recently worked on the video for the Kansas City Sky Show 2008. 

The show was created to be a multimedia presentation with fireworks, HD video and and music.  The complete show lasted about 30 minutes.  Real Media's contribution was a variety of HD footage shot around Kansas City including time lapse footage, KC landmarks, fountains and people.  The project was then edited and delivered on HDCAM to be presented on the new Royals HD video boards.  The show was a huge success and the game was sold out.  The Royals are talking about making this a yearly tradition.  Here is a press release in the KC Star.

Royals add more fireworks, T-Bones want your mullets and do you remember the A’s?

By WARD TRIPLETT

The Kansas City Star

Fireworks shows are a Friday night tradition at Kauffman Stadium, but the one scheduled this Friday could start a tradition of its own.

Real Media Featured on KSHB-TV

Real Media was recently the focus of a local Kansas City news feature called "Business in Action".  The story was done by the local NBC affiliate KSHB 41 and news anchor Mark Clegg.  You can see the video feature here.  We've received a lot of very positive feedback from the story.  Kudos to Mark Clegg and KSHB for a great job!  Here is the story.

**** The Story****

The next time you attend a sporting event, pay special attention to the big screen. Chances are the high-tech visual effects might be the work of a metro production house.

Real Media does it all when it comes to production design. The Lenexa company is in its 11th year.

Whether it is in-house production, using their green screen studio or a location shoot, they have the state of the art equipment to do the job right.

These days, the bulk of their business comes from the wide world of sports.

"We work with half of the Big 12 colleges on creating elements for their scoreboards," Brad Burrow said. "So K-State, KU, Baylor University, Oklahoma."

Burrow also listed Missouri and Ohio State University as current clients.