Anthem's Dina Rudick is in Estes Park Colorado at the 2011 Yoga Journal Conference for a special screening of "Practice: Change" a documentary film and fundraising tool Anthem produced for the amazing organization - The Africa Yoga Project.  You might have seen preview footage of the project on our site before but this is the complete story and it is a project we're very proud of.  We'll get it up on our site soon, but in the meantime, the screening is being webcast LIVE and you can get a sneak peek at the film and watch the full presentation tonight at 9:30 pm EST at:

http://www.livestream.com/baptisteyoga

Recently we've been in full production mode on projects for a couple of really great clients.  One of them is the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, who has commissioned us to produce photos and video for their upcomming 75th Anniversary Gala.  The creative process, from concept, script development and story boarding to editing and sound design has been a wonderfully collaborative process between Anthem's team and the project directors at BC.  As a result, the project has been a departure for us from our realm of photo and video and has thrust us into the world of animated typography and motion graphics.  Animated text can be a powerful tool for communication (as seen here in our favorite example called "Girl Effect") and we're thrilled to have a client who is open to exploring it with us.  The piece has been uniquiely challenging and inspiring and we can't wait to share it with you.  Below is a tear sheet with one of our portraits used in the 75th anniversary Magazine.

For those folks in video production and the photographers who are making the transition, Anthem would like to help.  Consulting is an important part of what we do here and Dina our Creative Director recently gave a lecture to the Boston Press Photographer Association on switching from photo to video.  It was an informative night and if you missed out, don't despair.  More events may be in the works.  If this is something that may interest you, please be in touch and we'll keep you up to date about upcoming events. Thanks to our friends at Rule Camera Boston for hosting the last event. 

The David Wax Museum premiered our video during their CD release party over the weekend here in Boston!  Our creative director, Dina, introduced the video and it was an amazing night complete with, 12 musicians, 2 encores and of course 1 very fun video. (Oh, and a trapeze artist...)

If anyone is going to be in the Asheville NC area on February 14, the video will be making its second debut at the Lexington Avenue Brewery. Dylan, Dina and Erik will be there so if you can make it please stop by and say hi.

The David Wax Museum video we produced for their soon-to-be released (today!) song "Born with a Broken Heart" was selected to be featured on YouTube's Music Page.  It was also chosen as the Video of the Day on AOL's Spinner Website and featured comments from our director, Dina Rudick.  Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows even tweeted about it!

A time lapse video that Anthem's Dina Rudick produced for the Boston Globe was featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer!  18 inches of snow, 2 cameras, 12 hours, 10 cold fingers, and 1 picture every 20 seconds = 4,320 pictures and a blizzard in brief.  

Our most recent project, a music video we shot and produced for the David Wax Museum, has been premiered on NPR's All Songs Considered blog!  We will be posting it here for everyone to view soon, along with some very fun still photographs we shot.  But until then, you check it out at here.  

In order to give you some background about the thought process behind the shoot here are some thoughts by Dina Rudick, Director at Anthem Multimedia.  "We didn't want to 'interpret' the song with our music video or overpower its meaning with a heavy-handed concept," said Dina Rudick who directed the video, "but we also weren't interested in a folksy-cool collage of imagery set to a soundtrack. The video has a loose narrative and employes several symbolic through-lines, but we fuzzed out any hard lines of 'definite' meaning so that the video could embody the song: soulful and spunky while remaining lighthearted."  

Back in September of 2009 we had the pleasure of working with the Baptsite Power Yoga Institute on a new line of practice DVD's and now a little more than a year later and we're proud to announce the finished product is back from the printers and in stores!  Here is one we spotted recently:

We hope you'll check it out. 

Anthem's Dina Rudick takes you through a QUICK look at every frame that went into the Boston Globe Style 25 fashion shoots. The project was compiled from photographs by Globe staff photographers Yoon Byun, Dina Rudick and Essdras M Suarez and the produced by Dina.

The small town of Marilac in southeastern Brazil is heavily supported with money sent by workers illegally in the United States, including more than 80 who have been employed by the Upper Crust, a Boston-area chain of pizza shops.  This story, shot and produced by Dina Rudick is the complicated relationship between a Boston pizza empire and a tiny town that helped build it.

Dina, Dylan and Erik recently finished an intense but exciting two-day video shoot with The David Wax Museum.  It was a whirlwind production for everyone complete with pre-dawn casting calls, teeth chattering rides in the bed of a pick-up, busking scenes on the subway and some hilarious improv performances by band members David Wax and Suz Slezak.  Stay tuned for video outtakes.  For now, here are a few photos of our crew hard at work.

The David Wax Museum made it's debut this year at the Newport Folk Festival is preparing to release their new album "Everything is Saved", by February of 2011 (hopefully!).  The video is based on the first song from the album "Born with a Broken Heart" and it is certain to get your toes-a-tapping!

Ever wonder what you can do with a couple of friends who are incredibly talented musicians and a handful of friends who just have no shame?  As a 30th birthday present to Dina and as an answer to her Valentines Day Video, Erik took it upon himself to find out.  This is a 4-minute music video produced from a song Erik originally sang at Dina's birthday party.  Watch if you dare.  A special thanks to the David Wax Museum for helping out on this piece.  

Anthem's Creative Director Dina Rudick is heading up a documentary project on the Africa Yoga Project, and coordinating 3 shooters currently in Kenya - including Producer, Dylan Trivette.

Dylan and co. have been busy catching up on the student's lives and documenting how they've progressed since they first entered the program 1 year ago. Stay tuned for more! If you're moved by the work of AYP and by the students themselves, please support AYP and the documentary effort. For more information, go to: www.africayogaproject.org. Thanks!!

On a personal, and very silly, note, here is the Valentine's Day video card that Dina made for Erik (they're married) while he was away for a week on a shoot. If you listen to NPR, you'll get most of the jokes.

Dina Rudick talks about her Haiti experience on Boston.com. Produced by Ann Silvio, Dina Rudick, and Scott LaPierre; Photos and video by Dina Rudick

Dina Rudick has been producing video on the medical response to the earthquake in Haiti for the Boston Globe.  Here is her most recent video:

Hi everyone and welcome our new website!  We are hard at work on a couple of projects (see our happy crew behind the scenes below). But until we get them posted, please check out our current work and contact us with any questions or comments.  Happy Holidays and we hope to hear from you in 2010!