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Welcome JALT 2009 Teachers and Participants! Please Click on the Book Covers Below to go to
the Digital Video Day Webpage
New Release:
Shizuoka
Cherry Blossom Festival
Held annually on the first weekend in April, the Cherry Blossom Festival
is the biggest event of the year in Shizuoka City. A seemingly uncountable number of people attend and/or participate
in the three-day event at venues all over town. Cherry trees throughout the city seem to miraculously comply by blooming
just in time making for a dramatic backdrop to performances by thousands of participants. What most don't know is
that every year four local boys are selected to learn and perform an ancient and sacred dance on the main stage of the famed
Sengen Shrine.
***Click here to play video of the Cherry Blossom Festival.
GMP Photography Recognized with Prizes
***Click the photo above to view a gallery of GMP's winning photos.
A Grand Marquee photo was awarded a gold
medal in the prestigious photography contest sponsored by Betterphoto.com.
More than 31,600 entries were submitted
to the online photography contest, which attracted contestants from around the world and featured 10 separate categories.
GMP's image, "Iconic Detroit 2", garnered top honors after being submitted
in the Elements of Design category.
"It's very exciting to have the photos recognized with awards," said GMP's founder,
Marcus Grandon. "It acts as such positive reinforcement and as tangible evidence that our efforts to attain a high-standard in
all of our multi-media productions are being noticed."
Other GMP photos were selected for numerous Editor's Pick Awards.
Now Shooting High-Definition Video
GMP upgraded to high-definition video in January and our early HD video projects have completely met expectations.
We now have one Sony Z5U and one Sony FX1000. They are both in the same family of cameras
from Sony and both record in stunning HDV! They compliment each other in exceptional ways giving GMP the ability to
do two camera shoots for events completely in HD. These cameras also shoot in standard definition, so we now can do
multiple camera shoots in SD as well. At the same time, the studio received upgrades in
the tripod area with a Slik Professional 4N that goes up 7.5 feet, and a very dependable Libec LS-38 for day-to-day HDV productions.
Last but not least we ordered a new heart for the studio in the form of an Apple Mac Pro with
2 Quad-Core Xeon "Nehalem" processors for a total of 8 core processors (An Octo Mac Pro). This provides major
horsepower to pull the HD train. All subsequent GMP projects will be shot in HDV unless
otherwise requested.
New Releases:
Second University Textbook Completed
GMP teamed up again with Alpha-Maya Press to release another university textbook. It was originally released in
April as an e-book with the published version on campuses several months later. All the videos used in the lesson
content were created by GMP. See "Digital Video Day" sidebar for more information.
Photography Book Published
This book was released in April. GMP did all the photography for this publication which is a book of photos with accompanying
essays. It's available only as an e-book at this time. See the "Conversation Pieces" menu item on the sidebar for more details.
Excerpts from Noh Hamlet
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| Kuniyoshi Ueda as Hamlet |
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| May 25, 2004 at Osaka Sakai Noh Theater |
We were recently asked by ISHCC in Japan to create a short video of "Noh Hamlet in English". If you have never
seen Noh, a typical performance lasts about an hour, but it was requested that we make the video 5 minutes or less. We created
two versions, one condensed version of the story (5 Minutes), and the other a promotional trailer (2.5 Minutes).
Click here to play the teaser trailer for Noh Hamlet.
Click here to play the condensed version of "Noh Hamlet in English".
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