20081102

TBM - Senior Thesis

Dobbels, Derek Jacob and Christopher Bialk
Jamal Currie

This year we would like to launch an advertisement campaign that will promote our work to the community and possibly the nation. Our work will be featured on our website, that has yet to be constructed, and we only hope to reach audiences of all ages and all walks of life throughout the greater Milwaukee area. Not only will our experience with established businesses and firms grow, but our creative minds and portfolios will as well.
This document will effectively act as a course syllabus for the two of us, and so takes on the same concreteness as any other course syllabus in that not everything stated is final. Most of what is laid out below will be met to the specified dates, but some of the scheduled work is pending and may never be completed.
As for the website, it will be active as soon as we come to a decent understanding of how to construct one. This is out of our hands, we are currently learning how to do so and will know at some point during the semester. Upon its completion it will feature five buttons and fully interactive main page complete with intro animation/video. The site will have our mission statement, company history; list of works and pending jobs, a gallery, theater and contact info. Its design will capture the essence of our personalities and styles.
We will be creating a total of multiple advertisements—along with several thousand thumbnails—throughout this first semester. We will purchase spots and cards as our primaries, and t-shirts as a back up. We would like for our ads to be featured throughout Milwaukee as posters and post cards. Also through magazines such as the Sheppard Express.

2008-09 list of prospective projects:
-Logo Design
-Golden Coins -music video
-The Truth About Chris’ Wiener (working title)
-The Tank (working title)
-MODA3 ads (pending)
-Oregon Falls –music video (pending)
-U&R Website

List of Software

Final Cut Pro
Imovie HD
DVD Studio Pro
Logic Express
Soundtrack Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Dream Weaver
Flash
Microsoft Office
Business-n-a-Box
Maya 6

List of Equipment

Mini DV
HDV
DVD-R
CD-R
Lighting Kits 2 of 2
Sony HD camera
XL 2
Sketch/Note book
Shotgun Mic
Dynamic Mic
M-Audio
Ribbon Mic
AJA IO HD
Tripods
Track and Dolly
Light reflectors/screens
1.5 Terabyte space Hard Drives
Tape Archive

20081101

TV SHOW FLYER AND SHELL

Hello all,
Christopher Bialk, student (Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design), and President of an independent film company called Unanimous & Random Entertainment ™ and myself are proud to announce our current collaboration. We have been working for some months on a Time Based Media pilot show. Our initial thoughts were to Air the show or portion segments of the piece on YouTube.com to test the show's popularity. Our next move would be to pitch it to larger and more mainstream studios, and propose the continuation of the show into a 26 episode season. Ideally We would like to sell limited Advert time during the show.
We will be accepting Film, Video, Audio, and Digital Portfolio submissions for review by our board of representatives and pilot audience, Including film/ video artist Travis Whitty of "Whitty Remarks" and "Golden Coins", they will be judging all of the submissions. 20 submissions will be selected for final review by the President and yours-truly.
Submissions may be of any genre, except those of any adult content. We will be obligated to censor all work with any explicit nature, which effectively ruins the work. Our goal is for the show to Air on Mainstream Television and therefore we must follow the censorship regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).The work may be in any language, but will not be translated. The work must be a MAC friendly file format (such as .MPG), a DVD or CD (for Audio works). And may be no longer then 5 minutes in length. Submissions will be accepted until the new year, January 1st, 2009.
The shows working title is "U&R TV™". The idea is to create an MTV generation open visual forum talk show for artists of all ages and all levels of professionalism or otherwise to have the opportunity of Mainstream exposure and PR.

Below is a temporary template shell for the show:
00;00;00;02 - Opening Title UR TV

00;02;00;00 - Quick Bumpers from our Sponsors

00;03;00;00 - Intro- Introducing Chris B and Derek D as the hosts of the show , as well as our Musical acompaniment. Chris B will say what is in store for the Audio (soundscapes, musical guests, music videos) portion of the show. Derek D will introduce the Interviewee and the Film/Video for the show as well as inform the audience of our limited commercial interuptions.

00;06;00;00 - UR TV BUMPERS

00;06;30;00 - Commercial Break

00;09;30;00 - UR TV Welcome back bumpers (possible drum roll by accompaniment)

00;10;00;00 - Intro to 1st Video/Film (artist’s name, studio location, year produced and Title)

00;15;00;00 - UR TV BUMPERS

00;15;30;00 - Current events by hosts and they’re opinions on the matter

00;18;30;00 - UR TV BUMPERS

00;19;00;00 - Intro to 2nd Video/Film

00;24;00;00 - Random Actions by hosts

00;24;30;00 - UR TV BUMPERS

00;25;00;00 - Commercial Break

00;28;00;00 - UR TV Welcome back bumpers

00;28;30;00 - Intro of interview guest
Interview by both Hosts of previously selected Artist of show

00;34;30;00 - UR TV BUMPERS

00;35;00;00 - Intro to 3rd Video/Film

00;40;00;00 - Random Actions by hosts

00;40;30;00 - Musical Guest (concert show)

00;43;30;00 - Closing skit and End Credits

00;45;00;00 - UR TV BUMPERS

Unanimous & Random Entertainment ™
Executive Producer
Derek J Dobbels, VP
10 25 2008

20081029

Work in progress - end of October

So for those of you who have no idea what U&R is all about, I'll explain what we're up to.  Derek and myself are building a massive index of work that shows what we do as filmmakers and artists.  This blog is dedicated to formulating and critiquing our work for senior thesis.  U&Rtv is the center focus of our thesis - this being a tv show I came up with for U&R entertainment.  The concept of U&Rtv is more of a video art based show involving short film, music videos, abstract video elements, motion graphics, and the work of others.  We currently are in the post-production phase for Solid Boss3 and the documenting phase of a number of performance pieces on Derek's behalf...
....we are busy at work......building...creating....marketing.....

current projects: Christopher Bialk




20081028

This blog is effectively a temporary website for the exploits of UNANIMOUS & RANDOM ENTERTAINMENT LLC, such as a selected list of completed works (their descriptions, and costs), mission statement, and contact info . This page will also contain the step by step progress of both Christopher Bialk's and Derek J Dobbels' thesis. The full website is under construction, but we will update you along the way the best we can.