A video is a series of images shown rapidly to simulate motion
Smashcast had an opportunity to meet 955 Dreams, a mobile app development company supported by Kapor Capital, to test out their new History of Jazz app for the Apple iPad. The app provided an interactive lesson on Jazz History, Black History, and iPad app development.
This year, the Mitchell Kapor Foundationd decided to do something a little different for their annual report— they did a video shoot. These days, most nonprofits go paperless for their annual reports, creating PDFs and simply e-amilng them to their contacts. But the folks over at the Kapor Foundation wanted to do something more engaging with a little more personality, so they all did their part to report the yearly financials in front of the green screen.
Bay Area social and environmental justice organizations and community members came together to celebrate the unveiling of the "It's Time" Kapor Center mural by Favianna Rodriguez in uptown Oakland (2148 Broadway), and to join forces for a better planet and a healthier community.
We host a monthly lunchtime speaker series here at the Kapor Center. December's luncheon featured Rodolfo Mendoza Denton, who is an associate professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and studies stigma and its implications for education. He spoke to the Kapor Center about the ways feelings of inclusion and belonging affect academic performance and the decisions that minority students make about their professional trajectories.
This video is about The Kapor Center mural created by Favianna Rodriguez and commissioned by Mitchell Kapor Foundation. It was a really interesting project for me because I got the chance to meet Favianna Rodriguez, a talented Oakland-based artist, and learn about the organizations represented in the mural that are doing great work across the board.
I decided to create this video of the Smashcasters talking about Jazz music as part of an exploratory project that I'm doing with one of the Kapor Capital portfolio companies. The goal was simply to get the students to share their candid feelings on Jazz music.
This video about a big 'Vote" sign in the windows of The Kapor Center in San Francisco was an exercise in shooting a small amount of footage and producing a short video with quick turnaround time. Being that the sign was made to remind as many people as possible to vote on election day, the video also needed to be released in a timely manner.
There are so many activities going on within the San Francisco Kapor Center, that it's often hard for our guests and visitors to really get a full view of all that we do here. To this end, we created this quick 60sec motion graphics sequence to explain our work and our family of organizations. The goal was to create something that functions similar to the videos screened in movie theaters just before the feature presentation... "Shh, no talking... Please, quiet your mobile phones".
Level Playing Field Institute hosted its annual Fairness Matters Gala at the San Francisco City Club and asked if the Smashcasters could come out and conduct video interviews with event attendees, asking the question, "Why Does Fairness Matter To You?" The video was then edited, posted online, and sent out to all of the guests two days a later as a post-event Thank You.
We needed a new video to showcase SMASH Academy and highlight the fact that the program is starting to scale to other college campuses in 2011. With all of the text-based animated videos out there, we figured we'd try our hand at putting our own touch on this style of "kinetic typography".
!["It's Time" - The Kapor Center Mural Video](http://www.kaporcreative.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/162X139/blog/2011/01/its-time-kapor-center-mural-video/thumb/muralstill.jpg ""It's Time" - The Kapor Center Mural Video")
!["Vote!" Video](http://www.kaporcreative.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/162X139/blog/2011/01/vote-video/thumb/votestill.jpg ""Vote!" Video")
