Rush University Medical Center Find-a-Doctor Profile Videos

Rush Powers Media is collaborating with Rush University Medical Center's marketing team to produce 30-to-60-second video clips for each doctor at the hospital. These videos bring each physician's credentials and personality to life and accompany their Find-a-Doctor online profile. Our responsibilities on the project include appointment scheduling coordination and project management, as well as shooting and interviewing each doctor, editing each interview into a clip for review, supervising the review process, and delivering the final version of each doctor's clip in a web-ready format. This highlight reel demonstrates a sampling of the different types of doctors that have participated in the project thus far.

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education Colloquium Series

Rush Powers Media was hired by the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Education to cover the kickoff session of its World Class Education Colloquium Series. We recorded two keynote speeches, one panel discussion and sit-down interviews with several of the key attendees at the event. We edited the best responses from the interviews into three distinct clips, each of them addressing 1-2 questions. The clip above features the attendees best responses to the following questions:

What elements can Illinois and the U.S. adopt from other countries' educational systems?
What will it take to implement these changes?

To view all of the clips we've delivered for the colloquium series, visit: http://worldclasseducationillinois.org/interviews/

Note: Rush Powers Media also created the motion graphics and selected the music that is being used in all of the video clips we are delivering for the colloquium series, in addition to creating the text IDs for each speaker.

ICIJ Promotional Video

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) hired Rush Powers Media to produce a promotional video that could be shown at international conferences/meetings and posted on their website. Our involvement included creative development, writing/recording voice-over narration, shooting interviews, video capturing web pages, overseeing the gathering of interviews and photos from journalists around the world, video editing, creating 3-D motion graphics and delivering the finished product on DVD and in a web-ready format.

Donate Life Illinois Public Installation Video

Rush Powers Media collaborated with Carolyn Grisko & Associates, a strategic communications firm, to produce a 10-minute public installation video for Gift of Hope's National Donate Life Month campaign in April 2011. The video was originally installed in The Thompson Center in downtown Chicago, then continued to be publicly displayed around the state of Illinois for the remainder of 2011. Our responsibilities on the project included creative development, motion graphics creation, video editing and delivery of the final video as an HD file for display. (Note: This was a video-only project. There is no sound.)

Nature Conservancy B-Roll

GreenMark Public Relations hired Rush Powers Media to shoot and edit footage for their client, the Nature Conservancy. After spending a half day documenting a group of Chinese scientists' visit to the Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge, we edited and delivered the footage as a b-roll package in HD for broadcast news coverage and as web-ready file for online promotional campaigns. 

The Center for Public Integrity 20th Anniversary Video

The Center for Public Integrity hired Rush Powers Media to produce a promotional video for their 20th anniversary. The primary audience for the video is current and potential funders. Our involvement included creative development, shooting interviews and b-roll, video capturing web pages, acquiring footage, video editing and storytelling, and delivering the finished product on DVD and in a web-ready format.

The Bridge Youth & Family Services: Axelson Award Winner

Rush Powers Media produced three video clips for the award ceremony at the Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management's 11th annual symposium. After the finalists in each category were announced, the winner was revealed via the video clip playing on two large screens in the auditorium. The Bridge Youth & Family Services was the 2010 Alford-Axelson Award (Small Category) winner. The winners received their clip on DVD and in a web-ready format for use in future communications efforts. Our role in the project included script writing, voice-over recording, video editing, graphics/text animating and delivering the finished product in multiple formats.

Welcome to Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Rush Powers Media collaborated with Tandemodus--a brand strategy and graphic design firm--to produce video clips for IPFW (Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne's) first-ever online student orientation site. Our involvement included shooting/directing/audio recording, animating graphics, editing video and delivering five clips--including this welcome from the university's chancellor--in a web-ready format. 

Gun Control Press Conference: McDonald v. Chicago

The Joyce Foundation hired Rush Powers Media to edit together highlights from a McDonald v. Chicago press conference in Washington, D.C. The media event focused on the Supreme Court case that challenges the constitutionality of Chicago's handgun ban and other gun control regulations. The Joyce Foundation posted the highlights clip on their website and used it in communications efforts for their gun violence program.           

The Learning Institute Testimonial Videos: Customer Service

Rush Powers Media produced a series of six testimonial video clips for The Learning Institute's website. Our involvement in the collaboration with the educational company included creative development, writing questions, shooting interviews with seven of their clients, editing the interviews into six distinct clips, adding graphics, text animation and music, and delivering the clips in a web-ready format.            

Playlistism: SwiMP3 Segment

Dave Powers was the writer and producer of the investigative, news magazine-style series Playlistism on MTV2. He also field produced/directed some of the pieces in the show, including this segment about the SwiMP3, a revolutionary underwater MP3 player.             

Hip Hop's Toughest Rhymes

Dave Powers was the co-creator, producer and eventually supervising producer of the hit MTV2 show Hip Hop's Toughest Rhymes, one of the most popular and longest-running original series in the channel's history. This is a portion of Act 1 of a 2005 episode. It includes videos by Trick Daddy and Busta Rhymes.

Crash Course: Fat Joe

During his time as Supervising Producer of Sprint TV's SEE Music--a music television channel exclusively available on Sprint mobile phones--Dave Powers co-created several weekly shows, including Crash Course--an in-depth look at an album and/or an artist. The Fat Joe Crash Course on his album "The Elephant in the Room," profiled both the artist and his latest album, and included an interview with Fat Joe. For this particular Crash Course, Dave wrote the script, directed the host reads in the studio and post produced the finished segment.            

Joyce Foundation Panel Discussion on New Media: Highlights

The Joyce Foundation hired Rush Powers Media to record a 90-minute panel discussion on microtargeting, netroots mobilization and e-advocacy. We edited the footage down into an introduction, three featured presentations, and a Q&A session. In addition, we edited a six-minute overview of the event (the clip above) and a 60-second teaser to drum up interest in the content. All of these clips were posted on The Joyce Foundation website and incorporated into an email blast.

Redistricting 101 (Part 1 of 5)

George Mason University hired Rush Powers Media to record two 90-minute presentations/Q&A sessions at a conference on redistricting in the Midwest. We edited the footage down into several smaller sections that were posted on midwestredistricting.org. This clip captures the introduction to a presentation given by Justin Levitt (The Brennan Center for Justice).            

Celebrity Hosted Shows on MTV2

Highlights from MTV2 shows where Dave Powers wrote the on-air copy for celebrity talent and directed them in the field or studio during the shoot.            

Mark Wahlberg and Ludacris on Max Payne

During his time as Supervising Producer of Sprint TV's SEE Music--a music television channel exclusively available on Sprint mobile phones--Dave Powers oversaw the writing and editing of hundreds of daily news segments. Occasionally, he was able to break away from the office and interview celebrity talent for a story. He caught up with Mark Wahlberg and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges at a media event a couple of days before the release of their film Max Payne, then wrote and post produced the story for air.

Rainn Wilson "The Rocker"

During his time as Supervising Producer of Sprint TV's SEE Music--a music television channel exclusively available on Sprint mobile phones--Dave Powers oversaw the writing and editing of hundreds of daily news briefs, weekly shows and feature segments. Occasionally, he was able to break away from the office and interview celebrity talent for a feature story. He caught up with The Office's Rainn Wilson at a press junket for his film "The Rocker," and wrote and post produced several feature segments about the movie--including this one about Rainn's preparation for his role.

Airbourne Interview: Playing Festivals in the UK and Europe

Roadrunner Records hired Rush Powers Media to produce, shoot, edit and deliver a series of eight web-ready interview clips that were used as pre-album-release promotional materials for Australian rock band Airbourne. The clips appeared on the band's official site and Roadrunner Records' website. 

Rock Band Covers Lil Wayne

During his time as Supervising Producer of Sprint TV's SEE Music--a music television channel exclusively available on Sprint mobile phones--Dave Powers oversaw the writing and editing of hundreds of daily news segments. Occasionally, he'd also write and post produce segments, which was the case with this story about rock band Framing Hanley's popular cover of rapper Lil Wayne's smash hit "Lollipop." The segment includes a portion of a SEE Music phone interview with Framing Hanley's frontman, Nixon.