Ed
Sharpe and CouryGraph Productions embraced the Gold category
when MarCom Awards announced winners for the 2007 international
awards competition that recognizes outstanding creative achievement by
marketing and communication professionals. There were over 5,000 entries
from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in the
2007 competition.
In a departure from his Award winning Documentary and News work
Sharpe is most known for, this video is a
"Whimsical
Spy
Spoof Series" based around the action adventure hero Cam
Stryker.
The first Cam Stryker adventure, SPHERE FACTOR, still continues to
gather acclaim and took a 2006 Honorable Mention / Videography in the
Accolade Video Competition, an Honorable Mention at the Berkeley Film
and Video Festival in October 2007 as well as 2007 Silver Davey Award, and
high honor with a 2007 Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy (R) Nomination.
72 – ADVANCED MEDIA – ARTS / ENTERTAINMENT Sphere
Factor! CouryGraph Productions / Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV
– Glendale, AZ
Ed Sharpe
There are a common croup of characters and actors that appear in
these ministries. Cam Stryker and also Mort, Cam
Stryker's Evil Twin is played by Ed Sharpe with occasionally the voice of Sharpe's Wife
Bette Plays Cam Stryker's wife; voice in the background.
Coco Whitman played by Rose Prescott , and usually a great Evil
Part played by Bill Schreiner of Achieve Radio, who seems always willing
to participate in these antics.
Sphere Factor also had assistance on script from Jenifer Reeves :in
southern California conferring via IM and cell phone though out the
production and Glendale's Denis Davis assisting in lighting
on one crucial Scene
Jenifer
Reeves -Consultant to CouryGraph Productions
Meet Jenifer Reeves, a talented creative consultant - "I was
honored to be asked by CouryGraph Productions
to creatively consult on the script for the Short "Sphere Factor"
produced by Ed Sharpe ."
Distance is never a problem in this age of online communications and
Jenifer continues -
"Since I am in California, we worked on our ideas over the
telephone and computer.
Nothing stops us from getting the job done!
MarCom
entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments,
advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and
freelancers. The
competition has grown to perhaps the largest of its kind in the world. A
look at the
winners shows a range in size from individual communicators to media
conglomerates
and Fortune 50 companies. The competition is so well respected in the
industry
that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local
business
communicator chapters are entrants.
MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing
and
Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of
several
thousand creative professionals. The Association oversees awards and
recognition
programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence.
As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the efforts of
creative professionals
who contribute their unique talents to public service and charitable
organizations. Over
the past year, AMCP’s Advisory Board donated over $20,000 in grants to
support the
efforts of its members. That money was used for marketing materials for
homeless
shelters, orphanages, day camps, community theaters, art centers,
programs for the elderly
and for child care and educational endeavors for the underprivileged.
Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals
whose talent
exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a
benchmark for the
industry.
Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media
and
communication efforts- marketing, publications, marketing/promotion,
public service/pro
bono, creativity and electronic/interactive. About 18% of the entries
won the Platinum
Award, the organization’s top honor. A complete list of Platinum
About CouryGraph Productions / Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV in
Glendale, AZ
Glendale Daily Planet, the parent organization of KKAT-IPTV was started
in 2004 as the first community journalism news site in Glendale and
perhaps all of Arizona... Serving The Metro West Side of the Valley of
the Sun, Glendale Daily Planet has witnessed, participated in and
recorded the further rejuvenation of the downtown core, the meteoric
rise of the 'Glendale Sports Empire' and the restoration of historic
sections of the town.
One aspect Sharpe is most proud of is the ability to have a continuous
24/7 stream of archived footage in the player but yet, when a special
event arises, have the ability to go live interrupting the
pre-programmed content to cover the event. With the advent of higher
speed EVDO radio cards and compact portable satellite terminals the
options are limitless.
Residents can now catch stories of interest on their schedule, taking
advantage of the on-demand character of Internet media. No more waiting
for 5 or 10pm and no need to program the TiVo. Important stories remain
available, a mouse click away, for years in the online archives..
In addition to his work With KKAT-IPTV, CouryGraph Productions and the
Glendale Daily Planet, Ed Sharpe is the webmaster for MCA-I Chapter 44
in Phoenix Arizona and a member of the national Media Communications
Association-International Association.
Sharpe is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences (NATAS), Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), Independent
Feature Project (IFP) (IFP/PHX), Investigative Reporters and Editors
(IRE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society
of Professional Journalists (SPJ), National Press Photographers
Association (NPPA), Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and
Computation (SMECC) member of the national Media Communications
Association-International Association (MCAI) and other associations.
The work of Ed Sharpe from CouryGraph Productions and other
participative community journalists and engineering staff may be viewed,
24-hours a day, seven days a week at
http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com/
.
Interested in having your work seen by the world? Contact the Glendale
Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV to schedule airing! Use the email link on the
site.
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