http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com//news/ en liam.hill@myriadglobalmedia.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-10T13:55:57+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/past_work_showcase_-_first_oil_ghanas_jubilee/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/past_work_showcase_-_first_oil_ghanas_jubilee/#When:12:55:57Z April 2011 marked a first for Myriad Global Media and industry-publication Offshore. The documentary film First Oil Ghana’s Jubilee produced for Tullow Oil by Myriad Global Media was cover mounted on Offshore’s OTC preview issue, the first time Offshore had had a cover mounted feature in it’s 56-year history. Over 40,000 copies were printed and distributed to oil and gas professionals worldwide. History April 2011 marked a first for Myriad Global Media and industry-publication Offshore. The documentary film First Oil Ghana’s Jubilee produced for Tullow Oil by Myriad Global Media was cover mounted on Offshore’s OTC preview issue, the first time Offshore had had a cover mounted feature in it’s 56-year history. Over 40,000 copies were printed and distributed to oil and gas professionals worldwide. Production Myriad shot live action largely using Sony’s XDCAM Professional Disc, a rugged disc format similar to a blu-ray, that provided a perfect combination of availability, price and robustness for use in the field. Using its network of global crews, Myriad captured developments in Ghana, Houston, Dallas, Louisiana, London and Singapore in offices, industrial yards and offshore. Post Myriad made extensive use of Adobe After Effects to create animation that explained the technology implemented on Tullow’s Kwame Nkrumah MV21 FPSO. 2D animation allowed Myriad to succinctly explain the complex turret system that allows the FPSO to rotate freely in the volatile weather conditions it faces in the Gulf of Guinea. With a company and industry wide target audience it was important that complex engineering concepts were explained in a way that could be understood whether viewed by an engineer of 25-years experience or a fresh-faced graduate. Reception The film was well received by the energy industry and film professionals alike with the film winning the Special Jury Award, the highest award for creative excellence, at the WorldFest International Film Awards 2011.   2013-05-10T12:55:57+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/at_home_in_the_middle_east/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/at_home_in_the_middle_east/#When:12:29:46Z Myriad Global Media has recently opened a dedicated office in Abu Dhabi to serve the GCC and Middle East region. The new company is based in the city's creative hub – TwoFour54 – that offers a wide variety of support services to enable better client servicing.  This investment in the region reflects the increasing volume of work that MGM is undertaking in the Middle East for clients such as ZADCO, Dubai Airports, Mubadala, ADNATCO&NGSCO, PetroChina, ADMA-OPCO, Maersk Oil Qatar and PDO among others. Myriad Global Media has recently opened a dedicated office in Abu Dhabi to serve the GCC and Middle East region. The new company is based in the city's creative hub – TwoFour54 – that offers a wide variety of support services to enable better client servicing.  This investment in the region reflects the increasing volume of work that MGM is undertaking in the Middle East for clients such as ZADCO, Dubai Airports, Mubadala, ADNATCO&NGSCO, Petrochina, ADMA-OPCO, Maersk Oil Qatar and PDO among others. Having a dedicated office in the region enables Myriad to work closely with corporate clients to align their communications plans with corporate and HSE strategy to ensure the best results are obtained.  The Abu Dhabi office will also have film crew on staff with all the relevant security clearances to travel offshore at a moment’s notice, which will be an invaluable service for energy sector clients. Myriad Global Media has hired Dina El-Korety to be the regional Operations Manager based out of the newly established Abu Dhabi office. Dina will be supporting regional MD Jennifer Palmer in the day-to-day running of the Middle East business.     2013-05-07T12:29:46+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/5_minutes_at_a_time_for_anadarkos_lucius/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/5_minutes_at_a_time_for_anadarkos_lucius/#When:11:06:24Z Time-lapse photography is not a new technique, having first appeared in a feature film in French film pioneer George Méliès’ Carrefour De L’Opera in 1897, however Myriad Global Media’s latest time-lapse required a state-of-the-art set up to cope with challenging conditions in Pori, Western Finland. Anadarko have been slowly loading out the 23,000-ton Lucius truss spar towards the vessel waiting to transport it to the Gulf of Mexico for a month, and Myriad Global Media have been capturing every inch of the action. Time-lapse photography is not a new technique, having first appeared in a feature film in French film pioneer George Méliès’ Carrefour De L’Opera in 1897, however Myriad Global Media’s latest time-lapse required a state-of-the-art set up to cope with challenging conditions in Pori, Western Finland. Anadarko have been slowly loading out the 23,000-ton Lucius truss spar towards the vessel waiting to transport it to the Gulf of Mexico for a month, and Myriad Global Media have been capturing every inch of the action. Myriad have been capturing a frame every five minutes using a single camera housed in a special heating unit that ensures the camera continues to function in Pori where temperatures have reached as low as -15 degrees Celsius. Should there be a bout of frenetic activity, Myriad can speed up the rate of capture remotely to capture a frame every second, or if activity is delayed the rate of capture can be slowed to once every 24 hours. With a month of time-lapse complete the Myriad Global Media team are preparing for another year of filming on the Lucius project as we capture the project right up until first oil, expect in 2014. Following completion of the project we will be producing a project documentary covering the full life of the project and an animated film covering key aspects of the project. Myriad undertook its first time-lapse project way back in 1991 for Chevron on the Alba project, running over a 2-year period. 2013-05-07T11:06:24+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriad_prepare_for_take-off_with_dubai_airport/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriad_prepare_for_take-off_with_dubai_airport/#When:10:47:28Z Since being selected in late 2012  to produce Dubai Airports' Interactive HSE E-Learning tool, Myriad Global Media have immersed themselves in pre-production writing scripts, drafting interface design and creating animatics. Now close to landing approval on scripts and interface design (work in progress above subject to change), Myriad is gearing up for a shooting period at Dubai Airport in early June. Since being selected in late 2012  to produce Dubai Airports' Interactive HSE E-Learning tool, Myriad Global Media have immersed themselves in pre-production writing scripts, drafting interface design and creating animatics. Now close to landing approval on scripts and interface design (work in progress above subject to change), Myriad is gearing up for a shooting period at Dubai Airports in early June. The footage captured on this venture will be edited into films that will form part of 4 interactive learning modules that provide a basic induction of the facilities at which Dubai Airports' employees will work. When filming is complete Myriad’s graphic design and post production teams will be grounded for a number of weeks as they work towards a delivery date in early July. Providing a safety induction tool for the 2nd busiest airport in the world is an exciting project for the team and Myriad will be working hard to keep Dubai Airports' 35,000 employees safe with a tool that takes health and safety communications to new heights.   2013-05-07T10:47:28+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriads_phenomenal_fifteen_at_worldfest_2013/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriads_phenomenal_fifteen_at_worldfest_2013/#When:09:48:04Z Myriad Media surpassed all expectations eclipsing 2010 & 2011’s award count with a phenomenal fifteen awards at the 2013 WorldFest International Film Festival held in Houston, Texas. Myriad Media is in good company at the WorldFest International Film Festival, now in its 46th year, whose list of previous winners include film greats Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Ang Lee. Of the Fifteen awards, Myriad took home 6 Platinum Remi Awards, the highest award available at the festival. Myriad’s remaining 9 awards were podium finishes with 5 Gold Remi Awards, 3 Silver Remi Awards and a Bronze Remi Award completing an exceptional haul. Myriad Media surpassed all expectations eclipsing 2010 & 2011’s award count with a phenomenal fifteen awards at the 2013 WorldFest International Film Festival held in Houston, Texas. Myriad Media is in good company at the WorldFest International Film Festival, now in its 46th year, whose list of previous winners include film greats Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Ang Lee. Of the Fifteen awards, Myriad took home 6 Platinum Remi Awards, the highest award available at the festival. Myriad’s remaining 9 awards were podium finishes with 5 Gold Remi Awards, 3 Silver Remi Awards and a Bronze Remi Award completing an exceptional haul. Myriad’s success is also our clients’ and of particular note were Maersk Oil who picked up 5 awards between their Qatar and Aberdeen offices. Maersk Oil Qatar picked up Platinum Remi Awards for their documentary film A Gathering of Giants: The Whale Sharks of Qatar and it’s accompanying trailer, and a Gold Remi Award for Action on Diabetes. Maersk Oil Aberdeen was not far behind with two Platinum Remi awards for Gryphon – The First 24 Hours and Gryphon FPSO – The Recovery Story.  Other winners included Petroleum Development Oman, Nexen, Endeavour, Premier Oil, RWE Dea UK, Salamander Energy,Tullow, FMC and ADNOC. Myriad also collected a World Medal at the New York Film Festival for A Gathering of Giants: The Whale Sharks of Qatar. 2013-05-07T09:48:04+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/mgm_appointed_to_create_bespoke_hse_training_for_dubai_airports/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/mgm_appointed_to_create_bespoke_hse_training_for_dubai_airports/#When:15:49:09Z Myriad Global Media are delighted  to announce that they has been selected by Dubai Airports to develop an interactive HSSE e-learning tool that will be integrated into the company’s Learning Management System. The e-learning interactive, created by Myriad, will be innovative in its approach in order to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization and will feature animation, video, graphics, games and various testing modules to achieve a step-change in employee behaviour around HSSE compliance.    Myriad Global Media are delighted  to announce that they has been selected by Dubai Airports to develop an interactive HSSE e-learning tool that will be integrated into the company’s Learning Management System. The e-learning interactive, created by Myriad, will be innovative in its approach in order to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization and will feature animation, video, graphics, games and various testing modules to achieve a step-change in employee behaviour around HSSE compliance.  This Project will be an exciting step for Myriad Global Media into a new relationship with Dubai Airports that we hope will grow in the future.  Pictured: Jennifer Palmer, MGM Middle East MD signing the agreement with Samya Ketait, Dubai Airports VP Learning & Development, along with Thamer Habib, Head of Airports HSE Regulation and Policy, Rebekah Marshall, Environmental Manager HSSE, Samantha Lecuyer, Head of Training, and Gigi Picazo, HSSE Officer. 2012-12-12T15:49:09+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/50_years_of_the_club_in_abu_dhabi_a_reflection/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/50_years_of_the_club_in_abu_dhabi_a_reflection/#When:12:18:13Z 2012 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Club, Abu Dhabi’s most established private Member’s Club. This anniversary celebrates a milestone that makes The Club, founded in 1962, actually older than the United Arab Emirates itself.  2012 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Club, Abu Dhabi’s most established private Member’s Club. This anniversary celebrates a milestone that makes The Club, founded in 1962, actually older than the United Arab Emirates itself.    The Club was originally founded by a group of pioneering expatriates on land that was kindly donated by His Highness Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, former Ruler of Abu Dhabi. However given that the precise date of The Club’s founding in 1962 cannot be recalled exactly, a full year long celebration in 2012 was deemed appropriate. All of The Club’s members were invited to share in this historic celebration and Myriad Global Media were given the opportunity to document it.   Through the anniversary year our Myriad documentary team captured the essence of what makes The Club unique and the key events of the celebratory year.  2012-10-30T12:18:13+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/three_myriad_projects_to_be_showcased_at_the_adipec_awards_for_excellence_i/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/three_myriad_projects_to_be_showcased_at_the_adipec_awards_for_excellence_i/#When:12:14:07Z Myriad Global Media are excited to announce that three films produced by the team and shot across the Middle East have been chosen to represent ground breaking Oil and Gas projects and initiatives in the ADIPEC excellence in energy awards.   Myriad Global Media are excited to announce that three films produced by the team and shot across the Middle East have been chosen to represent ground breaking Oil and Gas projects and initiatives in the ADIPEC excellence in energy awards.   In the category for the Best MENA O&G Innovation or Technology Myriad’s film   Islands of Growth has been chosen to represent ZADCO’s entry entitled ZADCO 750 Project First Phase.   Myriad’s work for PDO in Oman is being used to represent the Company’s entry in to the Best MENA Oil & Gas HSE Project category and Maersk Oil Qatar’s entry Action on Diabetes in the category Best MENA CSR Initiative.   The Awards received over 170 entries, from 65 companies and 15 different countries for just 6 categories. These awards recognise organizations that have been the most successful in setting new standards of excellence within the oil and gas industry in the Middle East. The winners of the awards will be announced at the Awards Gala Dinner on November 11 hosted by ADNOC.   The Myriad team has our fingers crossed for ZADCO, Maersk Oil Qatar and PDO and hope that these films give each company a competitive advantage.  2012-10-30T12:14:07+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriad_approach_delivery_of_the_whale_sharks_documentary2/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriad_approach_delivery_of_the_whale_sharks_documentary2/#When:11:49:56Z Myriad is now fast approaching the delivery of the exciting Whale Sharks documentary that began filming in June this year in the Qatari waters of the Arabian gulf.   Myriad is now fast approaching the delivery of the exciting Whale Sharks documentary that began filming in June this year in the Qatari waters of the Arabian gulf.     Leading the team of underwater cameramen was Emmy award winning Director of Photography, Michael Pitts. All the footage was captured on the Red Epic and, as such, has captured the majestic nature of these mysterious ocean wanderers.   This documentary follows the story of the Research trip undertaken by the Maersk Oil Research and Technology Centre (MO-RTC) in partnership with the Ministry of the Environment’s Whale Shark Research Project.   The footage, accompanied by engaging interviews and delicately produced graphics, will marry together to create a dynamic, informative and exciting film.   2012-10-30T11:49:56+00:00 http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriad_tells_the_next_chapter_of_the_nexen_golden_eagle_development/ http://www.myriadglobalmedia.com/news/story/myriad_tells_the_next_chapter_of_the_nexen_golden_eagle_development/#When:10:39:58Z Golden Eagle Taking Flight: A film currently in the final stages of production at Myriad Global Media documents the next phase of development of Nexen’s Golden Eagle. This short, engaging video will be used by Nexen to motivate key members of the project team. It will also inform partners, investors, contractors and other key stakeholders involved with Golden Eagle. Golden Eagle Taking Flight: A film currently in the final stages of production at Myriad Global Media documents the next phase of development of Nexen’s Golden Eagle. This short, engaging video will be used by Nexen to motivate key members of the project team. It will also inform partners, investors, contractors and other key stakeholders involved with Golden Eagle.   Located seventy kilometres off the Scottish coast, Golden Eagle will be a major new development in the UK sector of the North Sea. The project expects its first oil in 2014 and will serve as another significant step forward for Nexen.   The film illustrates progress made across the project. This includes work completed in the UAE, the Netherlands, Aberdeen and at the project engineering office in Paddington. This is part of an overall communications package that the Myriad Team have been delivering to Nexen over the life of the project to date. Other work has included logo design, print, newsletters, animation and interactive developments. 2012-10-26T10:39:58+00:00