The first webumentary in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra series that is being used to introduce Marin Alsop, the new music director who is the first female music director of a major American symphony orchestra, features comments from Alsop interpersed with footage of her conducting the orchestra. The video shows Alsop in front of a white backdrop, with the conducting scenes shot in black and white. The white limbo was used to make Alsop stand out, with the black-and-white concert footage contrasting with the white limbo and providing poetic shots of the beautiful instruments.
Production Company: Protagonist Films James Bartolomeo, director; Jennifer Koestler, producer Editorial: Protagonist Films Geoffrey Richman, editor
Ad Council, ONDCP, Strawberry Frog, Director Haya Waseem Team To Combat Opioid Overdoses
Developed as part of the Ad Councilโs partnership with the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and created pro bono by agency StrawberryFrog, this public service campaign underscores the vital role young people can play in reversing opioid overdoses by carrying naloxone (often branded as Narcan or ReVive).
Directed by Haya Waseem via production company Object & Animal, this โItโs Gotta Be Youโ PSA shows how a girl answers the call to help save another young person.
Raising awareness of opioid overdose reversal medications like naloxone is a critical way to empower young adults to save lives, as the presence of fentanyl in illicit drugs and in counterfeit pills continues to put countless lives at risk nationwide. Naloxone is available without a prescription in all 50 states and territories and can reverse an opioid overdose.
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