Bob Carmichael Nets 6 Tellys for Maroon 5’s “The Story”

A music video by the band Maroon 5 that was directed and photographed by Bob Carmichael of Denali Prods/Carmichael Photography in Boulder, CO has been awarded 5 Silver Telly Awards in the category of Online Video at the 31st Annual Telly Awards. The video won in the categories of: Campaign – Not-for-profit, Music Video, Editing, Graphics and Music Video/Concert.

The video also won a Bronze award as part of the competition’s new People’s Tellys category, co-sponsored by YouTube, in which the public picked the winners. The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web.

Titled “The Story,” the video consists of hundreds of still photographs taken by Carmichael, an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning commercial director and a Nikon-featured music photographer, during the band’s 2008-2009 World Tour with dazzling animation and graphics applied by a team of artists from Vitamin, Chicago and editor Brad Wetmore of Wetmore Digital Arts, in Los Angeles, CA.

The video climaxes with performances by the band in Washington, D.C. during official inaugural balls celebrating the election of President Barack Obama.

Carmichael, editor Brad Wetmore and Vitamin Creative Director Danny DelPurgatorio, who had collaborated on an earlier Maroon 5 video, reprised their roles to create the second generation of a unique video format they call “photoGRAPHICvideo.” Vitamin’s team of designers and artists enhanced the photographs by applying bright, poppy graphics and color treatments. The graphic elements emerge organically from the photos and help drive the story by linking still frames together and creating dazzling transitions. Brad Wetmore, the LA editor is a top commercial cutter.

Maroon 5 is an internationally renowned, multiple Grammy-winning band. Their third album is coming out Sept 21, 2010. M5 debuted The Story Video on the website for the charitable group, Harlem Children’s Zone who provide educational and social services to the community.

Here’s the video:

… and here’s a video about the video and the tour….

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