The Tech Awards is a program of The Tech Interactive (previously The Tech Museum of Innovation) where innovators from any country are recognized for technological contributions which benefit the greatest number of people. The Tech has granted the awards yearly since 2001 to multiple recipients in each category, one recipient in each category also gets a cash award of $50,000 from any of various award sponsors.
Working with MediaTrope Interactive Studio and The Tech, I was tasked to create visual stories for each laureates from a script and voice-over. I obtained images and footage from each of the laureates over the course of the first couple months of the project which would need to be aligned to script. Inevitably there were missing assets that I needed create, animate, or find image stock to fill in the stories visual holes. In the process of collating all of the the assets, I would build 2, or 3 introduction visual prototypes based on a theme. The Tech reviewed and selected which design would be used for the production process. From there, it was a very organic journey of many long days of the creation process.
After working on the awards project for 8 years, 2008 was my final year producing these award laureate stories. After 2008, The Tech underwent some business restructuring and brought the video project in-house and I moved on to other projects. Below are the final 25 2006 award laureate stories which are in groups of 5 by category. One of the most inspiring parts of working on this project as a whole, was opportunity to learn about the wonderful things humans do for each other and to represent them in short stories.
2008 Economic Award Laureates (Duration: 6:33)
2008 Education Award Laureates (Duration: 6:58)
2008 Environment Award Laureates (Duration: 6:40)
2008 Equality Award Laureates (Duration: 6:57)
2008 Health Award Laureates (Duration: 6:42)