Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
 
The Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development
 
We are planning, designing and supervising production of a website for the recently established Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development. Our work includes collaboration with senior Division staff and consultation with all “content owners” representing multiple departments and initiatives. This is a multi-page site that includes an archive of past Division events and a special interactive introduction and demo to The Leadership Studio, the new facility created for The Forum described below.
 
AIDS@30
 
CFL was asked to devise and produce a series of seven short videos introducing the AIDS@30 Symposium at Harvard that was held in early December, 2011. We interviewed key scientists involved in policy, treatment therapeutics, and vaccine research to promote and introduce the conference sessions. All interviews were shot 2-camera HD and were conducted by Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan.
 
The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health
www.ForumHSPH.org
 
This new endeavor was launched in November and December 2010. It combines live and on-demand HD adaptive video streaming with a robust web site. The Forum functions as “An exchange focused on health issues and controversies of current concern to decision-makers around the world.” Current planning is for a bi-monthly schedule with several keynote events each year. Our scope of work dates back to January 2010 when we conducted pre-planning and were then retained to help launch The Forum. We developed an overall work plan and preliminary budgets and were an integral member of the team readying the project. We helped conceive two new broadcast video studio venues at HSPH and then participated in the final A/V and architectural design and construction of one of them as well as a retrofit of the second for a kick-off event, pre-construction. Our consulting role also included branding design and identity, website design, collateral promotional materials and videos, video graphics, signage, an award/gift for Forum participants, full-time staffing requirements, a participant checklist, and more. We researched and negotiated contracts with the online video platform Brightcove and full-bandwidth direct-to-broadcast capability with Vyvx, delivering HD-SDI. We also initiated discussions and solicited quotes from Barco for a 9’ x 16’ HD display screen in the larger venue. In our continuing role we provide technical and producer/director services with additional ongoing consulting assignments. The CFL team includes writer Glenn Litton, designer Yuly Mekler, video specialist and editor Greg Ikens, Director of Photography Bob Birkett, Director David Atwood, and videographer and lighting specialist Brian Dowley. We worked closely with the project architect Steve Hurley, Janovsky-Hurley Architects, and lighting designers D. Schweppe and John Gates. Our broadcast video engineering partner was Rule Broadcast in Boston. Of particular importance, we collaborated with several HSPH in-house I.T. and Operations teams and the Forum Director, Robin Herman. Enabled by the new “Leadership Studio” as it was named, we created graphics and provided production support and assisted as producer/director for a series of interview events called “Decision-Making: Voices from the Field.” The series is sponsored by the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development at Harvard School of Public Health and hosted by Professor Robert Blendon.
 
"Health Without Boundaries: Agendas for Action"
 
This is a 40-page publication with an 8-page embossed cover designed and produced by CFL. It depicts the school's achievements under Dean Barry R. Bloom and sets forth the challenges confronting public health as he returns to teaching and research. Created in collaboration with writer Madeline Drexler, we worked closely with Dean Bloom, Chief of Staff Alix Smullin, Assistant Dean for Communications Robin Herman, and Senior Director for Development Marketing and Planning Julie Rafferty. Distribution of 22,500 copies was to the entire HSPH mailing list, the greater Harvard University community and graduation ceremony attendees.
 
Executive Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan supervised three full-time HSPH communications staff members as they produced a new employee orientation video. His role was to provide creative and technical direction, project management training and oversight, and producer/director mentoring. The success of this engagement encouraged Barkan to suggest similar consulting support to other universities and institutions to improve the quality of in-house video production.
 

MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
Woods Hole, MA
 
CFL is re-designing the MBL Pierce Exhibit Center that we originally created in the late 90s. Working in collaboration with MBL Communications, we are conceiving a new floor plan that features a custom-built live animal tank and multiple interactive displays. The exhibits will include multiple looping videos with sync audio delivered via the MBL telecom system, audio interviews with key scientists served by the introduction of Guide-by-Cell technology, and a custom touch-screen interface to the Encyclopedia of Life web site. Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan is directing a project team that includes designer Yuly Mekler, A/V Systems Engineer Sarah Bearse, videographer Greg Ikens, exhibit fabricator Joe Loader of WoodArt, and key MBL staff. Completion is scheduled for April, 2012.
 

"LAID TO REST"
Ornit Barkai,
Carlisle, MA
 
We are providing creative, technical and potential fund-raising support through our non-profit Communications for Learning, Inc. for the production of this important documentary. “LAID TO REST” reveals the buried stories surrounding the little known phenomenon of Jewish trafficking and forced prostitution in Argentina between the 1870s and 1930s. Over a hundred years later, the Jewish brothels are long gone, and the pimps and prostitutes lay in a secluded cemetery, but their lore still casts a shameful shadow over Buenos Aires Jewry. As trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is still a major concern, this documentary gives voice to human trade victims who, back then, were disregarded by the authorities and ostracized by their communities.
 

KATHERINE POWER
Practical Peace
 
Executive Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan is working with Brandeis University classmate (Class of 1971) and Vietnam War activist Kathy Power to plan an educational outreach project. The goal is to share learning from her role in a 1970 bank robbery that resulted in the death of a Boston Police officer, her years as a fugitive, her incarceration, and her subsequent coming to terms with her actions. Kathy is in a unique position to convene others whose decisions and actions inflicted great pain on others while strongly committed to varied causes. We are planning a “discovery phase” that will likely result in an array of educational media and events designed to benefit both school-age students and adults. This work is coordinated under our 501-c-3 non-profit Communications for Learning, Inc.
 

RECENT WORK

Boston Children's Museum
Boston, MA
 
In collaboration with colleague Mike Callahan of Museum Technology Source we captured to hi-definition video and then edited a computer flight simulation. The video program, delivered as a digital file, is for a wide two-screen display in a new museum exhibit. We also edited segments from the popular PBS series "Buster" into 1.5-minute menu-driven vignettes.
 

Hawaiian Cloud Forest Coffee
Honokaa, The Big Island, Hawaii
 
Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan visited and admired this organic coffee farm on the slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano. Totally off-the-grid utilizing solar power, farmers Hillery and Erik Gunther are expanding and simultaneously restoring indigenous Koa trees and habitat for endangered bird species. We are exploring funding and creative treatments for a documentary about this, and perhaps other, successful models of sustainable organic farming.
 

Massachusetts 9/11 Fund
Boston, MA
 
We have consulted with the Fund's 3-person staff and the Family Advisory Committee to plan and manage the 2008 and 2009 State House Commemoration events. We created a mixed-media video centerpiece to memorialize the Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island residents lost on 9/11. This is an important opportunity to participate in the difficult and long-term healing process that we and 9/11 families share. The Commemoration features a number of live music performances and a collection of readings that we organize and produce.
 

The Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, MA
 
We began an expansive engagement to enhance the Society's regional and national image and to promote membership and fund-raising. Deliverables included the conception and design of a new Society booklet, two new membership brochures and a multi-page bookmark. We also designed and produced the annual meeting invitation.
 

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, MA
 
"Preparing for Chemotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center"
 
This 20-minute DVD is designed for all MGH chemotherapy patients, their families and friends. It features physician, staff and patient interviews, and location video at the MGH, all in an effort to reduce anxiety and respond to frequent questions and concerns. Distribution includes the initial delivery of 10,000 DVDs to date, on-demand playback over the hospital's video network and web streaming. We also produced and delivered a foreign language version DVD in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese.
 

National Scoliosis Foundation
Stoughton, MA
 
We completed a new classroom video that will annually introduce school spinal screening to some 18 million 5th graders nationwide. Sponsored by DePuy, a Johnson & Johnson Company, we produced the Foundation's first video in 1983. We are planning to produce three additional videos that are designed for patients and their families.
 

The Hamilton Trust
Boston, MA
 
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of this, the first private investment club in America, we created a 64-page commemorative book printed on a full-color Indigo digital press, a Gala dinner program and a custom-engraved USB flash drive in a gift box.
 

The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF)
Cambridge, MA and West Conshokocken, PA
 
CFL was engaged by the in-house communications and editorial teams to explore modernizing the firm’s logotype and graphic signature. We then provided layout options and recommendations for a web site facelift that, for the first time, incorporated TIFF member imagery. We were honored to work with this prestigious firm whose mission is so crucial to non-profits around the country. Our role included participation in several telephone conferences with TIFF senior management during which we presented design solutions for discussion.
 

The Naylor Collection
Chestnut Hill, MA
 
We were retained to sell the world's largest and finest private collection on the history of photography. Consisting of some 31,000 cameras, images and ephemera, with an extensive espionage collection, the breadth and quality of The Collection can never be replicated. Our role included collaboration with the owner and renowned photo historian Jack Naylor on marketing strategies, a promotional catalog and video, international publicity, targeted mailings to a carefully researched list of potential buyers, planning of major auction events, and discussions and negotiations.
 
A major auction was held in NYC in October of 2007 and we served as liaison between the owner and auctioneer. We also coordinated sale of the balance of The Collection. Feature stories about The Collection were placed in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Maine Antiques Digest, and Shutterbug. A story with links to our web site aired on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. The catalog that we created received the GRAPHIS “G Award” and was featured on a two-page spread in the GRAPHIS Design Annual 2007.
 
In collaboration with photographer Brian Smith, we acquired from The Naylor Collection over 6000 glass negatives. The images principally represent the work of two New England photographic studios in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. They are a rich and intriguing archive that we are cataloguing and photographing in preparation for upcoming exhibits, publications and sale.
 

Scottish Rite
Lexington, MA
 
"Seven Ways of Looking at the Flag"
We researched and produced a new video that will be distributed free-of-charge and installed as a permanent attraction at the Rite's National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. It features the Museum's restored 15-star flag and will stimulate audiences to think about the reasons that our flag is so revered, about the many symbolic roles that it plays in our culture, and about the implications of those symbolic qualities. A 15-star flag flying over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 inspired "The Star Spangled Banner" and we recently interviewed 97-year-old Francis Scott Key III.
 
The 15-minute video features the collection of designer Kit Hinrichs as well as images and footage from many sources. It includes a 1982 performance by actor and comedian Robin Williams with permission from People for the American Way. 50,000 standard definition and Blu-ray DVDs were delivered.
 
New Member DVD
Membership development is a critical challenge for the Scottish Rite fraternity. We created a 10-part menu-driven DVD with a companion web site and custom packaging for wide distribution to young men. Comprehensive planning and production phases included focus groups, marketing and publicity plans, and creative video treatments introducing the best that Scottish Rite has to offer.
 
To date, over 70,000 DVDs are in distribution.
 
32˚ Masonic Learning Centers for Children
 
In addition to the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA, the Rite's principal charity is the sponsorship of 59 Learning Centers that offer free 1:1 tutoring to children with dyslexia. We produced our third video “UPDATE” for fund-raising and a first-ever 30” TV public service announcement.