The Briefing Room

Hollywood, CA, May 31, 2007 - “A Tribute to TV Main Titles,” an historical look at some of the more famous and not-so-famous TV titles from the 1940’s to today, will be presented for the first time ever by MDots during the PROMAX/BDA Conference. The session will be held on Thursday, June 14th at 2pm.

Joining panel moderator Marty Wall, Creative Director, Mdots Design & Creative, will be panelists Kasumi Mihori, an Emmy Award Winning title designer, Earl Jenshus, an Emmy nominated title designer, and Billy Pittard, whose acclaimed former company Pittard Sullivan designed and produced several hundred TV main titles, winning 5 Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Main Title Design.”

“A Tribute to TV Main Titles” will present classic sponsored titles from the 50’s, music and lyric driven titles, and many Emmy Award winning titles of the past ten years, including “The Wonderful World of Disney” title designed by Kasumi Mihori and executive produced by Marty Wall.

Says Wall, “TV main titles have always been–in and of themselves–a tremendous artform that we have enjoyed since the dawn of the TV age. But most of us never took the time to think about the creative and branding strategies that went into this creative imagery. As we move forward into the future, we wanted to take a step back with this session and reflect on just how far this industry has come in 60 years. This will be the first time ever that a historical presentation of TV main titles will be shown during PROMAX/BDA.”

ABOUT MDOTS:

Launched in 2006 and based in Universal City, CA, MDots is a creative services company that specializes in the conception, design and production of motion graphics for network and channel branding packages, TV show main titles, live-action promotional spots, and show packages for TV specials and

award shows, game shows, sports presentations and news broadcasts. The company is led by Emmy Award winner Allan Wells, president/founder, and Marc Dahlstrom, Managing Director.

MDots is a sister company to Fontastics, a leading, stage-show screen production and design company that provides state-of-the-art graphics and a proprietary, one-of-a-kind multi-screen switching system. Fontastics is operated under the expert technical direction of its founder, Allan Wells.

Members of MDots‘ creative and production staff have previously designed and produced graphics show packages for such high-profile events as the 2006 “Emmy Awards,” “The 60th Annual Tony Awards,” 2007“Grammy Awards,” the “Golden Globes,” the “Daytime Emmy Awards, and the “Miss Universe Pageant,” along with NBC‘s Fall Season 2007 Upfront package. In early 2007, the company produced the Pepsi “Super Bowl Half-Time Open” as well as the special effects which appeared during the live performance by rock superstar Prince.

MDots is located at 4130 Cahuenga Blvd., Suite # 200, Universal City, CA, 91602. The phone is 818/753-3600, and the web is www.mdots.tv

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