May 15

Babies…their laughter can make your day, and their tears can break your heart….

So when we got a product that directly targeted new parents, we wanted to touch the tender chords of humanity. And this we did with sounds of baby gurgling, sweet sound effects and (of course!) by creating an uber cute infant character.

We loved working on iBabyguard from Day Go! for many reasons-

1. iBabyguard was a physical product, unlike all the services, software and apps that we normally worked for- AWESOME!

2. It was targeting the regular masses and not the tech-crowd, which for us was, again, refreshing- DOUBLY AWESOME!!

3. The product revolves around, as I’ve mentioned before, babies, TRIPLEY(??) AWESOME!!!

This video was not going to be the usual explainer video, because iBabyguard was something that was going to elevate monitoring babies to the next level…it was going to help us guard, or rather, safeguard our babies. So we wanted to showcase the difference between merely monitoring and actually guarding the baby.

New parents are constantly guilt-ridden when faced with the prospect of leaving their cherished little one alone. But in the modern life, they have no choice but to leave the tiny one unattended for some time if they have to get their chores done.

Most gadgets that are in use nowadays for monitoring  are more like spying tools, and a parent has to keep monitoring this monitor, implying they can never do anything peacefully.

Hence we took this pain point and painted our video around this. We garnished this with a heady mixture of comedy and tenderness in such a way that every new urban parent would be able to identify with it.

So our story is the story of a couple and stands out the moment it starts because it begins with the sounds of coochie cooing and heart-warming baby sounds. Most of the scenes take place within a nursery and the nursery has been carefully illustrated in keeping with this.

The whole story brings out the usability of iBabyguard without boring the viewer to death with all the features, because busy parents (our target group) have really no time for that.

We used lots and lots of colors, which not only give the right mood and life to the videos, but also reflected reality artistically. To add to the entire energetic feel of the video, we have characters with exaggerated expressions complemented by the music.

When you see this video, you feel the need of these parents to protects their baby, their concerns of how to keep the baby out-of-harm, the tenderness and finally the peace-of-mind they feel when they feel that they’ve at last found the right solution, iBabyguard. Now their baby can sleep undisturbed and the parents can relax. Ah!

Team Involved:

Creative Director: Anil
Script: Vimida
Illustrations: Imodraj
Animations: Azeem
Edits: Pratheesh

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Apr 01

Hello peeps!

Noticed something new? Those of you who’ve been following us on Facebook /Twitter / Youtube would surely have. And those of you who haven’t…GUYS! You’ve been visiting all the wrong pages!

From now on, you’ll have something to look forward to in our social media pages. It will showcase some flavor of the season- events, occasions, trends or  something related to the season itself.

Our first theme is All Fool’s day – April First. We have picturesque spring settings (April is also springtime, you see!)..the flowers, birds, greenery, clouds…mmmmm! And then we have a man…with a saw… perched on a tree branch…trying to cut the very branch he’s seated on! And birds commenting cheekily about it.

Yes, the message we’re trying to send across is that human beings are the greatest fools. By destroying nature, we are in fact, destroying ourselves.

What? Didn’t you think we’re capable of deep thoughts? At times we surprise ourselves :D

Got some great ideas or a concept you’d like to come to life? Tell us! Simply comment or tweet. If it rocks we may just incorporate your ideas into our cover pages. We’ll choose the most creative ones and showcase it on our social media pages….with due credits to you!

So…go check out our social media sites now….and if you like what’s there, don’t forget to comment, like, tweet and share!!

Bubye!

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Feb 27

So now a story of role reversal…

At Mypromovideos we need a Project Management software to ensure that everything goes hunky-dory in the “PROJECTS” (picture that word as a vampire with bleeding fangs – a force to be reckoned with!) land. Finding the perfect one is not really easy ‘coz some of them could get Stephen Hawking confused. But we did find one that fit us to the “T” and it was,(ta-da! and spotlights…maybe also a few streamers?) Feng Office (back then it was called by another name…but that’s beyond the purview of this discussion).

So time went on and we were enjoying using Feng Office. We were their clients.

And then…

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Feb 21

I have been thinking for a long time about writing a blog post about a finding that can increase click-through rate of the videos in our website by 100%.

In the mid of last year we came across Crazyegg, one awesome service, which we thought of using to measure our site’s performance. In the first 500 visits I found out there were a very less number of people watching the videos and specifically only one or two videos were being watched in our gallery.

Initially it was an image roll-over for all the videos. There would be a video thumbnail and on mouse-over, an image with a play button would appear. Here are the two images which I used  for freshdesk.

After analysing the data, I just reversed the order to see how it was working for the next 500 visits. The result was astonishing! All our videos are now being watched and it is a 100% increase in the click-through rate.

Just an image with a play button can make a lot of difference to a website.

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Jan 20

I don’t know about you, but ever since I was wee kid, I’ve wanted to play the guitar. In fact, I even threw a tantrum till my poor dad  got me one…only to discover that in order to play the guitar you actually had to learn how to…well, I was only four or so, whaddya expect? So there ended my adventure with a guitar.

Fast forward a few decades and here now is an app that can help all wannabe guitarist like me, and it’s called Four Chords. The FourChords app is the best guitar karaoke there is (also maybe the only one of its kind). It  takes the essence of songs and helps you play your favorite song using just four chords. Play on guitar, directly from the app, clap along and sing along, it is all possible. Continue reading

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