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Catherine Girardeau's Portfolio September 2015
1. 2180 Bryant Street, Suite 210
San Francisco, CA 94110
CONTENT
DESIGN and
DIGITAL
STORYTELLING
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CATHERINE GIRARDEAU Recent Work 2015
2. Solution: Earprint designed a rich-media
experience to inspire visitors to make a sensory
connection with art.
Elements: Multiple voices including experts from
diverse fields – neuroscience, dance, and music –
and American Sign Language commentary. Video,
audio slideshows, audio.
Role: Selected outside experts, commissioned
dancers, actors, composer, recorded all audio and
video interviews on-site. Directed location video
shoots, scripted, edited and produced all content.
CASE STUDY
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Viewpoints: Body Language
Challenge: The Met engaged Earprint to design
and create a unique multimedia tour of 20 sculptures
from the collection, focusing on the theme of Body
Language. The tour needed to break out of the mold
of the traditional audio tour, include voices from
outside the museum, and further the goals of a new
Met-wide branding initiative.
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Roles:
Concept Design• Writer•Director
Interviewer•Producer
Project overview:
http://bit.ly/1E19o8L
Link to project on client site
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/viewpoints
CATHERINE GIRARDEAU RECENT WORK
3. Challenge: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
engaged Earprint to create mobile audio interpretation
that re-defines the traditional museum audio tour.
Solution: First-ever crowd sourced content app for the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Voices:FAMSF.
Unique, immersive crowd sourced soundscape that
interprets art and architecture by utilizing GPS location
detection.
Elements: Multiple voices woven into a customized
ambient musical soundtrack. Museum visitors record
comments to co-create content along with museum
experts.
Role: Earprint designed and built the app, curated
voices, and composed musical sound beds, and
consulted with
FAMSF on branding and promotion.
CASE STUDY
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:
Voices:FAMSF
Project Overview:
http://bit.ly/1zRQ4dC
Video demo:
https://vimeo.com/122477036
Roles:
Concept
Design•Writer•Interviewer
CATHERINE GIRARDEAU RECENT WORK
4. Challenge: The Dallas Cowboys wanted a rich-media
mobile app to showcase the collection of large-scale
commissioned public artworks at Cowboys Stadium and
to help visitors orient and navigate through the stadium.
Solution: Earprint Productions designed, wrote and
produced 60 minutes of rich-media content in just 3
months.
Elements: Audio and video interviews with artists,
architects, and stadium staff, plus audio slideshows take
visitors behind the scenes during the creation and
installation of 21 artworks commissioned for Cowboys
Stadium.
App: With our project partner, Tristan Interactive, we
created a custom application for iOS and Android
devices and a mobile web browser to deliver the
content on multiple platforms.
CASE STUDY
The Dallas Cowboys: The Art at ATT
Stadium
Project Overview:
http://bit.ly/1J6sriu
App download:
http://apple.co/1F7Rzu6
CATHERINE GIRARDEAU RECENT WORK
5. CATHERINE GIRARDEAU RECENT WORK
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BRAND JOURNALISM
SNW Spotlight (reporter, producer)
Sponsored news coverage
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/corporate-communications-snw-
spotlight?in=earprint/sets/podcast-tech-stories-by
Podtech News Weekly (Managing Editor, reporter, producer)
Audio newsmagazine
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/podtechnewsweekly_robots?in=earpri
nt/sets/podcast-science-stories-by
Google Earth Outreach (reporter, producer)
Sponsored video story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUOBdmk6aVs
Cocktail Science (reporter, producer, mix)
Distillations: Podcast of the Chemical Heritage Foundation
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/cocktail-science
Virginia Tech EMBA Day in the Life (reporter, producer, host)
MBA Podcaster
http://mbapodcaster.com/podcast/virginiatech_dayinlife/
6. Dallas Cowboys: The Art at AT&T Stadium
(Creative Director, writer, producer)
Client: The Dallas Cowboys
https://vimeo.com/96753899
USS Pampanito: Forward Torpedo Room
(writer, producer, sound design, mix)
For Antenna Audio. Client: SF Maritime National Park Association
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/wat-pampanito13-fwd-torp-rm-m
CATHERINE GIRARDEAU RECENT WORK
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Jungle Room: Elvis Presley’s Graceland
(producer, sound design, mix)
For Antenna Audio. Client: Graceland
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/elvis-presleys-
graceland-jungle-room
75 Years of Looking Forward
(writer, producer, sound design)
Client: SFMOMA
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/san-francisco-
views-exhibition
Spirit of a Native Place (writer, producer,
recording)
Client: National Museum of the American Indian,
Smithsonian Institution
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/05-nmai-spirit-
of-a-native-place
SELECTED AUDIO TOURS
7. CATHERINE GIRARDEAU RECENT WORK
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RADIO
Jamming 101 (writer, producer, mix)
Weekend America, American Public Media
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/jamming-101
Linda’s Gift (writer, producer, mix)
Weekend America, American Public Media
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/lindas-gift
Global Hit: Mahala Rai Banda (reporter, producer, mix)
The World, Public Radio International
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/global-hit-mahala-rai-banda-pris-the-
world
Tunnel Singer (reporter, producer, mix)
KALW 91.7, American Public Media
https://soundcloud.com/earprint/tunnel-singer
When parents are in prison, kids pay the price (reporter)
Crosscurrents, KALW 91.7 FM
http://kalw.org/post/when-parents-are-prison-kids-pay-price#stream/0