ABC mockumentary promotes Stephen King special

Post, April, 2004

MINNEAPOLIS -- Met/Hodder (www.methodder.tv) and Digital Bucket (www.digitalbucket.-com) recently teamed up to produce and post a mockumentary special designed to promote ABC's broadcast of Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital. The half-hour special, titled Investigating Kingdom Hospital: The Journals of Eleanor Druse, focuses on the fictional character Eleanor Druse and her journals, which were kept while she investigated Kingdom Hospital, the supposed site of paranormal activity.

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Digital Bucket posted the special using an Avid Media Composer 9000 for the offline and an Avid Symphony for the online. The studio also handled effects and animation using a combination of NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe's After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop applications. Audio was posted using a Digidesign Pro Tools|HD system.