Tona Williams (Bigbite principal artist) specializes in documentary-style filmmaking and cinematography, with over a decade of experience as a Sociologist conducting ethnographic field research. She also creates fictional pieces and, in addition to cinematography and art direction for film, brings experience in commercial graphic design, costuming, fine arts and live theater.
The broader Bigbite Productions team brings extensive experience in writing, directing, and other film crew work, and we can work solo or as a full crew to create many types of projects. Our professional equipment allows broad flexibility in the field in terms of both video and audio.
On many projects, Bigbite collaborates with Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda of Blame Society Productions to offer full service production of comedy content - from 30 second ad spots to short films or other types of presentations. Blame Society is a well-known comedy team that attracts an established fan base to its projects:
Visit their website for hours of entertaining online videos.
Their comedy shorts and episodic series have over 64 million views on YouTube; they have 157,000 YouTube subscribers and 8,000 MySpace friends.
The Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager series has received over 35 million views on YouTube, MySpace and other websites. It has received featured articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TV Week Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post and The Metro (UK), among others. It has also been featured or profiled on VH-1, ABC’s Good Morning America, BBC News online, G4 Tech TV and Spike TV. Chad Vader won the 2007 “George Lucas Selects” award from the 2007 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge.
The Celebrity Bric-a-Brac series (four-episodes) received over 1,150,000 downloads on YouTube and AtomFilms.com.
The Life and Death of a Pumpkin (short film) won the Best Short Film and Best Concept award at the 2006 Chicago Horror Film Festival and received 1,776,000 downloads on YouTube and MySpace.
Aaron and Matt were the keynote speakers at the 2008 Erma Bombeck Writing Conference for humor writers (Dayton, OH).
Blame Society Productions has made convention appearances (including the massive “Fan Expo” in Toronto) and has been invited to attend ComiCon, ROFLcon and others.
Bigbite's post-production options include editing, DVD design and authoring, and the creation of multimedia presentations.
Editing:
Final Cut Pro editing suite and Adobe CS4 design/animation suite
DVD design and authoring:
Authoring with the DVD Studio Pro software, incorporating custom graphics, menus, and interactivity
Presentation in multiple formats:
We can format films for presentation on the web and do website design, as well as provide digital tape backups and DVD copies of projects