This year, MICOMM was again a proud sponsor of the Middlemount golf day, sending our production team member, Justin Hawley as a representative.

Justin competed in the corporate golf day, where his team shot an 11 under par on the day. Unfortunately Justin had to make an early exit before the presentation due to a migraine, but believes his team would have ranked in the top 5.

Good work Justin!

This year Yarrabee Mine, with assistance from MICOMM, has put together a unique and exciting safety campaign that uses comic themes and superheroes to deliver the important safety message. MICOMM is hard at work writing scripts, filming videos, capturing photographs, creating posters and stickers, writing newsletters and organising costume designs.

You usually see him behind the camera, but last month our senior photographer Orin Lucke put the tripod away to walk down the aisle and marry his sweetheart of 8 years, Letitia Mahon, making him the second MICOMM person in six months to tie the knot.

The ceremony was held at Blue Cranes, Gympie (Letitia’s family property), with 60 guests attending the marquee reception on the farm. Orin and Letitia chose to travel through Europe and England for their honeymoon.

Thank you to Bambi from Photography by Bambi for letting us use some of the wedding photos.

Congratulations Orin and Letitia!!

MICOMM has again signed up as a sponsor for the annual Queensland Mining and Industry
H & S conference, to be held in Townsville this August. We are looking forward to catching
up with old friends and hopefully meeting some new ones.

We're also happy to support the initiatives showcased at this conference and have assisted with developing promotional material for these projects in the past. If you would like assistance in writing your submission for the innovations awards or interested in discussing presentations, photography or leaflets, please contact one of our friendly client services people today.

As part of MICOMM's aim to provide our clients with the highest possible quality of video and multimedia productions, members of our production team recently participated in a two day training session with well known freelance cameraman, Steve McFie. Steve has worked in the industry for the last 20 years, filming programs, documentaries, news, live events and commercials for all major television stations in Australia. Steve's work has been recognised in the cinematography industry, with 11 awards presented by the Australian Cinematography Society (ACS) and Steve often works on projects for MICOMM.

All our production team thought the sessions were extremely helpful and are eager to put their increased knowledge into practice. Steve focused on different audio, lighting and colour monitoring techniques as well as addressing issues when filming piece to camera interviews.

Steve's visit has also lead MICOMM to purchase some new equipment that will enhance the quality of your next video!

MICOMM would like to thank Steve for passing on his knowledge and experience to our team.

Last month, MICOMM's workload was inadvertently affected by the weather when Cyclone Ului struck Queensland shores on the 21 March. Our filming and photography trips were put on hold until the bad weather subsided and unfortunately, some of our clients are still out of action after suffering damage to equipment and buildings.

We complain when it doesn't rain-but sometimes we're not happy when it does rain!! This year our production team has been busy filming around the Central Queensland region- when we can. Our schedule has been changed quite a bit by the recent rainfall, but on the up side our videos and photography are looking wonderfully green!

Our client services team has had a productive February, travelling around the countryside to centres like Blackwater, Mackay, Biloela and Emerald to name a few. So far this month we have plans of visiting Mackay, Blackwater, Brisbane and Newcastle to meet with clients. If you're in any of these areas or would like us to come and visit you, please feel free to give us a call so we can book you into our schedule.

MICOMM is currently seeing an increased interest into our E-learning programs for training and inductions as clients realise the benefits that this sort of training can deliver. We are working on a range of different programs including site SOPs, a wharf area induction, a visitor induction for an underground mine, and a geotechnical training program. Follow this link to view our e-learning program sample
http://micomm.com.au/elearnweb/run.html

After five years working at MICOMM, our Communications Manager Cathy Herley is moving on to greener pastures.
Cathy has recently taken up a Community Relations position at Rio Tinto Yarwun in Gladstone.
Cathy has come a long way in her MICOMM career, from ruling lines in the MICOMM quote book to working on projects for major players in the mining and industry sector throughout Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Cathy's invaluable source of knowledge and experience will be greatly missed. It was extremely sad to say goodbye, but we wish her all the best for the future.

We would like to congratulate our Senior Graphic Designer, Alan Hossack on his recent marriage to theatre nurse, Lynda Baartz. Al and Lynda tied the knot in front of 90 guests at Seaspray Resort, Zilzie in December.
Our senior MICOMM photographer, Orin Lucke, was there to capture some beautiful images of the couple and their guests. You can view some of Orin's stunning wedding photos at
www.blink-photography.com.au

We are pleased to announce that MICOMM scooped the pool at the recent Queensland Multimedia Awards, taking out three major prizes for our outstanding video production and multimedia work.

We took out gongs for best documentary, best training/educational DVD, and best corporate multimedia presentation:

Another of our projects also achieved finalist status in the documentary category:

These awards are a testament to the quality of our work and the talent of our people. We are overwhelmed with our success, and are consistently proving our credentials, taking out awards in 2007 and 2008, and now three prizes in 2009.

MICOMM’s award winning documentary and educational presentations were developed for BHP Billiton Mitsui Alliance and Vale respectively, and were commissioned to deliver strong safety messages to the workforce. The winning corporate multimedia presentation was developed as a self-promotion for MICOMM to highlight the features of its new e-learning programs.