Political Spot

Bess Carrick produced and directed this spot and with Todd Schmidt they used his motion graphics skills to underscore the accomplishments of the candidate. By book ending the spot with beautiful animation at the head and the tail the campaign trail footage takes on a highly produced feel to it, …

Political Advocacy TV spot

MoveOn.org contracted with Blackbird Media to create this TV spot for their health care campaign. Carrick produced and directed this spot with Ralph Madison operating the Steadicam. Karen Gadbois, who was awarded a Peabody and duPont for her work exposing a post Katrina house gutting scam, is the spokesperson.

Dr. Susan Shaw

Dr. Susan Shaw,Director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute, discusses her ongoing efforts to study the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Kevin Costner & Blue Planet

In this interview Kevin Costner discusses the latest oil spill clean up technology his centrifuge-equipped fleet of boats use to capture oil from the ocean’s surface. We tour the deck of the Lil Gulp and learn that the Mini Gulp can clean in shallow water and is designed for use …

Point Eight Power double click for animation

Blackbird Media’s motion graphics specialist, Todd Schmidt, created this animation for an industrial power company south of New Orleans.

CARE Center double click & play animation

NOW: Katrina the Response Live

Carrick worked as a producer for the NOW PBS series’ live telecast the weekend after the storm had devastated New Orleans. The challenge was to find people directly affected by the storm and get them to Studio A in Baton Rouge to appear and participate in the program’s audience. Using …

Mittal Steel VNR

Mittal Steel and their agency Abernathy MacGregor wanted to show Mittal’s commitment to help the devastated town of Long Beach, Mississippi rebuild. The visual challenge was not much of Long Beach remained. Every year the people of Long Beach held a Christmas on the Avenue event, but there was no …

Mr. Gettridge After the Storm

Bess worked with Mr. Gettridge on the Frontline piece, “Old Man and the Storm”, produced by June Cross, but he appeared here first in a short produced by Carrick. This is an excerpt and her short was made eight days after Mr. Gettridge returned to his home in the lower …

Inside Hurricane Katrina

National Geographic channel’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

who we are

We specialize in creating video, radio, web & print communications for corporations, political campaigns and news/public affairs productions. We have worked with the most prestigious networks and award winning public affairs programs and interviewed some of our nation and region’s most interesting figures. We have documented two natural disasters from sea, air and land are well seasoned at fast turn around under unusual circumstances.

We offer camera and editing packages with our Sony EX-3 (s), Red Camera, HVX, D-7 & Steadicam. Our packages include a Teleprompter synced with Steadicam, plus full audio & lighting grip packages including generators.

branding solutions

Blackbird Media creates complete re-imaging packages using search engine optimization and web based media for successful social media marketing campaigns. Our partnerships with web designers and SEO specialists provide our clients with a creative team who specialize in branding solutions from production to delivery. We offer streamlined web based media strategies designed to reach your specific targets.

HD editing

Our high end editing suites run with Red Rocket real time 4K playback, Khona LHe, Apple Cine Display color grading monitors, Final Cut Pro 7, KRK Rokit 8 reference monitors for audio. Our suites support any tape format from Beta SP to HDcam SR. If your project requires several editors working full time for days or weeks we can provide you with a seamless edit set up. We have five fully staffed HD edit suites for fast, high end production turn around.