Creative Video Productions is a full-service high definition video production company based in Baton Rouge, that takes ideas (some wacky) and creates compelling presentations that move people to laugh, cry, buy your product, follow procedures, do a better job, understand and learn, stand up and cheer, change their minds, make a phone call or visit a web site.
Creative Video and our clients have won more than 25 Lantern Awards/Awards of Excellence for public relations videos, a Gold Addy Award in the advertising field, five national Telly Awards for high standards in videography and editing, plus a couple of Best of Show awards.
Whether you need one, ten, a hundred or a thousand DVDs or CDs, we can do that for you in house and the turnaround is pretty quick. We also provide labeling and jewel cases.
Got some old VHS, Hi8, Betamax or mini-DV tapes? We can burn DVDs for you. Three quarter inch, Beta SP? Yep.
Creative Video is a full service company that can meet all your production needs, including videotaping and audio production, editing, music, graphics, SFX and more.
If your video needs to be online, there’s a file for that and we can provide it for you, including MP4, MP3, MOV, you name it.
Although Creative Video Productions wasn’t founded by Marc Goldstein until 1982, it has its roots in the hills of western Tennessee near the home of famed frontiersman, Davy Crockett. He and Marc’s great, great, great grandpappy, Jeramiah Zachariah, were best friends until DC went off to DC as a congressman. JZ, as most people called him, had bigger fish to fry, so he stayed home and invented the video camera. He created this boxy-looking prototype using tree bark, a little sap and a few leaves. It had a very low resolution.
Through the Civil War years, JZ, his sons, EZ and DZ and two of his daughters, Weezie and Easy Peasy, found clients difficult to acquire and the video camera stayed locked up in the family trunk the rest of the 19th century and much of the 20th.
Following the two great wars, with the camera still in the trunk and technology quickly passing the Zs by, things changed drastically. Radio, TV, technicolor movies, popcorn, Raisinettes and other inventions like tubes and chips, changed the industry. The Z family, bewildered by these innovations, left the old camera untouched and stuck to typewriter repair.
In 1969, the latest offspring of the family and LSU sophomore, Marc Goldstein, started freelancing for ABC Sports and in 1974 joined the production department at what was then WRBT-TV(now WVLA). He became a news photographer, assignments editor, and then news director. In 1982, he left the TV station to start Creative Video Productions. He opened the trunk, dusted off JZ’s camera and decided it was time to buy a new one. Good move.
This part of my interview with Coach O revolved around what St. Joseph Hospice did for his dad, as well as his mom, in their time of need. Every guy should have this kind of relationship with his father.
SJH is part of The Carpenter Health Network. In an effort to become more top of mind, they brought in LSU head football coach, Ed Orgeron, whose father was cared for there, to be a spokesperson. Coach O and I got into an hour’s long conversation about his relationship with his dad and this is what came out of that. It’s a bit emotional.
Back around 2007, the City-Parish hired Creative Video to produce a PSA to stop people from littering. Not an easy task. The inspiration for Oink came from a visit to the office kitchen for some coffee. I realized that I worked with a bunch of pigs and pigs oink. There you have it. Applying the pig prosthetics was interesting. We hired a make-up artist and made it happen. I’m thinking about re-inventing the :30 spot in HD, 16x9.
So many people suffer from acid reflux, but new ways are being developed to alleviate or eliminate the problem. This is a simple surgery using ball bearings on an elastic band. You have to see it to believe it.
Would you like to see what volunteering to help people in physical and mental pain looks like in 60 seconds? This is it.
One of my most meaningful projects was to produce this short 15 minute documentary on the history of the Baton Rouge Metro Airport with my dearly departed friend, Billy Spedale. An enthusiast of all things military, Billy brought me into this project and I will be forever grateful. “Heroes” tells the story of how an empty field in North Baton Rouge became a pilot training facility in the early 1940s. The doc recently won a Red Stick Award from the Public Relations Association of Louisiana.
This was a mock terrorist attack staged with hundreds of medical students, doctors, nurses, hospital staff, police, EMS personnel and a video crew. It was basically a “reality TV program.” We made it look like the attack took place during a live event at a community health festival. It’s a little scary. It was simulated, but at times looked very real. The video works great for teaching and promotion of SETH, the Simulated Environment Teaching Hospital, which is part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System.
EHS is funding a new athletic field house to be used by all students on campus. It won’t just be for sports, but also nutrition and health education, as well as physical health programs.
We are extremely pleased with the quality of the work produced by Creative Video. Marc Goldstein has a clear understanding of our goals and makes these a priority throughout shooting, editing and final production. The three videos produced by Marc have become instrumental tools in our local and national fundraising efforts. He is conscientious of time, budget and client sensitivity. We could not be more pleased with the quality of these productions.” Allison Traxler Vice President/Chief Development Officer Volunteers of America Greater Baton Rouge.
Creative Video Productions has been a valued Entergy partner for many years. Marc has produced many marketing, internal communications and educational projects for us. During Hurricane Katrina he shot some of the most meaningful video we have in our archives.” Mary Broussard, Media Relations/Communications
Marc Goldstein is highly skilled, creative and professional. We’re very impressed, not only by the quality of his work, but also his flexibility, patience and willingness to go the extra mile. We look forward to our next project together!” Pam Coltharp, Director, Marketing Communications LSU, Student Life & Enrollment
Marc is always a pleasure to work with. He is very professional and will do whatever it takes to help us meet our deadlines. He makes us feel like we are his only client.” Kelly Zimmerman, OLOL Public Relations
Creative Video Productions has had a long and successful relationship with the State of Louisiana. We’ve produced many videos for the Dept. of Health and Hospitals; Dept. of Human Services; the Dept. of Justice; DEQ; Culture, Recreation and Tourism; the Board of Regents; the Office of Juvenile Justice; Southern University; ULL; and many divisions of LSU, including Athletics, Student Life, the Law School and the Ag Center.
So, you’re thinking about producing a video, making copies, converting media or uploading files. Get in touch and I’ll show you how it’s all done. Calling is quicker, email works and texting is cool, too.
