Video & Photography Production

You can learn a lot by just watching. And your audience is watching all the time.

Video is the most powerful storytelling tool a brand has available right now. It builds trust faster than any other format, earns more engagement than any other content type, and gives your audience something no headline or paragraph ever can: the feeling of knowing who you are before they have ever met you. At 898 Marketing, we have an in-house production team that has won local, regional, and national awards for the work we produce for our partners. That is not a team you typically find operating in Northeast Ohio at the scale and efficiency we offer. We believe greatness lives in the quality of the work, not the size of the invoice.

Compelling video and photography do not need to be expensive to be done right. They just need to be done right. That starts in pre-production, long before any camera is rolling. We develop the concept, build the script, storyboard every scene, and establish the creative direction that gives the production team a clear purpose and plan. Showing up to a shoot without that foundation is how you end up with footage that looks fine but does not say anything. We do not let that happen.

Our production capabilities span the full range of what modern brands actually need. Brand films and company culture videos that give prospects and team members alike a reason to believe in who you are. Testimonial and case study videos that let your best partners tell your story in their own words, which always lands harder than you telling it yourself. Product videos that show what something does and why it matters. TV and digital commercials produced to broadcast standards for every media placement you are running. And short-form social content, Reels, TikToks, YouTube Shorts, built natively for the platforms where your audience is spending their time, not repurposed from longer cuts.

Photography is the other half of the visual story most brands underinvest in right up until the moment they need it. A brand photography library built with intention, environmental shots, team portraits, product imagery, and event coverage, is one of the most versatile assets a marketing team can have. We develop shot lists organized by category and paired with a visual style guide so every asset feels like it belongs in the same library regardless of when or where it was shot.

We are rooted in Northeast Ohio and that is an advantage, not a limitation. We know what authenticity looks like in this market and we know how to capture it. When brands from this region want to connect with audiences from this region, a local lens delivers something no national production house flying in for a two-day shoot can replicate.

After the shoot, our post-production team handles everything from color grading and audio mixing to motion graphics, lower thirds, and final delivery in every format your channels require. The edit is where the story gets told. We take that as seriously as the production itself.

We do more than just create content. We find a way to be significant in the businesses we help and the communities where we live. That shows up in the work.