Black Watch Productions—35 Years and Counting

Author: John Anderson |

We last wrote one of these on May 1, 2020, on the occasion marking our 31st year in business. At that point, we had been shut down for a month and a half due to the Covid pandemic and our future (along with most people’s) was far from certain.

We had completed two projects in Jacksonville during the first week in March and we had a corporate shoot scheduled in a Nashville Hospital for mid-March (that never saw the light of day). On the Monday of the shutdown, we shot a video in our office for an education client who would have been ruined if they did not have an online product to get them through the school closings, and that was that for the next six months.

From that day until September we waited, collecting unemployment for the first time ever (as business owners, we were never eligible before this), and working on personal projects to survive and try to stay sane. Finally, our biggest corporate client called us to put together their annual conference, normally a live event, but necessarily a virtually streaming event in this new reality.

We built a set around an LED wall in their offices and shot for a week under heavy Covid precautions: masks, screenings, Covid Compliance officer, boxed meals, etc., and completed all the material that made up a multi-day streaming event. That job not only revitalized our company, it also gave us the confidence that we could move forward and prosper under these life altering conditions.

Since that time, we have done just that and on May 1, 2024, we marked our 35th year. As a creative/production services company, we continue to take on a varied slate of projects, though we are trying to move deeper into the cause marketing/social responsibility realm. We are actively working on raising funds to finish our feature doc “And So We Ride” from the hundreds of hours we’ve amassed as the video partner for the annual Braking AIDS Ride over the past 21 years.

A heartfelt thank you to all of the fine folks who have supported Black Watch over these 35 years as employees, clients, crew, vendors, friends and family. We wouldn’t be here without you!
Till next time…

Monica & John Anderson


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