
One name on the invoice. As many hands as the job needs.
The crew scales. The standard does not.
Kyle Gibbs was born in Panama City and raised between Gulf and Wakulla counties. The Forgotten Coast is not a market this company expanded into. It is where he is from.
850 Media Productions runs out of Tallahassee, Florida now, and it started the way a lot of production companies start: a camera, a subject worth filming, and no idea what to charge for it.
What it turned into is a company that spends most of its days on job sites, in shipyards, on acreage, and at ceremonies where nothing gets a second take. Contractors, marine builders, land brokers, school districts, and trades across the Panhandle, the Big Bend, and South Georgia.
The size of the crew is set by the job, not by a payroll. A single-camera interview goes out with one operator. A ceremony with a podium, three angles and a board feed goes out with the people who are genuinely best at those things, pulled from the freelancers this region actually has. Each of them gets hired for the one thing they are excellent at, which is why a bigger job does not mean a thinner result.
The documentary work is still here, and it is the reason the commercial work looks the way it does. A progress video and a short film are the same craft pointed at different problems: find the story, shoot it honestly, and cut out everything that is not load-bearing.
What does not change is who you deal with. One number to call, one person accountable for the result, and that person is on the job with you.
What shows up in the truck.
- Cameras
- Dual Sony A7 IV bodies, matched and time-synced. Backup body on every commercial job.
- Audio
- Wireless lavs plus a board feed on any job with a podium. Redundant recording, always.
- Air
- DJI platform for standard aerial, purpose-built FPV aircraft for one-take cinematic work.
- Post
- Adobe Premiere Pro, colour graded, licensed music, captioned deliverables in every aspect ratio.
We can clear your gate.
Certificates of insurance naming your company as additional insured are usually same day. Airspace authorizations are filed before the shoot, not on arrival.
- FAA Part 107
- Remote Pilot Certificate, commercial sUAS
- $1M General Liability
- Commercial policy, certificates on request
- $2M Aerial Liability
- Drone liability plus hull coverage
- Visual Observer
- Second crew member on all FPV operations
Tallahassee · Panama City · Port St. Joe & the Forgotten Coast · Apalachicola & Franklin County · Destin & 30A · Wakulla & the Big Bend · Thomasville, GA · Moultrie & Bainbridge, GA
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