Media Magic Biography

Media Magic Biography
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Media Magic Productions is Northeast Ohio's full-service audio/videography production and public relations company. We specialize in capturing on tape all the fun and excitement of your business, family and social events.

When you choose Media Magic, you can reap the benefits of working with a top-notch local audio/video production team with decades of major market experience, including a four-time Emmy award winning television producer. All the creative and technical skills needed to produce high-quality special event projects are right here, eliminating the need to go elsewhere to get the job done right.

And, if you own a business, Media Magic can create and produce television ads, jingles and promotional videos and multi-media displays for your products and services. We can work with High Definition Video, DVD, VHS, SVHS, 3/4, Digital, and Beta formats along with CD-ROM and web video encoding for the internet. We also provide linear and non-linear video editing and computer data transfer onto DVD or CD-ROM.

Media Magic Productions is committed to providing excellent customer service. We carefully consult with each client, at the beginning of every audio/video project, to learn more about their special needs. Throughout all phases of their projects, customers are informed of any and all production costs incurred during the completion of the project. We hope you will keep Media Magic in mind when you are in need of audio/video production services. Please take a look around our web site and contact us to let our award-winning staff work its Media Magic for you.

Media Magic Management Team

Cheryl Dickson-Walker

Cheryl Dickson-Walker is the founder and news director of the Ashtabula County Newsnet and president and Creative Director of Media Magic Productions, L.L.C. She brings to the business more than twenty-five years experience in television and radio broadcasting and journalism, video production, public relations, marketing and management. In the past 5 years, Cheryl has scripted, produced and edited dozens of local television commercials and advertising campaigns, as well as dozens of television news, information and entertainment programs.

A 1979 graduate of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, Dickson-Walker has 18 years experience producing television and radio newscasts at WJW-TV and WEWS-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania and WFUN/WREO radio in Ashtabula, Ohio. Her background includes almost all facets of TV and video production, including scriptwriting, video and audio editing, line producing, reporting, assignment planning and crew management, news and special event videography, graphic production and using newsroom computer systems. She has also worked as a freelance newspaper feature writer and photographer for the Gazette Publications in Ashtabula County, Ohio.

Cheryl has many years of experience in training new television producers, reporters, college and high school interns and other young journalists, and has written several training manuals for new employees. She also worked closely with television broadcast consultants from Frank Magid and Associates, Audience Research and Development and Media and Marketing. While at WJW, Dickson-Walker worked with its parent company, Gillett Communications, as a minority recruiter at national broadcast job fairs.

Over the past 20 years, Cheryl Dickson-Walker has been the recipient of many major awards for journalism. In 1987, Dickson won the national Radio-Television News Director's Association's Michele Clark Fellowship. Since that time, she has won four Cleveland Emmy awards and ten Emmy nominations for shows she's written and produced, and a national award from the National Association of Black Journalists for International News Coverage. She is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Ashtabula County, and sits as Chair of its Communications Committee.

David Grant Walker

David Walker is the Director of Photography for the Ashtabula County Newsnet and vice-president and Operations Manager of Media Magic Productions, L.L.C. He also serves as Media Magic’s chief Avid editor, and specializes in television commercial production, including Adobe After Effects post-production work. David brings to the business more than fifteen years experience in computer technology, and audio and video production.

An accomplished musician and composer, Walker designed and constructed Media Magic’s Black Cloud Studios, a 24-track audio recording facility, along with Media Magic’s computerized broadcast video editing facility, in New Lyme Township, Ohio. His background includes computerized and analog audio and video production, including video and audio editing, broadcast, corporate, wedding and special event videography, live and studio audio recording, graphic layout and production, and composing music for video and radio and television commercial production.

David’s talents with his Sony DXC D-30 broadcast video camera and the new Panasonic HVX-200 HD/DV camera have been put to use, locally and nationally. His camerawork has aired on newscasts and specials on WUAB-TV and WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, WJET-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, and nationwide, on the syndicated “Montel Williams” show.

Walker is responsible for building and maintaining all of the AMD and Intel-based digital audio, video and graphic computer systems used by Media Magic. He also installs and maintains MMP’s Sony Betacam and ¾ analog broadcast video editing stations and mobile audio, video and audio/visual reinforcement equipment.

An avid computer user since his youth, David has become familiar with numerous computer software programs in many areas. Walker’s software expertise includes audio programs such as Cakewalk Sonar, Sony Sound Forge, Acid and Vegas; video programs, including Avid Express Pro HD, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, Adobe After Effects; Pinnacle’s Hollywood FX and Impression DVD Authoring software, Vegas Video and; and graphic production programs, including Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker and Microsoft Publisher. He also has an extensive background in traditional printing press layout and design.

Michele L. Bailey

Michele Bailey is an accomplished organizational development and communications strategist. Creative and imaginative, Michele has the drive and initiative to teach, motivate, empower and support organizations or individuals in developing or enhancing their public image. She offers cross-functional expertise in

1.      Organizational Development and analysis
2.      Public and Media Relations
3.      Public and Private Partnerships
4.      Team Building and Leadership
5.      Change Management
6.      Strategic Program Management & Development
7.      Crisis Communications
8.      Training and Development
9.      Political Campaign Management

A graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Michele has served as Direct of Communications in Cleveland, Ohio for Cleveland City Council and the Cuyahoga County recorder’s office. She developed, coordinated and administered publicity campaigns that ran in or on more than 80 Cuyahoga County newspapers, magazine, radio and television shows. While working in the Recorder’s office, Michele actualized numerous marketing letters and brochures, scheduled, designed and produced employee newsletters and created programs, which motivated, recognized and rewarded employees.

In the ‘90’s, Michele Bailey was recruited by Cleveland City Council to spearhead start-up of an internal communications department, and major change initiatives designed to resolve organizational image problems. She provided visionary leadership in directing media relations, public affairs activities, special events and both internal and external communications. Bailey successfully created strategic alliances and partnerships with Cleveland’s corporate, government and academic communities.

Bailey has also enjoyed a successful career in broadcast, having worked as an Urban Affairs Reporter/Producer at NPR Member Station WCPN in Cleveland, and General Assignment Reporter for WAND-TV in Decatur, Illinois.