Murdock Media Production

Crafting mission-driven stories that earn trust and grow support.

What We Do

Create Clarity

Build Trust

Enable support

How We Do It

Diagnose where messaging is unclear or fragmented

Define a shared narrative leaders and teams can use

Translate impact into language people immediately grasp

Cultivating Narrative Journeys

We use a journey approach to narrative and marketing campaign development. Get to know how we discover your goals, your audience’s goals, develop insight, and craft story elements that your organization can use again and again to engage audiences at each stage on their path.

Our Work

Sustainable Food Center

Murdock Media Production led story development, website copywriting, advertising and campaign implementation across radio, billboards, and video to reach more than 3 million Texans in SNAP-eligible regions.

Empowered Solutions Collective

The organization was seeking a media producer to join its implementation team for the 2892 Miles to Go pilot project. Murdock Media Production joined the team to finish the youth storytelling pilot and to shape the website.

Summer Studio

Murdock Media Production captured and showcased the creative experiences of high school teens at Summer Studio ithrough video production, storytelling, and digital content highlighting youth engagement in the creative industries.

Meet the Founder

Alan Murdock is a storyteller, strategist, and educator who helps mission-driven organizations clarify what they do and why it matters. With a background spanning media production, marketing strategy, and higher education teaching and administration, Alan translates complex ideas into stories people actually understand and trust.

As the founder of Murdock Media Production, he partners closely with leaders and teams to align mission, message, and media—creating clarity that supports long-term impact, not just short-term campaigns. His work is grounded in listening, collaboration, and the belief that meaningful change starts with a clear story.

Working With Alan: What People Say

Ariana DeLaurentis

Alan is grounded the campaign in strong research and interviews, crafted precise ad targeting for cost-effective reach, and translated complex data into clear, meaningful results. He’s the kind of marketing strategist you want on your side – smart, collaborative, and committed to impact.

Joel Stein

Alan is highly engaged, contributing rich and thoughtful feedback on everything from the structure of the (Ideas On Acid) deck to the finer details of phrasing on the cards. His knowledge, curiosity, and generosity of spirit really shine through. In particular, his rare command of storytelling principles and techniques marks him out as a valuable collaborator for any creative project.

Melissa Day

Alan brings a strong balance of leadership and experience. He is a great leader because he is humble. When huge projects needed to be done at work, he often quietly put in countless hours of overtime to ensure that everything was completed. He has mentored hundreds of Graphic Design, Fashion, Interior Design, and Web students. Alan uses his marketing and branding skills to do a lot of community outreach in our area. He understands the balance of both art and commerce in any capacity. I recommend him without any reservations.

Todd Maetani

Alan brings a strong balance of leadership and experience. He is a great leader because he is humble. When huge projects needed to be done at work, he often quietly put in countless hours of overtime to ensure that everything was completed. He has mentored hundreds of Graphic Design, Fashion, Interior Design, and Web students. Alan uses his marketing and branding skills to do a lot of community outreach in our area. He understands the balance of both art and commerce in any capacity. I recommend him without any reservations.

How We Distribute Your Story

Your story plays out through every touch point and channel where you reach your audience.

Web Content

Design and launch your website site hierarchy, copy, and imagery that allow your story to shine. Launch your SEO campaign to help people find you through search engines.

Social Media

Plan and develop your social media strategy. From content development to scheduling, and timing posts, you will be able to position each post to support your overarching brand narrative.

Video

Distribute your message with the power of video. We produce for: broadcast, mobile video, theater, and social media. Create content to the specs you need to place your story.

Funding/Finance

Whether you raise money through fundraising, seek grants, utilize loans, or self-fund through sales and contracts, we insure your story supports your financial journey.

Events

Events should tell a story – one that positions your organization well in the mind of the participant. Plan events that carry the story of your organization. 

Audio

Distribute your message with the power of video. We produce for many levels of distribution: broadcast quality, social media, and theater projection. Get seen.

Tell Your Story and Strengthen Your Brand

in Cedar Rapids, IA with video based storytelling for online and broadcast distribution. From brand strategy to script, casting, shoot, editing and distribution, Murdock Media Production takes your story to the next level.

- Alan Murdock

Founder, Murdock Media Production, LLC

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