A travel advisor sells trust before they sell a trip. The client is handing over two weeks and a large number, and they want to know how the sausage is made: how you pick the hotel, what happens when a flight cancels, who answers the phone at midnight in Lisbon. A film that shows the planning is the pitch.
The Kansas City angle
Kansas City has a strong independent travel-advisor community, concentrated in Leawood, Overland Park, Prairie Village and the Northland, most working from home offices and referrals. The clients are local and the trips are not, which makes the advisor's own story the local angle: the desk in Leawood, the wall of destination maps, the phone call with a client on the Plaza.
What the film needs to show is not beaches; every agency has beach footage. It needs to show the process and the person.
One trip, planned on camera
We would follow one real client engagement with their permission: the first consultation, the advisor building the itinerary, the call where the options are walked through, the documents going out, and a short interview with the client after they return. Filmed over two or three short visits rather than one long day, which is why it fits the Story Film package.
The result is a two-minute process film for the website and a client testimonial for the referral emails, from a single shoot budget.
What to actually make
- A two-minute process film — one trip from first call to return, the advisor narrating.
- A returned-client testimonial — the trip in their words, what the advisor handled.
- A "how I work" piece — ninety seconds for the consultation booking page.
- Destination explainers — the advisor talking through one region per clip, for the newsletter.
What it costs in Kansas City
For most of the businesses in this post the right starting point is the Story Film at $4,500: a full shoot day with interviews, cut into a two-to-three-minute film. Every package is published on our brand film page, and the video production cost page explains what moves the number up or down. There is no travel fee anywhere in the metro, Overland Park to Lee's Summit to Lawrence.
How the shoot works
It is the same two people on every project, Josh and Brandon. We scope it on a call, write the shot list, show up with lights and a lav mic, and stay out of the way of your customers. A first cut lands in about two weeks with unlimited revisions after that, and you own every frame, including the raw footage on request.
If this is your business, the brand film page has the packages, the examples and the calendar link. If you are not sure which package fits, this is how we work and why the prices are on the site.