Every tattoo studio in Kansas City has an Instagram full of finished pieces, and every one of those grids looks the same on a phone. What clients cannot see anywhere is how the studio works: the consult, the drawing, the pace of a session, whether the artist listens. That is the video.
The Kansas City angle
Kansas City has a deep tattoo scene: Westport, 39th Street, the Crossroads, and studios in Overland Park and Independence with waitlists. The competition is not for walk-ins, it is for the client planning a large custom piece who is choosing an artist months out. That client wants to see the process and the person.
The studios themselves are also the best-designed rooms in their neighborhoods. Film them like the small design studios they are.
One custom piece, filmed across two visits
We would follow one custom piece with a willing client. Visit one, an hour: the consult, the reference images, the artist sketching. Visit two, three hours: the stencil going on, the first line, the mid-session break, the last wipe-down and the mirror. Lav mic on the artist throughout so the film has a voice without a sit-down interview.
The finished film is ninety seconds and it answers every question a nervous first-timer or a serious collector has, without a single word of copy.
What to actually make
- A 90-second studio film — one piece from consult to mirror, the artist narrating in their own words.
- Artist profiles — a repeatable one-minute format per artist for the booking page.
- Process verticals — linework, shading and the reveal as separate short pieces.
- A shop tour — the space, the sterilization station and the front desk, for the person who has never been in a studio.
What it costs in Kansas City
For most of the businesses in this post the right starting point is The Short at $2,000: a half-day shoot cut into one 60-to-90-second film plus vertical cut-downs. 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.