Gaming is the one industry where the customers already make more video than the companies do. A studio, a venue or a retailer competing with its own audience for attention needs video that does something a streamer cannot: show the room, the people and the product from the outside.
The Kansas City angle
Kansas City's gaming scene runs through independent studios in the Crossroads and Overland Park, the esports programs at area universities, the LAN and tabletop venues in Westport and Lenexa, and retailers who have turned into community spaces. The audience is national online and local in person, and video has to work for both.
The Kansas City angle is the physical space. A launch night in a venue, a tournament in a converted warehouse, a shop on release day: these are things a Twitch stream cannot show and a Kansas City crew can.
A launch night as the campaign
For a studio, we would film the launch party: the team in the office at four, the venue filling at seven, the first public play session, the reactions. For a venue, a tournament night, two cameras on the stage and one roaming, with clean audio from the caster's board. For a retailer, release day from the line at the door to the last sale.
One evening becomes the recruiting film for the studio, the hype reel for the next tournament, or the store's best month of social.
What to actually make
- A 60-second launch or tournament spot — the room, the crowd and the screen, cut to the game's own audio where licensing allows.
- A studio recruiting film — the team, the office and the work, for the careers page.
- Event verticals — reactions, wins and the crowd, posted the same night.
- A venue tour — the stations, the stage and the pricing, for the booking page.
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 commercial 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 commercial 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.