A performance video has one non-negotiable: the audio. A beautifully shot concert with the sound from a camera microphone is unwatchable. A well-lit stage with a clean feed from the board is a film. Everything else in this guide is secondary to getting the feed.
The Kansas City angle
Kansas City has serious performance venues and the AV teams to match: the Kauffman Center, the Folly, the Midland, the Uptown, the Truman, the Music Hall, the theaters in the Crossroads and Westport, the comedy rooms, the church and school stages across the metro. Each has a house engineer, a house policy on filming, and a load-in schedule that decides what is possible.
The local angle is the relationship. A Kansas City crew that has already called the venue, met the engineer and knows where the board is can shoot a performance without disrupting it. A crew that shows up at six with a question about power cannot.
Advance the venue, film the show, cut the recap
We would advance the venue a week out: filming policy, camera positions, the audio feed, the lighting cues. Then the night: two cameras, one locked wide from the back of the house and one roaming for close-ups and the audience, plus a line-level feed from the board and a backup recorder at the stage. The performers' or rights holders' permission is arranged in advance, and nothing is filmed that the venue has not cleared.
A recap film for the company or promoter, a full-length recording where rights allow, and sixty-second and vertical cuts for the next show's promotion.
What to actually make
- A two-minute recap — the room, the performance and the audience, board audio.
- A full-length recording — multi-camera, board audio, for the archive and the grant panel.
- A promo cut — sixty seconds for the next run or the season announcement.
- Performer verticals — the moments, posted the same week with the company's permission.
What it costs in Kansas City
For most of the businesses in this post the right starting point is the Event Recap at $7,000: a full day of event coverage cut into one recap. A single performance night is the Event Recap; a run or a festival uses the conference lineup on the same page. Every package is published on our event video 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 event video 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.