Commercial Video Production in Kansas City

Most local commercials are made backwards

The usual process: somebody decides they need a commercial, a shop quotes a number nobody can explain, and six weeks later a thirty-second spot arrives that could belong to any business in any city. The logo at the end is the only thing that identifies it.

The spots that actually work start from the opposite end. What does this business have that the one across the street does not? Sometimes it is a person. Sometimes it is a room, or a machine, or a process nobody outside the company has ever seen. That is the commercial. Everything else is filler.

What we make

Broadcast and streaming spots

Thirty and fifteen second cuts built to run. Delivered to whatever specs your buyer needs, with the captions and alternate lengths included rather than quoted separately.

Social ads

Vertical, sound-off, hook in the first second. These are not your TV spot cropped to nine-sixteen — they are shot and cut for a feed, because a spot that needs audio and patience dies there.

Brand spots

Sixty to ninety seconds, made to sit on your homepage and get sent to people rather than bought as media. Less selling, more showing.

Product and process

If what you sell is physical, or if how you make it is the interesting part, that is usually the most persuasive footage you own and almost nobody shoots it properly.

What you get

• A crew of two. The same two on every shoot.
• Shot at your business, on location, wherever the story actually is.
• Licensed music, color, sound, captions.
• Cut for every place it runs: broadcast lengths, vertical social, stills from the shoot day.
• Unlimited revisions. We work until it is right, not until the hours run out.

What it costs

These are published prices. They do not change based on how big your company looks.

• The Short — $2,000. A shoot of your space and your people cut to music with text on top. No interviews, no script. The fastest way to have something that looks current.
• Story Film — $4,500. A focused shoot at one location cut into a single polished film. Most single commercials land here.
• Brand Package — $10,000. Multiple scenes across a shoot: a hero spot, social cutdowns, cinematic b-roll and brand photography. Enough material to run a year of advertising off one shoot day.

Companies we have worked with

We have produced work for Wendy's, QuikTrip and Mazuma, alongside a long list of smaller Kansas City businesses. Ask on the call and we will show you the closest thing to what you are trying to make.

How it works

1. A call. Thirty minutes. What are you selling, who are you selling it to, and where will the spot run. We tell you which package fits and what it costs.
2. A shot list. Exactly what we plan to shoot and who we need for how long, sent before the shoot so nobody is guessing.
3. The shoot. Usually one day. We work around your open hours rather than shutting you down.
4. The cut. First version within a couple of weeks, then revisions until you are happy.

Where we shoot

We film across the metro every week — Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa and downtown Kansas City most often. No travel charge inside the metro.

Running an event rather than a campaign? That is covered on our event video page.