Event Video at Hotel President

Event videography at Hotel President Kansas City, priced up front. Keynotes, recap films and attendee testimonials from a two-person crew that knows how the room works, stays out of the way and delivers in days. Packages start at $3,000 and every number is published on this page.

The room

The Hotel President is the historic room downtown. A 1920s hotel restored to its original detail, a ballroom that photographs like a period film, and the Drum Room downstairs for the after-party, all a block from the Power and Light District and a short walk from T-Mobile Center and the Convention Center. Galas, corporate dinners, launches and the receptions attached to bigger conferences book it for the character.

Historic rooms reward a crew that respects the light. The ballroom's chandeliers and plaster are the establishing shots; we shoot the wide frames before the room fills and cover the program from a locked position on the stage with a roaming second body. The interview corner goes in one of the mezzanine spaces, lit to match the building.

How we work the President

• Load-in — Coordinated with the hotel's event staff; downtown dock timing is part of the plan.
• Audio — A feed from the production board for the program; lavs for the interview corner.
• Lighting — Warm and historic; we light the interview corner to match rather than fight the room.
• The Drum Room — After-parties and receptions downstairs are the same booking and carry the recap's energy.
• Walking distance — T-Mobile Center, Bartle Hall and the Power and Light District are minutes away on foot, so a multi-venue evening is one crew.

What we film at Hotel President

Galas and award nights

The program, the speeches and the room, with honoree stories filmed the same night.

Corporate dinners and receptions

The reception attached to a bigger conference, cut into the film that goes to sponsors and attendees.

Launches and brand events

The reveal and the reactions in a room with real character.

After-parties

The Drum Room and the night, cut into short clips for social.

How the day runs

Send us the run of show: session times, speaker names, where the stage is. We call the venue and your AV vendor before the day to sort out access, power and a line-level audio feed, because clean stage audio is the difference between a film and a recording. On the day it is the same two people every time, Josh and Brandon, one on the stage and one roaming, with a lit interview corner set up where the venue allows so we can pull speakers and attendees between sessions without anyone missing a session. Vertical cut-downs can go out the same day if you book them; session edits and the recap film land within about two weeks, with unlimited revisions.

What it costs

The Event Recap on the standard menu below is $7,000: a full day of coverage cut into one recap. Conferences and multi-speaker days use the lineup from our event video page instead. Keynote Coverage is $5,000 for a full day on the stage with one camera, up to eight sessions cut individually with clean board audio; each additional camera is $750 and slide sync is $250 per session. The Testimonial Montage is $3,000, with individual cut-downs at $250 each. The Recap Film is $8,500, highlights-style coverage of the stage, the room and the hallways with a two-to-three-day edit and licensed music included. The Full Package is $16,000 and puts two-camera Keynote Coverage, the Recap Film and the Testimonial Montage on one event, $1,250 off booking them separately. Hotel President is inside our standard Kansas City metro coverage, so there is no travel line on any of these, and the venue's sales team or your planner can book the same packages at the same prices and add us to a client's event order.

Who we have worked with

We have produced event work for Commodity Classic, Village Capital, NAYDO's Philanthropy Live, IBM Think, the Digital Wrap Conference and MOCSA, alongside the corporate, nonprofit and brand films on the rest of this site. Everything is shot, directed, cut, colored and mixed by our own crew; nothing is subcontracted and nothing in our portfolio came from somebody else's shoot.

Not sure the event lands here? Our Kansas City event videographer page covers the other venues in the area, and the event video page has the full menu.