Premium Video Storytelling To Grow Your Business

St. Louis, MO – April 27, 2022 – StorySMART specializes in helping small businessesown their own narrative through honest, authentic on-screen storytelling.

Our premium services are designed to provide brands large and small the highest-quality video and motion picture storytelling in a credible, cost-certain way using some of the most talented television reporters and filmmakers in the industry.

Our service is pay as you go, meaning you pay us per story. We designed our service for how modern organizations budget their marketing and communications. The fact that we don’t follow the ad agency model of most production companies allows us to price our premium services at a fraction of their pricing.

While we recognize our affordability is a huge draw to our service, it is the quality of the storytelling that is the true market differentiator.

All of our services are built on our proprietary high-integrity StorySMART brand journalism process. What sets us apart from our competition is we use a single storyteller model that includes engaging someone from our growing network award winning journalists and talented filmmakers.

All members of our storytelling team follow an ethical credowith our work that marries the best practices of journalism with responsible PR.

Following our proprietary pre-production planning process, you identify the focus of the story, the headline and key messages. You tell us who we will interview, when and where. It is a turnkey simple process that ensures you own your own narrative and get the story you want.

Then the storyteller takes over the process shepherding your story through from interview to final video. It is as though you have your own reporter working for you because that is exactly what it is.

Our most popular service, is the production of a broadcast television quality premium video story by a multimedia journalist.

• Our reporters serve as a one person band, handling the entire production shoot, editing and preparation of your story.
• The reporter will conduct up to four short on-camera interviews at a single location of your choosing.
• The reporter will shoot b-roll on location following the interviews.
• We expect most shoots to last no longer than two hours.

The polished broadcast quality story will include music, professional motion graphics, and interview clips with professionally shot b-roll to tell your story. It may also include reporter voice over narration if you choose.

The typical story is around three minutes. We sell it as 2 ½ to 5 minutes. It will be the best length to tell your story and hold your audience’s interest.

You will own the copyright on the story, which is one of the other differentiating factors in our approach versus other production companies. We have a license to the story, while you own the copyright. We also offer you the chance to purchase the raw footage (the stuff that ends up on the “virtual” editing room floor) as you can use that in your social media and other ongoing communications.

As part of our service, you will also get an AP style written story to accompany the video. That way it is turnkey easy to post it to your blog and website. You will have everything you need to share it online and via social media.

You are able to customize these stories further by adding interviews, additional shoot locations or overall length for additional transparently priced fees.

Your cost-certain fee includes two rounds of edits. Additional rounds of edits are billed at $250 an hour.

We offer a shorter and less expensive mobile quality version of the premium story that runs $1750. It is a one to two minute story that comes from up to two brief interviews on location.

We also have an upgraded version of the premium video story that is a cinema quality 4K production that involves both reporter and photographer. It is three to six minute story that costs $3500.

These three services are variations on the same basic production model. We offer customized services that build on this model. These are configured based on each customers need and will include a cost-certain price point.

Finally, we offer documentary filmmaking services starting at just over $10,500 and three camera studio television show production starting at $2,500+ per episode.

Following our proprietary STORYSMART production methods, everything we do is focused on ensuring you get the highest quality production while owning the intellectual property rights on the work product.

Your brand’s reputation is on the line every time you communicate.

You deserve to own your own story while ensuring your brand connects authentically with your target audience so you will be remembered.