Ethereal Lens Media — Cinematic Video, Web Design & Strategy in Humboldt, Kansas
Story. Cinema. Strategy.
Selected Work
Our Services
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Remote Pilot
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How you're seen determines how you're remembered. We handle it start to finish, and the finished work is yours to use however you want.
Fast and focused
- Short content — one camera, one location, one finished piece
- Property listing reels, social content, event recaps, quick promos
- Framed for where it's going — vertical or widescreen
- Delivered ~1 week after filming
Planned, lit, and directed
- On site with cinema cameras, lighting, and location audio
- Interviews, testimonials, and brand stories
- One polished film, or a series for a larger project
- Fully edited, color-graded, and mixed, with licensed music
- Delivered ~6 weeks after filming
Several polished pieces
- Several productions planned and booked as one
- Any mix of pieces, each framed for where it's going
- A launch, a season, an event, or a full rollout
- One consistent look across every piece
- Delivered in batches or before a designated date
Booked by the project or year
- A block of work planned up front — a shoot, a season, or a year
- Production days reserved on your schedule
- One agreement, one invoice schedule
- Priority scheduling when something comes up
Every site is custom-built, hosted and updated by us — no dashboard to learn, no plugins to keep current. Each tier includes everything before it.
Just getting started
- Single-page custom designed site — not another template
- One clear call-to-action — link, booking, or contact
- Fast, mobile-ready, and built to rank on Google
- Launched in ~2 weeks
Hosting & management — $240/yr First year included
Building a foundation
- Multi-page, custom design built for speed and SEO
- Simple sheet integration — events and alerts update in seconds
- Contact, forms, and links to your ordering or booking tools
- Launched in ~4 weeks
Hosting & management — $360/yr First year included
Growing your industry
- Custom systems designed for any marketplace
- Ordering, booking, catalogs, and maps built into the site
- Advanced product and payment system integrations
- Priority support for complex solutions
- Launched in ~8 weeks
Hosting & management — $720/yr First year included
Multi-site and franchise scale
- One core build, with a separate site for each location
- Shared infrastructure, so every site stays consistent
- Advanced integrations synced for multi-site processes
- Built to stay fast as the operation grows
- Scoped per project
Annual hosting & management — (determined by scope)
How it all fits together is its own kind of work. We do the research, set the direction, and coordinate it from the beginning.
Focused & specific
- One focus area — SEO, social, brand positioning
- Researched in depth before we meet
- One working session to go through what we found
- A written action plan, prioritized and specific
The plan, made real
- A full plan — brand development, content, marketing
- One number for every piece of the project
- Fully produced, chosen by what you need most
- We lean on trusted partners where it fits
- Enough to move on, whenever you're ready
One engagement, end to end
- The whole picture — planned, directed, and produced
- Identity, space, site, film — as far into each as the plan calls for
- We assemble and direct the specialists from the start
- One budget behind the entire initiative
- Every piece looking like it came from the same place
On call through the year
- Campaign planning, content, and advertising strategy
- Regular sessions on a set cadence through the year
- Priority access when a decision comes up fast
- Scoped to your challenges and your budget
Every project is priced to its own unique scope.
These tiers are starting points, not set packages.
Why ELM
Storytelling is the oldest craft there is, and remains the most powerful. From firelight to film, only the tools have changed — people still stop for a story told well.
We bring over two decades of experience behind the camera and in the edit, with work spanning brand films, sports broadcasting, and theatre that earned a Kennedy Center Award for Excellence in Editing. We were making movies long before any of it was a business — Lego stop-motion on a kitchen table, recuts built from nothing but footage and music, and every odd job that put a camera in our hands.
Websites came into it the same way — we needed one, built it ourselves, and found plenty of businesses paying more for less. The question underneath all of it is the same: is it worth making, what's the best way to make it, and when do we start?
Available for Projects Nationwide
Founders on Every Project
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Let's Build Something Infinite.
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