Vantas makes video for marketing teams that need footage they can use across a website, paid ads and social, from a crew that plans the shoot before the camera comes out. We are a Dallas video production company that also shoots photography, so one production can cover both. We have made video for Hotel Herringbone in Waco, the launch of an InterContinental Hotels Group property in San Antonio, Choctaw Casinos & Resort, Noble Vines, SXSW, the San Antonio Museum of Art and Stantec.
If you also need stills, our commercial photography in Dallas runs on the same shoot days with the same plan.
Every project starts with a discovery call with Woody Lawson, our owner and creative director. He takes the call and he directs the shoot. We ask what the video has to do, who will watch it, and where it will run, because a website film, a paid ad and a social cut need different lengths, framing and pacing.
Pre-production is finished before a shoot date is locked:
On the day, the shot list is ranked. Hero shots are the ones the film fails without, so they are scheduled first and confirmed before we wrap. Shots are grouped by location, and the schedule carries buffer time between setups. Crew size runs from two people to fifteen depending on scope.
Post-production covers editing, color grading and sound design. Revision rounds are written into the scope. Video is delivered as finished MP4 exports in the cuts named in your agreement, horizontal and vertical when social is in scope.
A single production fits a defined moment: a launch, an opening, an event, a rebrand. You get a fixed list of cuts, a shoot date and a delivery date.
A retainer fits a team that needs new footage through the year. It sets a monthly scope of shoot time and deliverables, includes a planning session each month, and holds the monthly rate fixed for the initial term.
For a fuller walk through scope and budget, read our guide to vetting and budgeting for a video production partner in Dallas.
Our standard agreement gives you a non-exclusive, perpetual license to use the final deliverables for marketing, advertising, web and social media. Vantas keeps the copyright. If a partner, a parent brand or an agency needs the files, tell us in pre-production and we will write it into the agreement.
Yes. We plan stills and motion in one shot list and staff the crew for both, so you get one schedule and one set of approvals. Some setups need their own time, and the shot list shows where.
Yes. We work in more than ten U.S. markets, including Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Atlanta, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Diego, Miami and Seattle, with local crew directed from Dallas to one standard. Projects outside our markets include travel in the scope.
We source talent and music when the scope includes them and clear the releases and licenses for your use. If you supply your own talent, staff or music, your team handles those clearances.
We carry general liability coverage for on-location production. If a venue or property needs a certificate or additional insured status, tell us early so it is in hand before the shoot date.
Tell us what the video has to do and where it will run. Book a discovery call.
