Ethereal Lens Media — Cinematic Video, Web Design & Strategy in Humboldt, Kansas

Story. Cinema. Strategy.

Our Craft

Selected Work

Scope & Pricing

Our Services

Locally Owned & Operated
FAA Part 107 Certified Remote Pilot
Licensed & Insured

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.

Short Form
$350+

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
Production
$1,500+

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
Campaign
$5,000+

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
Commission
Custom

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.

Launch
$500+

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

Essential
$1,000+

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

Advanced
$2,500+

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

Enterprise
Custom

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.

Audit
$1,000+

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
Blueprint
$3,500+

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
Direction
$7,500+

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
Advisor
Custom

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.

Ethereal Lens Media

Daniel Carroll

Co-Founder & Chief Editor LinkedIn

Hayden M. Steadman

Co-Founder & Strategic Lead LinkedIn
Our Story

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

Clients & Partners

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