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Tex Kelly Productions
Tex Kelly filming a bride on location with a cinema camera and a shotgun microphone

Video Production · Prescott & Yavapai County

Video production, start to finish.

Commercials, brand films, branded series, and narrative shorts. Script, cast, shoot, cut, and deliver, all under one roof in Prescott Valley.

Full-service means you make one phone call. The script, the crew, the shoot, the edit, the color, the sound, and the versions for every screen all come back from the same place.

I ran marketing for companies for a decade before I bought a camera. So the production starts from the question a marketer asks, which is what this film has to make someone do, and works backward to the shot list. It is the reason the commercials on this page have run on television and the reason the brand films get watched past the first ten seconds.

The other half is craft. Work I have made has been watched over a billion times. That is a decade of finding out, in public, what holds attention and what loses it, and it is the instinct every cut on this page is built on.

Based in Prescott Valley, born and raised, and producing across Prescott, Sedona, Flagstaff, Phoenix, and all of Yavapai County.

01 · What We Produce

Thirty seconds or six episodes.

The format follows the job. A spot that has to land in fifteen seconds and a series that has to hold people for a season are built differently, and both start with the same question about who is watching.

  • 01

    TV & Digital Commercials

    Thirty and fifteen second spots built to run on broadcast, streaming, and paid social. Written, cast, shot, and cut in-house, with the vertical versions delivered alongside the broadcast master.

  • 02

    Brand Films

    The two to four minute film that explains who a company is and why anyone should care. Founder on camera, the work as it happens, the customers who stayed. The centerpiece of a website and the anchor for a year of shorter content.

  • 03

    Branded Series

    Multi-episode content built around one company: a custom home build across six episodes, a season on a ranch, a product made start to finish. Episodic work compounds. Every episode sends people back to the last one.

  • 04

    Narrative Short Films

    Scripted shorts, genre pieces, and story-driven spots that borrow from film instead of advertising. A horror short, a vintage kung fu homage, a Wes Anderson-style commercial. When a brand wants to be remembered rather than tolerated.

  • 05

    Recruiting & Culture Films

    For companies that cannot hire fast enough. A film that shows the actual crew, the actual shop, and the actual day, so the right people apply and the wrong ones self-select out.

  • Long-form?

    Interview-led documentaries for companies, families, and nonprofits are a separate discipline with their own page.

    Documentary films
02 · All In-House
Tex Kelly operating a cinema camera on sticks with headphones on during a production

No hand-offs, no subcontracted edit.

Most video projects lose their quality in the gaps between vendors. The writer never met the editor, the editor never saw the location, and the client explains the idea four times. Here the person who wrote it is the person who shot it and the person who cut it.

  • Concept and script, the idea, the structure, the words, written for how people actually watch, not for how a committee reads.

  • Pre-production, casting, locations, permits, schedules, and shot lists, handled before anyone shows up on set.

  • Cinema production, cinema cameras, cinema lenses, wireless audio recorded separately, and lighting sized to the scene.

  • FAA Part 107 aerial, licensed and insured drone work on a DJI Mavic 3 Pro, so the aerial is part of the plan and not an add-on.

  • Post-production, editorial, color grading in DaVinci Resolve, sound design and mix, motion graphics, and licensed music.

  • Delivery in every format, broadcast master, web, and vertical social cuts, plus a paid-media plan if you want the film to actually be seen.

03 — Selected Productions

Commercials, series, and shorts.

Scripted spots, a branded series teaser, and two narrative shorts. Click any thumbnail to play. The full wall of work lives on the videography page.

  • NFL Landscaping Commercial

    Scripted spot for a landscape company.

  • Ghostface Short Film

    Narrative horror short.

  • Vintage Kung Fu-Inspired Commercial

    Genre homage as a brand spot.

  • How the Cleanest Bottled Spring Water Is Made

    Series teaser for a branded documentary series.

  • The Most Cinematic Lawn Care Commercial

    Brand film for a landscape and lawn company.

  • Wes Anderson Style Landscaping Clip

    Stylized short-form brand piece.

04 · How It Works

Six steps, one point of contact.

You see the plan on paper before anything is shot, and a first cut before anything is final. Two rounds of revisions are in every scope.

  1. Discovery

    What the film is for, who watches it, and what has to be true for them at the end. Budget and scope get set here, in writing.

  2. Creative

    Concept, script, and a visual treatment you can react to. Nothing gets shot until you have seen the plan on paper.

  3. Pre-production

    Casting, locations, permits, schedule, shot list, crew. The boring part that decides whether shoot day is calm.

  4. Production

    One to several shoot days depending on scope. Cinema cameras, dedicated audio, aerial where the story needs scale.

  5. Post

    Assembly, first cut for your notes, fine cut, color, sound, graphics. Two rounds of revisions are built into every scope.

  6. Delivery and distribution

    Every format you need, and, if you want it, the media plan that puts the film in front of the people it was made for.

Productions are scoped per project rather than sold as packages. Shoot days, cast, locations, and deliverables set the number, and you have it in writing before a date is held.

Video Production · FAQs

Questions worth asking.

Production inquiries

What does the film need to do?

Send the idea, the audience, and where it will run. The first call is free and every inquiry gets a personal reply within 24 hours.

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