Cinematic · Observational · Intimate
A video production studio that tells the stories worth keeping.
© 2026 Story By Blank
Documentary
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Long-form and short-form. We embed, we observe, we capture what's real.
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Narrative Film
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Scripted short films and brand narratives. Full pipeline from development to final cut.
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Brand Narrative
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Story-driven content that makes brands impossible to ignore. Built around a single, irresistible idea.
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Short Film
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Festival-ready short films. We handle scripting, production, and post. You submit.
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Campaign Film
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Mini-series and campaign content built to reach people and move them to act.
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Photography
Editorial stills, on-set photography, and film-look portraits, shot alongside the project. The poster, the press images, the frames that carry the story into print.
Passion projects we're working on
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A documentary following three high school coaches in the final season before retirement. Commissioned for a statewide athletic foundation. Selected for regional festival circuit.
Documentary Short
18 min
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Scripted brand video for a boutique hospitality group. Shot on 16mm. Told entirely from the perspective of a room before the guest arrives. Screened at brand launch events in four cities.
Brand Narrative
6 min
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Profile of a 72-year-old marathon runner training for his 40th consecutive race. Client-commissioned legacy film. Distributed through the client's foundation and submitted to three festivals.
Documentary
24 min
Why work with us
Original Films projects are a different kind of engagement. We're not executing a brief. We're developing something with you. That means we bring creative opinions, push back when needed, and protect the story through the whole process.
Every Original Films project begins with a development phase. We help shape the story, the angle, the structure, the approach, before a single frame is shot.
Color grading, sound design, and original score where the story calls for it. The final film is built to stand on its own in any context.
You stay close to the project throughout. Review cuts, weigh in on music, shape the arc. This is your film. We're the ones who know how to make it.
How it works
Script · Production · Post · Delivery
Step 01
Tell us everything. The story, the people, the moment, what you want it to feel like. We start with a conversation, video or in person. Listen first, then ask what we need to.
Step 02
Mood boards, shot lists, the rhythm of the film, mapped out before the camera turns on. Same care on every project.
Step 03
Cameras out, crew in. The shoot is built around making people comfortable in front of the lens, because that's where the human stuff lives.
Step 04
First cut, seven days after the shoot. Color, sound, polish. Two rounds of revisions. Final film via private link, in every format you need.
Story By Blank · Original Films
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Concepts · Development · Production · built from scratch
Questions people actually ask
Documentaries vary widely with length, shoot days, and how much archival or travel is involved, so most land anywhere from $8,000 into the tens of thousands. Tell us the story and scope and we give you a real number and a plan to fund it.
Yes. We shoot and cut music videos for artists across North Dallas, Frisco, and Dallas, from performance-driven pieces to narrative concepts, built around the song and made to live on YouTube and socials.
Yes. We write, shoot, and finish scripted short films to festival spec, with the color, sound, and deliverables submissions require. Several of our pieces were made specifically for the festival circuit.
We do. Branded documentaries and nonprofit impact films are some of our favorite work, real stories told with a documentary eye rather than an ad. They build trust in a way a commercial cannot.
Yes. We are based in North Dallas and shoot across Frisco, McKinney, Allen, Dallas, Aubrey, and Denton, and we travel across the US when the story lives somewhere else.
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