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University video marketing

Create Connection

Stories are the most powerful way to connect with your audience in today’s noisy world. Craft stories that speaks to your audience’s heart, and you’ll create a fan for life.

Win Attention

A story is wasted if it isn’t told well. Be unignorable with intentional visuals that both serve the story and make people sit up and notice.

Build the Brand that's worth talking about.

A good story, told well, can’t help but be shared. Using our Story Map method, we ensure your brand is a fountain of sharable stories.

Don’t just "make content."

Build connection.
The Creative Production Agency that transforms strangers into believers.

Here's how we do it:
[01]

strategy & creative

We always start with the question “What are you trying to achieve?” What are your goals? Your aspirations? Fromthere we strategize the best way to achieve that using creative storytelling.
[02]

production

From Pre-Production to Production to Post-Production, we've been delivering premier Cleveland Video Production since 2013.
[03]

measuring
results

We don’t stop after delivery. We work with our partners to track results, and use that date to ensure the next campaign can produce an even greater impact and return on investment.
[CASE STUDY]

Frederick Douglass Documentary

Frederick Douglass gave his first and only commencement speech at Western Reserve College in 1854. We were invited to where Douglass stood to recreate his historic speech through student performances. Just & Perfect won two gold Addy Awards and best documentary at the Chagrin Film Festival.
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[CASE STUDY]

Award-Winning Moen CES showcase

Moen has developed the first-ever Smart Water Network to provide protection against issues like extreme cold temperatures. We created a showcase for their product to be used at CES 2022.
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[CASE STUDY]

John Carroll University

John Carroll University began a new marketing campaign and needed to create video assets for use across a wide spectrum of platforms. This campaigned has spawned a two-year partnership and has given us the opportunity help hone their video strategy, and create compelling video to reach more students.
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[WHAT WE DO]

We're a Cleveland Production Agency with clients and partners around the globe.

We create films that make people feel, act, & remember your brand.

some films we made...
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[TESTIMONIALS]
Meg Colafella
Chief Communications Officer | Western Reserve Academy
We have partnered with The Story Is for a decade full of creativity, collaboration and results. Their client service is unsurpassed. They plug into our team and our community as if we work alongside them daily. They’re experts at every step of the process, from ideation to interaction with our students to the edit to the final product. Our most recent project was an award-winning documentary, and they absolutely nailed it. The project required management of talent, interviews, and production locally and nationally, and the team navigated complexities, making it look easy.
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Todd Morgano
Falls & Co | Partner & Senior Vice President
I’ve worked with The Story Is many times and keep coming back. The reason: Immanuel and his team are exceptional visual storytellers. Yes, the production value is top notch. The team and crews are talented, flexible, and easy to work with. But what I appreciate most are the ideas they bring to each project that make the ideas running around my head even better.
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Sarah Forrer
Assistant Vice President of Marketing & Communications | John Carroll University
I’ve hired The Story Is team for more than 7 years and across multiple institutions. They have our trust and continually delivers the highest level of video production. The Story Is team have proven to be a true partner and an invaluable extension to our marketing. At the heart of their business --and their name-- is storytelling, and it shows. Big and small, creative and corporate, I never doubt that they will deliver on their promise.
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Mark LaFontaine
Assistant Head of School for Advancement, Western Reserve Academy
Our goal was to create a short film to support the launch of Western Reserve Academy's most ambitious fundraising campaign ever. The team from The Story is created a piece that beautifully portrayed our campus and presented the inspiring perspectives of our students, faculty and alumni in a way that resonated deeply with everyone in our community. The film has been shown on our campus, across the country at alumni events and it has been seen in 15 countries outside the United States. The feedback has been inspiring.