Fueling Your Brand’s Journey with Reel Innovation, Real Growth

The Reel Return, LLC is all about building lasting relationships and bringing your brand to life. With a blend of creative energy from young professionals and the wisdom of seasoned advisors, we offer a suite of services—from professional photography and video production to business consulting, graphic design, web content production, and social media marketing.

Our mission? To help you stand out, amplify your voice, and expand your network. Whether you’re an artist, author, documentarian, or business owner, we deliver high-quality, tailored solutions that turn ideas into impact.

Let's craft your brand’s story and watch it thrive.

Who We Are

The Reel Return, LLC is a service based business focused on building long-term relationships with clients and providing solutions to maintain, improve, and promote their brand.

We deliver the best combination of production, development, and creation by utilizing young professionals and consulting our advisors/ senior executives to deliver awesome and cohesive products & services.

We make every effort for exposure and expanding our client's network. Thus, our clients work and products are also featured on our website and social media pages.

Our servicing palette allows us to meet your every need:

  • Professional Photography (30mp with multi-use export options)

  • Business & Brand Consulting

  • Video Production (Up to 4K@30fps, without equipment rental)

  • Graphic Design

  • Social Media Marketing

  • Copy Writing… And More!

Real Business Starts With Your Marketing!

Marketing is the heartbeat of your organization. You could have the best mastermind to all of the best parts, but without a steady beat of the marketing drum, you won’t be successful. Marketing is the graphics you need. Marketing is the videos and photos you need. Marketing is analyzing your audience and making sure you are retaining clients, further building those customer relationships.

The best advice we could give you, however, is that you partner with us to bring your vision to life!

Here at The Reel Return, LLC, we utilize a project-management approach to ensure you maximize the potential of your project. Master your marketing with us today! Our consultation starts with a guided discussion based on the needs of the client. Following, we will provide a schedule of future meetings, milestones, and resources needed from your business to effectively generate solutions to your problems.

  • It all starts here! Your marketing plan is essential to execute the next quarter, half-year, or at best the full year. During this phase, we will conduct a brand audit to analyze your current production items in your brand kit and your potential needs. We must review your current audience digest, messaging,

  • The strategy stage incorporates a deep dive into creating your campaigns, ironing out your pre-production in planning your graphic, photo, and video needs. All budgetary items will need to be approved at this stage in its final meeting.

  • This is where the magic happens! We are ready to produce, capture, and create the moments, promotions, testimonials, advertisements, and more for all of your project's needs.

  • The distribution and promotion stage is a vital pivot point to correctly target and position your recent content in front of your audience and potential or current customers.

    This is where budgetary items set in the strategy stage such as ad spend and advertising costs must be approved and executed.

  • Data is everything! This stage is essential to review the effectiveness of your project. We'll review all of the data from the different mediums that your business is using to generate data-driven decisions as to your audience digest and how, where, and when to position your content in front of new prospects and more!

  • This stage is the sweet spot! You've reached your customer, engaged with them, piqued their interest, and now you've met your goal! The work isn't finished even though they've made a purchase, supported your cause, or attended your event.

    How have you ironed out next steps or created a system to retain their business and build a relationship with them for continuous support?

    Don't have the answer? Well, that's why you chose us. This is one of the most valued steps in moving that customer into an ambassador for your brand.

High-End Quality You Can't Find Just Anywhere...

Photography

We offer professional photography services ranging from portraits to event photography, capturing every moment with precision. Our 30MP+ high-quality images, with multi-use export options, bring your brand’s vision to life. Let us frame your story with creativity and clarity.

Videography

We supply you with everything to bring your vision to life, from conception to birth. Our comprehensive media services encompass planning and production to post-production, including stunning animations. Our team handles every step with precision, creating seamless, engaging content that elevates your brand.

Audio Engineering

We specialize in videography that harmonizes stunning visuals with professional sound engineering. From the initial shoot to post-production, our team ensures every audio element complements the imagery, creating a seamless, immersive experience.

Graphic Design

Our graphic design services combine creative visuals with multimedia elements, enhancing the impact of your brand. We specialize in packaging designs like annual reports and flyers, incorporating dynamic components that engage your audience.

Public Relations

Public relations is more than just spreading a message—it's about creating connections. We strategically position your brand to foster trust, engagement, and visibility.

Media Training

Our comprehensive media training services empower you to confidently communicate your brand’s message across multiple platforms. We provide essential tools and strategies to help you navigate interviews, press conferences, and public appearances with ease. Our training also covers podcast development, public speaking, and becoming an authoritative content creator.

 
  • Work with us to produce your podcast! You get to take advantage of our full operating capacity utilizing camera and video equipment or maintain a strict audio presence or mix and mingle!

    When you book with us, we are able to help guide your plans for advertising, promotions, and audience retention.

  • We offer premium quality, industry standard green screen video production services to create engaging and riveting content for your desired target audience.

    Creating a product that will further your success in your business's marketing objectives is our prerogative.

  • Build an effective plan for a multi-layered social media marketing campaign that engages your audience, brings awareness to your product, event, cause and more.

    Working with us to build your content from the ground up is our specialty. We work closely with you to navigate adding multi-media to your business and organization for short-form and long-form video production, while incorporating what you need specifically. This service can utilize scripting, voiceovers, and other elements that we bring to life!

    With multi-media comes access to create a multi-platform experience for your user/viewer. You have total flexibilty to engage in multiple ways, and if you utilize our green screen production services, you can have flexibility in providing a variety of different backgrounds while staying in one location to shoot!

  • At The Reel Return LLC, we specialize in Reel Moments, short-form videography designed to grab attention in under 60 seconds. Whether for TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube Shorts, we create dynamic, engaging content that connects with your audience instantly. From concept to editing, our team delivers videos that showcase your brand’s personality, spark emotions, and drive engagement. Reel Moments are the perfect way to capture quick, memorable content that stands out in today’s fast-paced digital world, boosting visibility and fostering stronger connections with your audience.

  • Epic Stories by The Reel Return LLC bring your brand’s narrative to life through long-form videography. Perfect for promotional videos, documentaries, or brand films, we craft compelling stories that engage and captivate your audience. Our team works closely with you from concept to final cut to deliver a polished video that connects on a deeper level. Epic Stories allow your brand to share its journey, values, and expertise, fostering stronger relationships with viewers and creating a lasting impact.

A Message From Our CEO

"Here at The Reel Return, our commitment is to deliver the highest quality service and products to our clients. We have a phenomenal team of young professionals, while our Q & C advisory board is made up of award-winning, demonstrated veterans in the journalism, marketing, and public relations industries. We work diligently to create a bond between our clients because marketing and their business's aesthetic, both on the digital and natural space, is 90% of their sales. The first place to start, however, is with our premiere digital strategy and consulting call. We look forward to growing with you".

-Matthew Eaglin-Daniels, University Of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

President & Chief Executive Officer

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Read Real Testimonials From Reel Clients

  • Denica Newson

    A photoshoot with The Reel Return is YOUR TIME. Time to shine the light that is already in you and shine bright.

    When I saw my pictures with The Reel Return, I felt as though I was looking at a different woman. She was glowingly beautiful, a gracious Black queen with her head held high and her heels higher.

    I could not be more satisfied with my professional photography experience. I recommend The Reel Return to anyone that wants to add high qualitative value to their personal or business brand.

  • Allena Robinson

    Great company to work with! The Reel Return, LLC designed several flyers, shirts, and logos for me and the organizations I represent. We couldn't be happier with the work they did.

    From an artistic standpoint they did a wonderful job of taking our ideas and expressing them visually. On the business side, they were very professional, met all deadlines and kept all projects within quoted prices.

    Matthew, CEO, is very talented and business savvy which is a very rare combo to find.

    Overall, it was a great experience and we will continue to use The Reel Return, LLC for all of our creative content. Very professional and prompt, highly recommended for all kinds of design wor

  • Heilema Gray

    The Reel Return, LLC designed the graphics for my single release. The work is absolutely amazing!!!

    Matt (CEO) did a wonderful job of taking my ideas and expressing them visually. He was also very professional, polite and business savvy.

    Overall, it was a excellent experience and I will continue to use The Reel Return, LLC for all of my creative content in the future! Highly recommended for all kinds of design work.

  • Anissa Jones

    I highly recommend The Reel Return! Matthew was very professional, creative and our photos turned out great. You won’t regret it!

  • Madison Smith

    Did an amazing job! Was great at giving instructions for posing me to look my best! I felt like a real beauty at the Reel Return.

  • Brian Brown

    Excellent customer service with attention to detail. I would recommend them for all of your graphic and media needs!!!!

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