Landscaping and garden room video
A finished garden is almost impossible to photograph. It is too big for one frame and too detailed for a wide shot. Aerial gives you the layout and FPV walks somebody through it, which between them is the only honest way to show what you built.
What a landscaping film has to do
The layout from above
Levels, curves, planting beds and how the whole plot works. This is the shot that sells the design rather than the materials.
A flight through it
Through the bifolds, across the lawn, up the steps and round the gazebo in one move, the way somebody would actually walk it.
The detail
Porcelain cuts, limestone borders, the joint between two materials. The things other landscapers will notice.
Before and after
Filmed from the same positions at the start and the end. Nothing else converts like it.
Lighting and evening
A garden that was designed to be used at night should be filmed at night.
The client talking
Filmed on the finished garden, while they are still pleased with it.
Questions from this trade
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As soon as it is clean and the planting has settled. For a big scheme it is worth waiting a few weeks so the planting does not look newly dropped in.
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Yes. You lose the before and after, which is a shame, but a finished-garden film is still the strongest thing on most landscapers' feeds.
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Flights are planned to keep the frame on the garden. If a neighbour's property is unavoidable we frame it out or cut it.
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We move the shoot. There is no penalty for weather.
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Monthly retainers are £950 and £1,450, both with a three month minimum. A standalone project film is £650. Everything is listed on the pricing page, including what is in each package.
Got a job worth filming?
Tell me what the project is, where it is and roughly when. I will tell you what I would shoot and what it would cost, before you commit to anything.