Drone Marketing Videos and Promotional Aerial Photography
Commercial aerial and ground film production and photography for social media advertising, corporate marketing campaigns, and broadcast ads
At the heart of most of our services — event filmmaking, maritime photography, travel and tourism videos, film and TV productions, etc. — is marketing. You want to work with a team of professional drone filmmakers who have a firm understanding of digital marketing and the modern media landscape.
We’ll shoot and edit professional promotional films for your corporate advertising, social ad strategies, and crowdfunding campaigns. We’ve worked with small businesses and large brands on ground and aerial videos, scriptwriting, and social media marketing.
Solent Sky Services can manage all aspects of your projects, or work as part of a larger team of advertising experts and agencies to produce videos and content that align with your brand identity and marketing objectives.
Qualified FPV Pilots
You’ll be working with legally-approved professional pilots. We hold operational authorisation, granted to us by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) . We’re also a member of Drone Safe Register.
Full-Service
Marketing
We’ve worked on marketing campaigns of all scopes. We’ll expertly integrate aerial visuals into your social ads, sales funnels, and content and SEO marketing strategies.
Cinema Quality
Your campaigns deserve cutting-edge quality. For aerial, we use Zenmuse X7 lenses docked on our DJI Inspire 3 and X9 full frame sensor. On the ground, we use Blackmagic, RED and Fuji Film cameras.
National Coverage
Our pilots and ground team work all over the UK, in the busiest and the most remote places. We’re familiar with staying in cities far and wide for multi-week production schedules.
Serious About Safety
Risk assessments, pre-flight plans, specialist PPE, etc. — we ensure every shoot is safe. We closely adhere to (and regularly teach!) the UK’s drone code. You’re in safe hands.
All-Day
Aerial Filming
We’re equipped with portable battery charging generators to keep our drones running all day. Not a moment of your shoot missed.
FPV Drone
Flights
We’re qualified for first-person view drone flights, using our cinewhoops and 360º camera setup to capture exciting freestyle aerial footage.
Behind the
Scenes
Our ground crew use Blackmagic cameras, RØDE mics, DJI stabilisers, and other gear to tell the story behind the story. Ideal extra content for your social media.
Drone Video Editing
for Marketing
We can create informative and entertaining videos for your online campaigns, edited for every format: from standard posts to vertical Stories.
2D Animation for
Drone Videos
From social-ready text overlays to animated segments stylized after your brand’s visual identity, we’ll use 2D motion graphics to enrich your videos.
Ground-to-Air
Communication
Our whole team is equipped with Eartec headsets, so we remain in constant contact for the entirety of each shoot. Good for safety. Great for collaboration.
Multi-Date Deals
for Long Productions
Lengthy production schedule? No problem. We’re open to negotiating discounted rates for multi-week, multi-location shoots, suited to your needs.
Case Study: Staggeringly Good
Portsmouth-based brewery Staggeringly Good make beer for ‘people who love dinosaurs’. In 2018, they approached us to produce a video for their crowdfunding campaign. It had to incentivise their fans to invest in the brewery’s expansion, while capturing their unique brand of humour. And that’s how we found ourselves filming an American biker dude rolling around town on a beer-dispensing dinosaur fashioned from a mobility scooter.
Teaser Video: DINORIDER
Much of the shooting for both the teaser video and the main crowdfunder film took place over two consecutive days, followed by four or five days spent editing. The teaser was an 80s-tinged production backed by some synthwave magic. It served as an initial announcement that the crowdfunding campaign would soon be launching, built up hype for the main video, and hinted at the ‘TriceraTap’ — the aforementioned beer-dispensing mobility scooter.
Main Video: TRICERATAP
Shooting the main video was incredibly fun. The first half features the TriceraTap riding past all the local independent businesses who Staggeringly Good have worked with over the years, culminating in an epic scene in which a brass band plays the Jurassic Park theme. All the while, key details from the crowdfunder campaign appear over the action. The second half of the video features the Staggeringly Good crew further explaining what investor money would fund, and what they’d get in return.
A Jurassic success
Staggeringly Good raised £300,000, smashing past their crowdfunding goal. They’re now investing all their efforts into realising their expansion plan. The video was viewed tens of thousands of times, and was an integral part of the campaign’s success.
More of our commercial/promotional work
Video: Plantitecture: aerial video for ANS Global’s ‘living walls’ in Manchester
One of the worldwide leaders in urban biodiversity, ANS Global, asked Solent Sky Services to capture a drone’s-eye view of some of their ‘living walls’ — beautiful plant-covered façades. ANS Global wanted a video showcase to feature on their website and to share with their clients.
Video: Bus Driver recruitment videos for Stagecoach South
Local bus operator, Stagecoach reached out asking if we could produce a recruitment video. After meeting the staff down at the depot we set about storyboarding videos and project planning. Here’s one of the videos we produced. Full blog coming soon complete with FPV fly through of their depot.
Video: DHL Global Forwarding loads 30 Machines in a first of it’s kind operation and ships from UK to Australia
DHL Industrial Projects supported Terex Corporation, a global manufacturer of materials processing machinery and aerial work platforms, with transportation of heavy machines from Southampton, UK, to Brisbane, Australia.
We were commissioned to produce photo and video content to showcase the project.
Kind words from our clients
“We worked with Solent Sky Services to create a case study video of our work at The Mailbox development in Stockport. Throughout the whole process, Michael and Sara were quick to respond, helpful, and happy to answer any questions. They also took over liaising with our clients, who were being interviewed, which saved so much time! And they were happy for us to not be on site on the day. This made the process smooth and required no effort from us! We discussed what we wanted to see, the feel we wanted to create with the finished video, our audience, and the points we wanted to address, and that was all that was needed for them to go away and do what they do. We were involved in every step, but there wasn't the back-and-forward communications with all parties which takes up so much time. Alongside that, our package came at good value, and we now have some excellent footage and a finished case study video to showcase our work. We look forward to working with them again on projects in the future!”
— ANS Global
“Mike has been tremendous in working with us on what is a hugely important project. His eye for a shot is fantastic and the equipment he uses is top-tier. More than that, though, he's been fantastic to work with and has been incredibly patient with us when things haven't gone right on our side. He's been very generous with his time, too, and we couldn't recommend Solent Sky Services enough!”
— Kristian Balkin
Wightlink Ferries
“Solent Sky Services are a really friendly and professional group of people. The images they capture are amazing and I look forward to working with them more in the future!”
— Karleigh Brown
KSM Telecom
“Mike and Sara have produced some fantastic aerial video and photographs of Portsmouth City Council events including Armed Forces Day, Southsea Food Festival, and the International Kite Festival, enabling us to market the events more effectively. Mike and Sara are both lovely and keen to understand our requirements whilst also being able to offer their professional advice based on their extensive knowledge and experience to ensure they achieved what we were after. We really enjoyed working with them, and look forward to continuing to do so in the future.”
— Lydia Mellor
Portsmouth City Council
“Solent Sky Services, thank you for your excellent support during our LEGO Education Studio opening! You have captured the results we hoped for with ease, whilst being professional and invisible — both qualities that ensured that the event was naturally-documented. Great work.”
— Gavin Lumsden
Essential Teaching UK
“We worked with Michael on a large website project, where we required high-quality drone photography. Michael is an excellent drone pilot and has some of the best drones and camera equipment available. Michael is very flexible; when the actual scope of time ran over, he stayed focused on getting the job done. Michael and Solent Sky Services are a very professional company, providing excellent drone photography. They are now our go-to for drone photography.”
— Katie Anne Black
The Just Brand
“The team provide outstanding film and photography to support commercial businesses by using their creative experience in image capturing and drone photography. They offer high-quality visuals to support branding and company identity. A very knowledge and friendly team that demonstrate a pure passion for filming and photography.”
— Kev Bradshaw
Creative Learning Specialist at Havant & South Downs College
“Professional and good to work with. The team are really helpful and the final video was excellent. Thanks everyone!”
— Snows BMW Portsmouth
“The guys did a great job of working to a tight deadline with our bizarre creative ideas and requests. The final edit and product was everything we needed to deliver on our project.”
— Paul Judd
Staggeringly Good Beer
“We couldn’t have hoped for the project to have run better. Thank you very much.”
— Adrian Harwood
Marketing Manager at AVS Fencing Supplies
“Many thanks to Mike at Solent Sky Services for the video for our catering company. Very pleased with the work and happy to recommend.”
