Drone Photography & Filming and Aerial Surveys & Inspections in Oxfordshire

Serving commercial, marine, event, and construction industries in Oxford with aerial films, photos, property and land surveys, and video editing and marketing.

CAA Approved Pilots

National Drone Coverage

Serious About Safety

Insured to £5million

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A team of CAA-certified drone pilots, spotters, filmmakers, photographers, and digital marketers working in Oxfordshire, with permissions for professional commercial work in the UK and overseas.

We capture unique aerial and ground visuals and help you put them to good use through our full-service digital marketing packages.

Our impeccable safety record has earned us special CAA permissions, allowing us to fly further, higher, and closer than other drone companies, in more places, circumstances, and conditions. We’re also members of Drone Safe Register.

We’re a family-run business, headquartered in Portsmouth and operating all over the UK. We’re very well-connected within the drone, filmmaking, and advertising industries, and can assemble larger teams for projects of all scales.

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Our Services

Video Editing

We can create informative and entertaining videos for your projects and campaigns, edited for every format: from Instagram Stories to the big screen.

Ground Shoots

Your ground visuals need the same level of creative strategy and expertise as your aerial imagery. We have the equipment and experience to capture your ideas perfectly.

Cinema Quality

Your projects 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.

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 for your videos.

All-Day
Aerial Filming

We’re equipped with battery charging generators to keep our drones running all day. Ideal for lengthy conferences and cons, sunrise-to-sunset festivals, and all-day sports schedules.

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.

Interviews &
Voiceovers

We’ll write and record multi-angle interviews, to be spliced with other footage. We can also record voice-overs with you or professional narrators of all ages, accents, and genders.

All-Day Filming

We’re equipped with portable battery charging generators to keep our drones running all day. Battery swaps take less than a minute, so not a moment of your shoot will be missed.

360º Panoramas
and Videos

Showcase your business with 360 degree photos and videos, from ground and air. They’re a key part of online marketing. Boost engagement, click-throughs, and sales.

Motion Graphics

From social-ready text overlays to animated segments stylized after your business’ visual identity, we’ll use titles, transitions, and motion graphics to tell your brand’s story.

Studio Shoots &
Green Screens

Enrich your interview, training, and explainer videos with clean backgrounds, pro studio lighting, and green screens, on-location or at Solent Sky Services’ headquarters.

Team Training

We can train your team in integrating drone videos into project workflows, both from a creative perspective (edits, campaigns) and a technical viewpoint (file formats, processing 360º footage).

Oxfordshire Drone Case Study: AVS Fencing Supplies at BBC Countryfile Live

AVS Fencing Supplies approached us about increasing their organic social media engagement at the perfect time. They were ready to deliver materials for a build at BBC Countryfile Live 2018, which took place at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Before long, we were planning and storyboarding a series of videos to document the project for AVS’ digital marketing channels.

Video #1: The Adventure Begins

We split the over-arcing narrative of the videos into four smaller parts. The first video was filmed at Stonescapes in Cranleigh, where the materials were delivered and where preparation work began. The video includes a JCB drone fly-through and a suave wipe transition tracked to the opening of a van door! We created an adventurous narrative throughout the series to reflect the exciting nature of the Famous Five books that inspired the garden build.

Video #2: Day One of Construction

Our second video captured the first day of the build, and featured the construction crew from BNE Landscapes. A spot of slow-mo sawing, low-angled focus shifts, rotary time-lapses, and (of course) ducks waddling through the frame made for a strong social-facing video. AVS requested text overlays to highlight each step of the construction process.

Video #3: Journey to Blenheim

This is our personal favourite from the series. When the drone shot of Blenheim Palace kicks in backed by an orchestral swell, it’s a powerful moment. ‘Journey to Blenheim’ captures the delivery of AVS’ materials from Stonescapes to BBC Countryfile Live. Scene-setting shots like the aerial view of Blenheim Palace and the close-up of our event wristbands were key, and the piece of wood saying ‘AVS was ‘ere’ was a fun touch!

Video #4: The Whole Project

We closed out the series of four videos with a beginning-to-end story featuring footage from Stonescapes and both days of the Famous Five Garden build. There are interviews with Louise, the transport manager from AVS Fencing Supplies, and Adrian, the company’s marketing manager, and Ed from BNE Landscapes walks the viewer through how AVS’ materials were put to use. There’s a time-lapse from atop a mastpole, which we swiftly sourced after being unable to gain proper flight permissions from event organisers. Quickly finding solutions when flights are a no-go is the Solent Sky Services way!