Media and Production
Drone Filming for Brands, Businesses, Agencies and Marketing Teams
Specialist aerial cinematography from a Portsmouth crew built around flying, with full production in-house when the brief needs it.
Since 2017 we've been trusted by brands, businesses and agencies to capture their stories from the air and on the ground. We're proud of every project and grateful to the clients who keep coming back and recommending us to others.
Book us direct or through your agency, for drone work only or the full production, with white-label available. You get the same crew and the same standard either way.
If you're coming to us for the first time, or someone has pointed you our way, you're in good hands. We'll talk through your brief, take care of the detail and keep you updated from the first call to the final cut.
We're based in Portsmouth and work across the UK and overseas.
How we work
From brief to final cut
Recce and planning
We talk through the brief, assess the location and choose the right aircraft for the shots and the site.
Permissions and RAMS
We handle CAA and airspace permissions, landowner consent, risk assessments and flight plans, and share the paperwork before the shoot.
Shoot day
A dedicated pilot and camera operator, with a focus puller and ground crew when the brief calls for it.
Edit and delivery
Graded, edited and delivered in every format you need, with same-day turnaround available.
Three very different briefs
A DJ, a dinosaur and a heavy lift
Fatboy Slim: Live Aerial Visuals at On The Beach Brighton
Live aerial visuals streamed straight to the screens behind Fatboy Slim, across four nights at On The Beach Brighton.
View the project
60,000,000 years in the making: Staggeringly Good Beer crowdfunding video
Helping a dinosaur-themed brewery crowdfund £302,810
View the projectMulti-country heavy lift logistics with DHL
Documenting DHL’s heavy-lift work across three ports and five nations
View the projectWhy Choose Us for Marketing and Commercial
Drone Specialists Since 2017
Dual operator drone creative movements since 2018
The Right Drone for the Job
From the Inspire 3 with DL primes to FPV, smaller drones and heavy-lift
Full Production In-House
Ground camera on RED, lighting, direction and post production
Built for Agencies
Drone only, full production or white-label under your brand
Permissions Handled
PDRA01 Operational Authorisation, GVC, A2 CofC and £10m insurance
Same-Day Turnaround
Same-day delivery available for time-critical campaigns
Rated 5 Stars on Google
From 77 client reviews
Award-Winning
Three industry awards, including Portsmouth Business of the Year 2023
Featured Projects
What Clients Say

"As part of the Portsmouth 100 celebrations, the city council were looking for a creative partner to develop a film to explain a project to the wider public, and to capture it in action. The project was an innovative attempt to capture a photograph of massed residents of the city from the air as a satellite passed over in its orbit. The significance was that the technology and innovation in the satellite was made in Portsmouth, by Airbus, a major business based here. Making a complex idea accessible and exciting to the wider public was the brief, and previous work with Solent Sky Services indicated that they would have exactly the right vision and skills to create the piece for us. The team at SSS worked with us to build the brief and met with all partners to the project to ensure the film perfectly explained the mechanics of the project, but also created the right buzz. The explainer film was used as a trailer to build excitement for the event, and then the capture of the activity itself was used at other events including the summer reception celebrating Portsnouth P100 events, The films were high quality, engaging and importantly, perfectly tailored to the different formats we needed, including clipped to social media-friendly reels. We would have no hesitation in recommending Solent Sky Services, who worked to a difficult brief on short timescales and with a high level of event complexity to deliver engaging and exciting content that showcased the city and the event to the best possible effect. "
Kelly Nash
Corporate Performance Manager - Portsmouth City Council

"JCB and The JCB Golf and Country Club enlisted the experience and expertise of Solent Sky Services to bring a new genre of video to our audiences, with the skill of Solent Sky Services to plan, shoot and edit all within an extremely tight deadline, the team wasted no time in getting stuck in and exploring the 240 acre golf course, all from 4am in the morning! The whole team go above and beyond to deliver exceptional flight skills, customer service and jaw dropping content. It is clear Solent Sky Services are passionate and the industry leader with what they do, and we wouldn’t have had the success we did, without their expertise. We look forward to working on more exciting projects with the team in the future"
Harry Butson
Content Producer - JCB
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