Drone aerials that reveal what the listing actually is.

What you receive depends on whether the drone work is a stand-alone shoot or part of a larger brief. A stand-alone drone package includes roughly 8 to 12 edited cinematic aerial stills and a 30-second clip — enough to carry an aerial-led listing or marketing piece on its own. When the drone work is bundled into a full real estate or property video shoot, the aerials come as part of the combined deliverable, typically 4 to 6 stills plus 10 to 15 seconds of motion used to open or punctuate the cinematic edit. In every case the aerials are colour-graded to match the interiors, exteriors and ground video so the whole package feels like one shoot rather than separate pieces stitched together. Files are delivered in the same download package as the rest of the shoot, web-ready and print-ready.

For a standard residential property the aerial portion usually takes 30 to 45 minutes on site. Larger estates, golf-estate homes and developments that need multiple angles and altitudes typically run 60 to 90 minutes. The reason it is efficient is preparation: we plan the shot list before arriving, working from the property's geography — coastline, plot boundary, neighbouring landscape and the position of the sun — so drone flight time is spent capturing hero frames rather than exploring. Battery swaps are built into that window. If the aerial work is bundled with photography or ground video, it slots into the same visit, so there is no separate appointment to coordinate and no additional call-out.

Safety always comes first, and drones have real wind limits, so if conditions on the day are unsafe to fly we will not force it. The practical solution is simple: the ground photography and ground video proceed as planned on the day regardless, and we reschedule only the drone component for the next suitable weather window. That return visit for the aerials carries no surcharge — it is treated as completing the original booking, not a new shoot. Because we track forecasts ahead of every shoot, we can often flag a marginal day in advance and agree a plan with you before anyone travels, which keeps your launch timeline predictable.

Light overcast or a passing drizzle does not usually ground the drone — modern camera systems handle it, and a soft overcast sky can actually produce more flattering, even exteriors with no harsh shadows. Heavy rain or strong gusts are a different matter, and in that case we reschedule the drone work for the next clear window at no extra cost, exactly as we would for high wind.