Skyhook Media Ltd.
Professional Drone Camera Team, operating since 2013. Delivering high quality aerial camerawork for Dynamic Aerial Images. Fully qualified team, fully insured.
Feature Films, Commercials, TV, Travel & Corporate. Full range of aircraft and cameras, from Alexa Mini and ALTA, to Inspire and X5.
No I’ve not started teaching science… did a really fun shoot last week for at a 6th form college. Having dozens of willing actors really helped to bring the whole thing to life!
Looking forward to seeing the end result. Thanks to the whole team for their help.
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All electric today… a recent shoot with the at a hi-speed charge hub for and . Thanks for having us guys!
This car park may look benign, but it’s right next door to Birmingham International Airport . Given the tight turnaround times, we had to work hard to get the permissions signed off. Thanks to the watch manager at Birmingham ATC for being so flexible and accommodating 😊
RTK test day with Simon at . Fun times sussing out 3D Dolly on the Inspire 3- RTK really does make runs-on-rails repeatable shots a reality. Can’t wait to put it to work on set! cheers boys 👊
Up at 5, on location by 6:30, shooting at 8 for live broadcast, my best shot of the Severn Bore is up on BBC by 10:30! Not a bad morning 😊
Final shot of the day- dusk over Old Harry Rocks in Poole, what a beautiful spot. Thanks to the crew for pulling all the stops to deal with the dramas of this shoot day! More info when the story comes out…
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A beautiful day on the beach in Kent yesterday for a luxury swimwear advert. Found a lovely spot to sit in between shots!
Inspire 2 had a trip to the beach 🏖
A lovely shoot last week all over the for
Gorgeous weather all day and the factor 50 was in full force! Can’t wait to see the end result.
Big thank you to for the referral 👊
Chuffed to see this piece out in the open- a job we did for on a cold January morning!
Their studio setups are extremely impressive:
“Iris 1 sound stage is now available for hire. With 23,350 sq. ft of space and a cleared working height of 10.2 m, this is the perfect place to shoot your next high-end drama or film. We're situated right on the banks of the Great Union Canal and with easy access from London Heathrow, Soho and White City”.
Just picked up this little beauty for free! Been loaned an electric van for 8 weeks, thank you . Of course there’s - I have to drive around a rolling billboard promoting the scheme and in general. But I can live with that!
Big camera & lens day - flying Alexa Mini LF with Cooke full frame Anamorphics on a feature film up north yesterday. More to come! Props to the crew, and thanks to for their kit & support 💪
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As an ex- myself, it was so nice to go back to in June and shoot aerials of its iconic locations on this film for .
It promotes the to a global audience and was broadcast in many Commonwealth nations leading up to the .
Thanks for having us along - it was orroyte babs!
And thanks for the referral 👊
There's been lots of flying through buildings recently! Here’s a selection of some of our indoor work.
FPV drones are such an amazing tool for providing a seamless tour through any indoor space. And when you have people interacting, all the better!
Out flying in the lovely seaside village of Portpatrick, SW Scotland a few weeks ago. This region is known as the ‘Scottish Riviera’ due to the fact that the Gulf Stream warms the area all year round, giving rise to almost tropical trees and plants. Not a bad place to be on the summer Solstice! Video to come 🔜
Welcome to our newest team member! Sam will be handling edits, stock footage and copywriting. And he nailed the ‘fold the helipad into thirds’ challenge in less than 2 minutes! 👏
Channelling the inner dragonfly... FPV footage to come soon from a documentary project on rewilding taking place in a village with the most Westcountry-sounding name ever! 🖼️
What a beautiful day we had for some central London flights late last month. Luckily the 5 tons of paperwork required to fly here legitimately, was all done on rainy days! 🌧️
A massive thank you to everyone involved in this sizeable project.
Digital + billboard campaign to come out soon for a certain iconic location...
Drone shoots after dark...
Since we're in the depths of winter, I thought it would be useful to write a short article on the top five things to consider when planning a drone night shoot.
I hope it will make a nice cheat sheet for any productions that have night shoots coming up.
Interested to hear your thoughts - anything else you'd add?
https://skyhook.tv/media/drone-shoot-at-night-blog/
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We had a big job late last year, assisting and on a 10-day technology trial in the middle of Portsmouth called CUE21.
We had 2 teams with drones in the air simultaneously, providing calibration and ‘target provision services’ to several different counter-UAS systems positioned around the city (don’t worry, we weren’t actually being shot at! 😅)
All of our drones were flown at some point, from the Freefly ALTA 6 to the DJI Mini 2, to assist Dstl in gathering data on how their prototype drone-tracking equipment performs in an urban environment.
A big thank you to and for their assistance in the planning of this multi-location set of flights in the city, some of which were in the middle of Freshers week!
NEW WORK - Tonight 8pm on BBC 1! What a privilege it was to do the drone filming on this documentary for , where Sir David Attenborough takes us through the discovery of five ice age Mammoths which were unearthed in the after 200,000 years. archaeologists plus scientists and paleontologists help us learn, was their demise the work of Neanderthals?
This was an awesome shoot to work on, the launch film for the Cross Turismo, ’s new all-electric tourer. What a beast. Thanks to for having us along! Many toys on this one, including ’s Agito in full off-road mode. Tucked away in the woods next to hallowed
It was a pleasure to work on this juicy music video earlier in the year for Aurora Dee Raynes - released today on Tru Thoughts.
Thanks to old buddy Stephen Touchy Subject Raynes for asking me along - shoot involved some single-op car tracking and nice tree-based jib shots, among others.
Quality beats and velvety smooth vocals from this awesome duo.
Aurora Dee Raynes - Crazy That You Love “Crazy That You Love”, is the first single taken from Aurora Dee Raynes debut album ‘Invisible Things’ (out 26th November). Buy/Stream "Crazy That You Love";...
Gorgeous dawn shoot at Emmanuel College, Cambridge this morning for Bristol compadre . Perfect flying conditions! Thanks for having us along ☺️
Here's the Porsche launch film we worked on - an awesome project to be part of.
The Taycan Cross Turismo, a fully electric sports tourer. Fancy one of these in your garage?
‘Is Drone on comms?’ -Yep. ..