Luxury motor yacht moored at a Vancouver marina, aerial view by Scenic Sky Visuals

Cinematic Yacht Media · Vancouver, BC

Listings that move.
Brands that look the part.

Film-grade aerial, onboard and stills production built for luxury brokerages. One creative eye. One workflow. One consistent grade across every deliverable — so the vessel and your brokerage are presented at the standard your clients expect.

The work

Cinematic, end to end.

Drone aerials, gimbal-stabilised video and HDR stills, bound into a single cohesive look.

ICG 669
International Cinematographers Guild member
Advanced
Transport Canada RPAS · controlled airspace
$5M
Drone liability coverage
Feature
Screen-credited DOP · Zero Contact (Anthony Hopkins)

The cinematic difference

A yacht isn't sold on its spec sheet. It's sold on how it feels to be aboard.

Buyers at this level aren't comparing bullet points — they're imagining the life. Immersive, cinematic media puts them in it: the light on the water, the lines of the hull, the welcome of a salon that feels like home. That feeling is what moves a vessel.

Immersion

FPV cinematography puts the viewer aboard. Dynamic, moving orbits trace the lines of the hull, then a single unbroken flight carries them in off the open water, across the aft cockpit and into the salon. An arrival that can't be duplicated any other way — and one the buyer will remember.

Film-grade

Production-level cinematography held to a feature-set standard. Aerial, on-deck and stills are all captured and graded to one cohesive look, so the whole presentation reads as a single, polished piece — not a patchwork of clips from different hands.

Desire

Most marine media documents a vessel. Cinematic media makes a buyer want it — the difference between a listing that informs and one that sells.

The approach

One production. One look. No seams.

Most listings are stitched together from a photographer, a separate videographer and stock-feel edits. Working with a single cinematographer means the air, the deck and the detail shots all share one grade and one eye.

Air

Aerial that earns the listing

Hero exteriors, scale-revealing orbits and under-way tracking shots — flown legally in controlled airspace and fully insured.

Deck

Onboard cinematography

Gimbal-stabilised interior and exterior sequences with a zero-distortion ultra-wide lens that keeps tight cabins clean and true.

Detail

Stills & the grade

High-resolution HDR photography optimised for YachtWorld and your site — colour-matched to the film so the whole package is one voice.

The full toolkit — one crew

Everything a listing needs, from one creative eye.

No juggling a photographer, a separate videographer and a colourist. Every frame is captured and graded together — led by the one capability almost no one in the marine market can deliver.

FPV fly-onboard reveal signature
Licensed aerial cinematography
Gimbal-stabilised ground & interior
HDR stills
One unified colour grade

Production tiers

Three levels, matched to the listing.

Every tier delivers a complete, listing-ready package. Per-foot pricing scales with the vessel — quoted before we shoot, no surprises.

Dockside
A complete, professional listing presentation for standard brokerage listings.
$750Flat fee · vessels up to ~45 ft
  • 50+ edited HDR interior & exterior stills
  • 10+ dockside drone photographs
  • 60-second branded cinematic sequence
  • Vertical social reel with broker intro
  • YachtWorld-optimised image set
Delivery · 72 hours
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Most requested
Cinematic
Full listing film plus aerials and stills — the workhorse for serious listings.
$1,250Base · +$15 / ft over 40 ft
  • 75+ edited HDR stills · full coverage
  • Engine room & mechanical spaces documented
  • Aerial hero images for the listing
  • 1–2 min graded cinematic listing film
  • Under-way drone tracking footage
  • Broker-hosted intro · 60-sec social reel
  • 4K master · web & print-ready delivery
Priority delivery · 48 hours
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Flagship
An emotional, lifestyle-led film for your premier listings.
$2,000Base · +$15 / ft over 50 ft
  • Everything in Cinematic, plus:
  • FPV reveals, orbits & dynamic sequences
  • Seamless ocean-to-salon fly-onboard one-shot
  • 2–3 min 4K cinematic film · refined narrative
  • Lifestyle vertical content for every platform
  • 2–3 teaser cutdowns for ads & email
Priority delivery · 48 hours or sooner
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Introductory offer · first listing only

See the ceiling on your first listing.

For our first project together, your listing receives the full Flagship treatment — FPV reveals, the fly-onboard sequence, the lifestyle edit — at the standard Cinematic rate. The clearest way to show what a more cinematic presentation does for a vessel, with nothing at risk on your side.

Your first listing
Flagship from $2,000
at $1,250

Full Flagship deliverables, billed at the Cinematic base rate. One-time introduction — applies to your first listing with us. Per-foot pricing as quoted.

His drone work was incredible — not only was the execution perfect, the images made it hard to choose which takes to use. He's our guy moving forward.
Rick Dugdale · President & CEO, Enderby Entertainment · Zero Contact (Anthony Hopkins)

Let's talk

Book a listing — or just see what it looks like.

Tell me the vessel, the timeline and the listing it's for. I'll send a fixed quote and a shoot date.

Scenic Sky Visuals · Glenn Mowatt, Aerial Drone DOP & Drone Pilot · Vancouver, BC