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

Years of marine and aerial cinematography.

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.

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.
Film-grade
Production-level cinematography — the camera systems, movement and colour of a feature set, not point-and-shoot aerials from a hobby drone.
Immersion
FPV reveals and motion put the viewer aboard — gliding from open water into the salon — an experience stills and static video can't create.

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