04 / Time-lapse

Offer time-lapse without buying a single camera.

Long-term construction and infrastructure time-lapse, installed and run for you. Your client signs with you, your invoice, your reporting. I am the part that goes up the pole.

A camera on a tripod on a construction site with workers in hi-vis behind
On site · progress filming

For production houses and agencies

The client asks for a build record. You do not want to refer it out.

Time-lapse is the request that most often walks a client out the door. It runs for two years, it needs hardware you do not own, and the specialist who takes it on ends up talking to your client every month for the life of the build. Twenty-four months is a long time to hope nobody makes an offer.

And there is the other thing about a build record. Two years from now, somebody will need to prove what happened in week nine. A progress claim, a delay dispute, an award entry. The people who set the camera up on day one are the only ones who can answer, and your client will remember who made that happen.

So do it the other way. You scope and sell the program. I supply the cameras, do the install, keep them running, pull the footage and cut the updates. The work comes back to you unbranded, and what your client sees has your name on it. You have just added a recurring line to your own offer rather than handing one to somebody else.

The reel

What comes back to you.

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Build record reelTime-lapse

Months on a site cut to under a minute. Fixed cameras, aerial passes and progress visits.

What I bring

The whole rig, not just the frames.

01

Cameras up to 50MP

Long-term units for months to years on site, panoramic for wide frontages and civil works, and vertical 9:16 for towers and social first delivery.

02

Solar and 4G, so no site services

Self contained weatherproof rigs with their own power and connectivity, remotely monitored. No power drop, no trenching, no waiting on the sparky.

03

Mounting sorted

Portable poles and temporary mounts supplied and installed where a site has nothing to bolt to, which is most sites in the first six months.

04

Site ready, not induction blocked

White card and RIW card current, Tier 1 construction approved and $20M insured. I can be on site this week rather than after a three week onboarding.

05

Aerial time-lapse as well

Saved drone waypoints flown back to the same frame month after month, so the aerial progression actually lines up instead of drifting.

06

Cut by someone who edits

Certified DaVinci Resolve colourist, broadcast trained. The monthly update is graded and cut, not exported out of a camera app.

Sites

The kind of ground it goes on.

Evan filming a worker in hi-vis in front of an excavator
Civil and earthworksProgress filming
A drone on a rail corridor with a hi-vis crew
RailRIW inducted
A drill rig against a sunset sky
ResourcesRemote sites
Evan in hi-vis with a camera on a tripod beside a regional road

Time-lapse

Two years from now, week nine will matter.

A progress claim, a delay dispute, an award entry. The only people who can answer are the ones who set the camera up on day one and kept it running. Your client will remember who made that happen.

For other time-lapse providers

Hands and coverage in NSW, without the drive.

If you already run time-lapse and the problem is capacity or geography, that is a simpler conversation. Installs and de installs, camera swaps, card pulls, fault call outs, a site visit when a client wants stills this week, and regional NSW jobs that do not justify sending your own person from interstate. I am between Sydney and Orange most weeks, so the Central West is not a travel day.

Your hardware or mine. Your portal, your reporting, your client. I will work to your install standard and your naming, and the photos of the completed install go to you, not onto my Instagram.

Worth saying plainly

Where the line sits.

01

Your program, not mine

I do not quote your client, I do not renew with them, and I am not in the room at handover unless you want me there.

02

The archive is yours

Every frame is time stamped and archived, and the archive goes to you. Progress claims, delay discussions and award submissions are your asset, not mine to hold.

03

Whose portal

If your client needs somewhere to log in and watch, we work out whose name is on it before anything is installed. Never a surprise in month three.

04

It stays a build record

Time stamped, continuous and unretouched, because the value of the thing is that it can be relied on later, not that it looks good in a pitch deck.

Related credits

Sites and infrastructure.

Transport for NSW, Sydney MetroDOP, Steadicam and drone
NSW PoliceDOP and drone, driver training
MultiplexCamera and drone, AMP Tower progress
ABC TV, CatalystDrone operations
The Morning ShowLive cross, DEJERO and LiveU
Mobile Living with Patrick DangerfieldDOP and drone, Seven Network
NSW Department of Primary IndustriesLive director, shark mitigation
Destination NSWRegional promotional series

Questions producers and providers ask

Before you ring.

Does the site need power or internet?

No. The rigs are solar powered with their own 4G connection and are remotely monitored, so there is no power drop, no trenching and no waiting on site services.

How long can a camera stay up?

The life of the build. Months to years on the long term units, with the camera checked and the footage pulled on a schedule rather than at the end.

Can you run our existing cameras?

Yes. If you already have hardware on site I can install, monitor and service it to your standard and hand the footage back to you. Your kit or mine.

Who owns the footage?

You do. Every frame is time stamped and archived and the archive goes to you, because the value of a build record is that it can be relied on later.

Will our client see your name anywhere?

No. The program is sold and owned by you, the updates come back unbranded, and if a portal is needed we agree whose name is on it before anything is installed.

Also

The other things one booking covers.

Availability & booking

Tell me the date and the job.

Quickest way to get an answer is the phone. If I am on a shoot I will call you back the same day. Rates on request, and they depend on the day, the kit and where it is. Ring even if you are not sure it is my kind of job. Worst case you get a straight answer and the name of someone better suited.

Based at Sydney Olympic Park and Orange NSW. Available Australia wide and overseas. ABN held, fully insured, invoices as a contractor.

Call 0438 719 158 Email