What We’ve Been Up To
Wrexham are our local team and we were stoked to be asked to go and work on the show, providing aerial imagery of the team and coaches as they set off for their big match at Wembley stadium. It’s incredible to see the effect Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are having on the city.
Drone filming on Welcome to Wrexham
This has been the hardest job of the year so far…. these F1 cars are just so fast! Monza is a tough track too, completely surrounded by fences. But we had a great time shooting content for their sponsors video productions.
FPV Racing drone filming Alpine F1 at Monza
Workgin across the West Midlands filming a night for North One’s latest series about Police Officers who use drones.
Drone filming for Channel 4’s Drone Cops series
Shooting content of some incredible historic cars for a chistmas social media campaign. Flying our new Naked Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera FPV racing drone.
Drone filming at Millbrook Testing Track
Such an incredible opportunity. Chris was asked by the Commonwealth Games media team to come and fly around key venues just before the opening ceremony for some video content for the Games social media feeds.
Flying drones at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games
Shooting for an S4C Welsh television programme about motorsport culture we got very muddy filming Welsh Enduro chamption Gethin Humpries at his test track near Llangollen.
FPV Racing drone filming motorcross in North Wales
Working at a university science park flying normal and First Person View drones filming inside a new food technology building for a tv advert.
Drone filming in the Netherlands
What an opprtunity! We were asked to fly around the empty stadium for some new social media content. Head over to our FPV page to see some of the shots!
Live drone for ITV Good Morning Britain
Flying drones in the Lake District filming Teton Gravity Research Jet Pack man
Flying drones filming content for the launch of the new Range Rover Sport
Once again working with Lec Park at the Jaguar Landrover test track in Gaydon. This time working the gimbal on the DJI Inspire 2 and flying fpv racing drones filming the new Range Rover sport
Shooting some content for JD Sports Chris has been down at Crystal Palace Football Stadium with the racing drones
FPV Drone flying at Selhurst Park
Flying drones inside Old Trafford for Manchester United
Drone filming at Old Trafford
On our regulary visit to the home of Manchester United this week shooting content for some social media posts
Chris spent a week near Inverness in Scotland working for SP Films who were providing aerial imagery for the hit BBC Show Traitors. Flying DJI Inspire 2 and FPV racing drones capturing opening scenes for the programme.
Flying FPV drones on BBC Traitors
Flying drones inside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
This week we spent a day on a beach in the south of England doing our yearly mapping of a sepcific area of beach for survey and monitoring purposes. The location is within a SSSI and we have to have a special permit to use drones here
Enormous beach survey with our RTK Drone
This was so much fun. A brand new Deliotte open plan office complex in Newcastle upon Tyne with a brief to fly around it to give make a video tour for promotion of the work.
1 Canada Square in Canary Wharf London had a revamp and we got invited in to do a really cool shoot inside to put a video on their website. 30 actors got involved and we even flew into the tube station!
FPV cinewoop drone flying in Caranry Wharf
Chris is a Spurs fan so this was pretty much a dream come true. Shooting with traditional and FPV Racing drones inside the Spurs Stadium for some social media content. You can read more about this and see the video on our FPV page:
Working on the beautiful isle of Anglesey in North Wales we were invited to work along side a talented team to film content for a short commercial advertising waterproof jackets.
Shooting on a Henri Lloyd commercial
FPV drone tour around the new Deloitte offices
A chance to work on a fascinating project with Marie Currie ambassadors. First time we’ve been chased of a housing estate for looking like police officers though! Middlesborough was a feature with Kris Kamara who was an absolute delight to work with.
Filming in Middlesborough for Marie Currie
Carefully coordinated with London Heliport, NATS and Met Police, we were able to do an early morning drone filming session at he Covent Garden flower market in Battersea, London
Flying in the London Restricted zone
Flying drones at Chateau Impney in Worcestershire as the backdrop for this stunning historic motor car. The film is for an auction listing. Working for the talented team at Petroleum and Co.
Drone filming historic motor car for an Auction video
Drone filming for Top Gear at Anglesey Circuit in North Wales
Working for Apex Cameras we joined them on a shoot on a very wintery morning on the North East coast to film Ben for a series of shots for the opening scenes of the documentary.
Drone filming on the new Ben Stokes documentary
Working for the artist Seb Lee on his Newcastle Laser Lights installation. Shooting night time drone footage and hyperlapses with our DJI Inspire and Mavic drones for a video edit by Nico Turner going out on social media and news networks
Working for our friends at Mantis Pro Media, we’ve been helping them shoot some content at the Bolesworth Estate. We’ve been flying DJI Inspire 2 drones and FPV racing drones for a mix of different content capture.
Working with Andy Lawrence on the gimbal, we worked with the Top Gear team directed by Jon Richards to shoot a feature on the Lotus Emira for BBC Top Gear series 32 episode 3
Flying drones both normal DJI Inspire and FPV drones for the debut of Mawness and her single Carbon Monoxide. Working for award winning director Yassa Khan.
Director: Yassa Khan
Producer: Sinisa
Executive Producer: Francesca Woods
Agent and co-EP: Alexa Haywoods
Production Company: CAMP PRODUCTION
Drone filming on a Snowdonia Music Video Shoot
Filming the New Year laser lights installation in Newcastle upon Tyne
Working with Lec Park shooting for series 31 of Top Gear at the Dunsfold Test Track. Gimbal operating for Lec and flying some solo FPV on a feature which included electric cars drag racing and some pretty cool Mclaren and Lamborgini hypercars
Drone filming for BBC Top Gear
Drone filming the Bolesworth Christmas Lights installation
Working for a Welsh based engineering consultancy we have been using our drones to make complex 3d scans of structures incuding a number of bridges in North Wales. The data is then processed in house using Reality Capture software to generate highly detailed 3d models which can then be viewed online, allowing structural surveyors to inspect the bridges remotely.
Our pilot and gimbal operator team working for Special Stage TV providing the aerial filming for the premier North Wally rally event videos.
Drone filming the Visit Comwy Cambrian Rally
Eastwood Drones have been providing aerial imagery for BBC/S4C car show Pen Petrol. This episode visits Caffeine & Machine for one of their Daikoku Nights.
Drone filming for Pen Petrol
We’ve been over at the Antur Stiniog mountain bike park in North Wales shooting drone content for a forthcoming Visit Wales online advert promoting winter tourism.
Winter drone shoot for a Visit Wales advert
Using our drones to make 3d Models of bridges
Over a number of days and nights our dual operator drone team filmed a number of scenes for the opening credits and challenges for the hit ITV show. Locations included the iconic Gwrch Castle in Abergele, Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia and the Great Orme near Llandudno. We used DJI Inspire 2 drones and our FPV racing drones to capture the classic Jaguar cars bringing the celebrities to the castle.
Drone filming for ITV I’m a Celebrity
Filming for a Wales based TV Production company we’ve been chasing Jade Paveley from Forest Rally School in Carno around the gravel rally course in her Subaru Impreza Rally Car
FPV Drone shoot at Forest Rally School in Wales
Eastwood Drones provided the aerial imagery for this Children in Need documentary following the Matt Baker and the Rickshaw Challenge around the country. Locations included Sunderland, Warrington, Aberystwyth, Birmingham and Silverstone.
Drone filming on the BBC Rickshaw Relay
Eastwood Drones spent many days on a mountainside in Mid Wales to film Gee Atherton taking on this epic run. The Ridgeline 2 is the latest of Gee’s projects that we’ve collaborated on and we can’t wait to see what he gets unto next.
Drone filming for Gee Atherton’s Ridgeline 2 in North Wales
Jamie has been out filming in Venice for a new series coming to Apple TV. We teamed up with a local operator to capture this famous city from the air.
Drone Filming In Venice
Chris and Jamie have been working with the Amazon team shooting for Series 2 and 3 of the hit streaming service show.
Drone filming on Clarkson’s Farm
Drone Filming At the Top Gear Test Track at Dunsfold
Chris and Jamie are back at Dunsfold this week shooting for another episode of BBC Top Gear
Eastwood Drones provided the aerial imagery for this segment on the Rimac Nevera at Ellington Airfield with Chris Harris for the current series of Top Gear.
Working on BBC Top Gear at Elvington Airfield
Chris and Gavin have been out shooting the aerial imagery for this supercar segment in Germany and Austria featuring a Ferrari, Pagani and a Porsche for the current series of Top Gear.
Drone filming for BBC Top Gear In Austria
Production In Morecambe
Eastwood Drones have been filming for a subscription service production in Morecambe.
Shooting for an Eco Show In Ruthin
Jamie has been flying drones for a TV show looking at eco house building in Ruthin, right on our doorstep!
Eastwood Drones provided the aerial imagery for this Radio X segment with the Aero Spare display team flying their powered gliders with smoke and fireworks around Bognor Regis.
Drone filming for a Radio X & Samsung social media production
Eastwood Drones have been flying in Woking at the Mclaren Technical Centre. We provided aerial imagery of this iconic building for a film showcasing cyber security firm Darktrace’s use of the facility.
Working at the Mclaren Technical Centre
Working for our friends at Mancheter based Paragon Pictures we have been flying at Boundary Outlet in Colne to capture imagery of their flagship store advertising purposes.
Drone Filming at Boundary Outlet stores
Eastwood Drones have been filming for Amazon Prime in North Wales. We provided aerial imagery for Amazon Fashion EU for a marketing campaign in Snowdonia.
Amazon Fashion
Eastwood Drones have been providing aerial imagery for the Power League at their venue in Birmingham. Capturing what happens there by day and night for future advertising.
Shooting promotional content for Power League
Eastwood Drones have been making Maps and 3D Models for Denbighshire County Council so they can track the progress of this newly established tree nursery in St Asaph.
3d Modelling & Mapping
Filming at Twiflex Bedford
Eastwood Drones have been providing internal drone footage for DMA Europa’s industrial B to B films showcasing the facilities and production techniques of their clients. Here we used FPV and traditional drones to capture a variety of different sorts of footage at Twiflex in Bedford.
Eastwood Drones have been filming at Trickiest in Knutsford for a Rondo Media show. We provided aerial imagery and stabilised gimbal footage for this car culture program.
Truckfest
Eastwood Drones have been filming across North Wales for Avanti West coast trains at locations including Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait.
Avanti West Coast
Eastwood Drones have been filming for a UEFA documentary about the 2022 Women’s Euro. We were covering the build up to England’s semi final against Sweden at Bramble Lane.
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
Eastwood Drones have been at Manchester United’s Aon training complex in Carrington filming the for Ladies first team. We provided aerial imagery for technical analysis and media purposes.
Manchester United
Eastwood Drones have been providing internal drone footage for B to B style corporate & industrial films. Showcasing products & manufacturing techniques such as this production line at Vision Modular in Bedford, using both traditional and FPV drones to acquire a variety of different types of footage.
Internal Drone
Eastwood Drones have been providing aerial imagery for a Welsh language car show. For this episode we near Stratford covering a Japanese car night at Caffeine & Machine.
Car Culture Documentary
Eastwood Drones have provided the aerial imagery for a Welsh language mental health documentary. We filmed at numerous locations around North Wales including an open water swimming segment on Llyn Padarn.
Llyn Padarn
Eastwood Drones have been in France providing aerial imagery for a corporate film of Warner Electrics, Altra production facility in Angers, France.
Altra
Eastwood Drones provided aerial imagery for a preview of Red Bull Hardline 2022. Gee Atherton presented a run through of the new features to the course added in for this years event.
Hardline Preview
Eastwood Drones have been filming in Croydon and Kelvedon Hatch for an arts documentary. We provided aerial imagery and FPV fly throughs to compliment A cam and archive footage for a forthcoming BBC arts production about the Chapman Brothers.
Drone filming on a BBC Arts Documentary
Eastwood Drones provided aerial imagery of Guild Esports academy in Shoreditch and FPV fly throughs of the internals of the building. Co owned by David Beckham, Guild Esports is the first physical Esports academy.
Filming at Guild Esports Shoreditch
Eastwood Drones have been in Washington in the North East of England to provide aerial imagery of the opening of the 300th Costa Coffee Drive through in the UK.
Costa Coffee
Eastwood Drones worked on the official trailer for EA Sports Fifa 23 in Liverpool. We provided aerial imagery around Anfield and Bootle which is where the underneath scene was shot.
FIFA 23
Our drone team have been providing aerial imagery for an event video to showcase a corporate fiftieth anniversary held at the National Sports Centre at Bishop Abbey.
Working at the National Sports Centre at Bishop Abbey
Working in central London on the river Thames for Burberry
Eastwood Drones have been shooting aerial imagery for a short film with Alistair & Jonathan Brownlee around the Yorkshire Dales for Swiss bike manufacturer BMC.
BMC Film with the Brownlee Brothers
We have been flying drones at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. A combination of standard filming drones and FPV quads were used on this shoot.
Flying At Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Drone filming For A BBC Comedy
We have been working on the aerial imagery for this BBC comedy set in North Wales around Llandudno.
Eastwood Media are proud to be partnered with such an iconic brand. Formatt Hitech make incredible filters to Film and TV and we are happy to be using them on all of our ground and drone filming equipment. Located in South Wales is a plus too!
We’ve been at the Formatt Hitech HQ in South Wales
Eastwood Drones provided the aerial imagery for Burberry’s floating meadow moored on the Thames by Tower Bridge and the Tower of London to coincide with Superbloom event and the Platinum Jubilee.
Working for a forthcoming Apple TV show, we’ve been working in Lisbon this week filming around the city and on the river.
Flying drones working in Lisbon, Portugal
Eastwood Media are specialists in an array of drone applications. Here we can be seen conducting an autonomous survey of large infrastructure for 3D modelling with the Skydio UAS.
Bridge Modelling In Conwy, North Wales
Eastwood Media have been touring the country helping to document a fundraising initiative for the BBC’s Children In Need.
Children In Need
Drone filming for the launch of the Ferrari Portofino M
Travelling through Italy working on the new Ferrari Portofino M launch film
Using a bespoke drone and camera combination (not off the shelf) we’re shooting really high resolution photos of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World Heritage Site for the next few months to update their content across social media and web channels.
High resolution Aerial Imagery
Working for a Liverpool based surveyors capturing aerial images of the roof for a very detailed survey of Chester Town Hall
Drone flying for a complicated roof survey in Chester
We spent a few days across North Wales drone filming with the Tillman Brothers for the Rachel Atherton segment on this incredible movie…
Drone Filming on the Old World Movie
Call out to provide crucial aerial imagery to inspect the extent of the flooding. If you look really closely at the end of the track that’s Boris Johnson getting interviewed for TV.
Using drones to inspect the flooding in Manchester
We’re working on a project for the Canals and Rivers Trust taking very high resolution photos of the Dee Valley World Heritage site for forthcoming promotional media and web use. We’re flying a Sony A7iii camera with full camera and gimbal remote control using our Freefly Systems Alta heavylift drone
High resolution drone photography
Eastwood Media were recently filming on Anglesey and the Ogwen Valley in North Wales to provide aerial imagery for a TV advert. We had perfect weather for the shoot at the spectacular locations and were impressed with the look of the finished advert.
Drone Filming for a Jacamo commercial
Eastwood Media have been flying drones inside of the flight restriction zone around RAF Valley and Mona on Anglesey in North Wales. We were commissioned to provide aerial imagery of Ysgol Corn Hir for a Welsh teacher training film. The school lies inside the FRZ, but we at Eastwood Media have often had to fly in restricted airspace and so knew the protocol to follow in order to be granted permission to undertake this flight.
Flying In RAF Valley Flight Restriction Zone
Eastwood Media have been providing aerial imagery for a production being shot on Anglesey and in Snowdonia. This picture is taken at sunset in the Parys Mountain Copper Mine.
Drone Filming On Anglesey
Eastwood Media were recently filming in Llandudno, North Wales for BBC nature show Autumnwatch. We provided drone footage of the wild goats on the Great Orme for a segment on the show. The episode went out this week and below is a link to the video.
Aerial Imagery For Autumnwatch
Eastwood Media have been providing aerial imagery for a promotional film about a laser show above Leeds city centre. The event is held annually and involves multiple laser clusters on rooftops all over the city. This year members of the public could take control of the lasers via an app to create their own patterns in the sky.
Drone filming the Light Night Leeds laser show by artist Seb Lee
Eastwood Media have been providing aerial imagery for a nature documentary on the Great Orme. This picture was taken at the end of at the end of a cloudless day looking west over Anglesey.
Drone Filming On The Great Orme for a BBC Natural History show
It’s been a couple of years since we last put a showreel together. Check out our latest video with clips we've shot with drones working all over the UK and Europe.
2020 Aerial Showreel
Working on a nature reserve in North Wales using drones and a technique called photogrammetry to produce a centimetre accurate model of a piece of land for planning purposes. We use data from GPS points to accurately locate the model in space.
3d Mapping with Drones
Eastwood Media have been at Weston Park filming with Special Stage TV on a media day for Historic Rally. The event will be for classic cars like the Audi Quattro in the image to the right.
Drone filming ate Historic Rally Event in Weston Park
Eastwood Media have been at Gwrych Castle providing a live drone feed for Good Morning Britain. The castle will be the location for this years I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and the news of it was breaking that day.
Good Morning Britain Live drone footage
Drone filming with WRC Elfyn Evans for the film “Countryslide”
Eastwood Media have been providing the aerial imagery for a promotional film for Toyota featuring WRC driver Elfyn Evans heading out for a bile ride in his Hilux.
This was a two day shoot with one at a closed rally stage and the other out and about around Snowdonia in North Wales.
Eastwood Media were giving a live feed to This Morning on ITV when Holly and Phil started interacting with the drone and calling for the Emmerdale theme music to be played over it.
Live Drone on ITV’s This Morning show
Eastwood Media Have been at Llyn Brenig providing aerial imagery for a televised contest based on the reservoir.
Large scale productions are very difficult to organise at the moment with Covid rules so we a lot of respect for the organisers of this and other similar shoots.
Filming At Llyn Brenig
Eastwood Media have been at Dyfi Bike Park near Machynlleth in mid-Wales drone filming a line high on the ridge above the open trails.
Filming Gee Atherton for his latest film, The Ridge
This weekend Eastwood Media hosted a learn to fly drones course in the village of Llandegla in North Wales.
The course was geared towards getting complete novices flying drones competently with some classroom based content, but mostly hands on experience.
The course included some basic guidance on how to film with drones and will hopefully give the attendees the confidence to go out and shoot some great footage.
Drone Flying Course
Barking Mad
Channel 4 Documentary
Drone filming in and around Dover for a channel 4 documentary about a pet talent agency.
Drone Filming at UNESCO World Heritage Site near Llangollen
Working close to home at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World Heritage Site gathering aerial imagery for a film celebrating 10 years since the UNESCO designation of the area.
The site stretches from Chirk along the Dee valley through Llangollen with lots of places to shoot in glorious late September weather.
Drone Filming The Menai Strait for S4C Welsh Television
Shooting aerial imagery for a documentary to be aired on the Welsh TV channel S4C.
Drone Filming Mountain Bikers for a Vitus Bikes launch video
Using our high resolution and zoom cameras we have been working on a sensitive industrial site delivering detailed inspection photos for a surveyor to report on the structural integrity of a dilapidated building.
Building Delapidation Aerial Inspection Survey
Working on the Easy Ways To Live Well
BBC Documentary
Drone filming on the Wirral for a BBC documentary about healthy living.
Britannia’s Burning
BBC Documentary
Drone filming for a BBC documentary about the fire that devastated the Brittania bridge on the Menai Strait.
Working for SP Films on a cold and windy day in Derby we shot the aerial imagery for the latest The SLP music video
Drone shoot for the SLP Music video
Shooting aerial imagery for a Chinese film production. This was a super complicated shoot right in the heart of London with all the necessary permits in place to fly in the heavily restricted zones aroud the houses of parliament
Drone Filming The Houses of Parliament in London
Shooting in Snowdonia, North Wales for Gee Milner for a Vitus Bikes promotional film - Vitus Mythique launch
Flying drones on the new Liam Payne Music video At Portland Bill
We were in Dorset filming on the Isle of Portland, capturing imagery of a stunt for a music promo.
Roadnight Taylor are a power and energy consultancy that Eastwood Media have been working with to showcase the projects they have worked on.
Drone Filming Renewable Energy Installations
Drone Filming Rally Cars in North Wales for a Red Bull production
Trade Stand at Innovation in Agriculture
Eastwood Media had a trade stand at the Innovation and Diversity in Agriculture show at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells, mid Wales.
Our stand had our industrial DJI M210 drone showing the outputs of our XT2 thermal imaging camera and Z30 inspection zoom camera on a large monitor and an FPV racer simulator.
We had a great time talking to people and listening to their ideas on how drone technology can be integrated in agriculture business.
Drone Filming Downhill Mountain Bikers for the BBC
We’ve been at the White Cliffs of Dover drone filming for a forthcoming TV documentary about two people who run a business nearby.
The documentary has been filmed over the last few months and we’re here to get general vistas of the iconic scenery around Dover and to get linking and introductory shots for the specific locations in the film flying our DJI Inspire 2 Drone.
Drone Filming on the White Cliffs of Dover
Pro Biker Tries Rallying
Redbull have released the film we worked on earlier in the year.
MTB rider and amateur rally driver Gee Atherton is put through his paces by Elfyn Evans. Driving an M-Sport Ford around the forest stages near Brenig reservoir in North Wales.
Gee tries a few focusing and performance techniques and hits the stages to find out if they work for him.
We were at Dyfi Bike Park in Corris, Mid Wales providing aerial imagery for a BBC Sport production.
The short film is about the Atherton mountain bike racing family and their newly opened bike park.
We were brought in to drone film Dan Atherton on the trails with our DJI Inspire 2 with X7 camera.