Media Production Services
WORLD CLASS MEDIA
25 years of international shooting experience using the latest in cinema cameras, drones and editing platforms.
EXCEPTIONAL VALUE AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT
We always aim to go the extra mile to deliver media that is better than our clients imagined.
BRINGING YOUR DREAMS TO LIFE
We develop creative concepts with our clients to visualise their projects and dreams.
Welcome to Lightning Strike Productions.
We are a professional, full service media production company based in Salisbury, UK.
Lightning Strike Productions provides innovative, multidiscipline film and photography solutions, tailored to your individual needs.
As well as our award winning ground based filming services we also offer CAA Certified Drone Pilots for aerial filming, HSE certified underwater filming and Rebreather Diving to the professional media production services available.
We cater to clients across the UK and Internationally who want to get their message or product seen by the world. If you’re looking for a professional cameraman with a camera, you’re in the right place.
Take a look around our website to learn about our services and past projects. We are excited to work with you and create something truly inspiring together.
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What we Offer:
Over the last 20 years our filming services have been in demand across the globe. Europe, Micronesia, Caribbean. South East Asia and the Americas.
We produce quality media for our clients employing a variety of disciplines. Our top quality cameras produce 4K and above cinematic footage and beautiful still images.
Top of the range audio equipment for clear sound reproduction ensures the message is heard.
Real Estate or Corporate, we deliver.
We are CAA certified with the correct UK drone licenses and insurance.
Over 10 years experience of flying drones for clients including National Geographic and Animal Planet.
We provide Drone filming services to TV and Film, photogrammetry and aerial surveys.
See our drone company page for more information on our drone filming services.
20 years underwater filming experience for TV and Film around the world.
Richard is an Underwater camera operator certified for Closed Circuit Rebreather, enabling the best possible underwater opportunities.
HSE SCUBA Qualified, DAN insured. Open water or Underwater Stage.
Housed Cinema rigs with surface feed available.
Check our underwater camera specialist page for more information
With 20 years experience filming and crewing for TV and feature films we can bring a great range of disciplines and knowledge to your production. Film set work in the UK is booming with numerous large studios and smaller indie companies all producing films for the ever growing consumer market. Our network of professionals can help you get your production done with the extra little bit you’re looking for.
Richard Brooks was the Underwater Camera Operator on this Cinematic Documentary.
We employ 8K cameras combined with sliders, gimbals and motion control apparatus to produce incredible time-lapse and Hyper lapse shots for our clients. Whether you want a time-lapse of sunsets or a timelapse of a building site, we can cater to you.
Years of experience shooting for News crews gives us the journalism, run and gun skills for filming on the go. Stabilised with a gimbal for smooth footage, Clear audio and a professional look with fast turn around edits to global audiences.
We cater to both national and international projects that require media coverage. Previous clients range from local businesses to global broadcasters.
Recent projects include scientific expeditions to the remote atolls and islands in the Pacific, work on feature films, International journalism projects and Covid 19 educational media.
Clients include The BBC, CNN, Animal Planet. AlJazeera, National Geographic, Arte. France 3, ZDF, Getty, AFP. Pew Environmental Trust, ABC Australia. Palau Government. Economist Films, Asian Development Bank. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and numerous film studios.
See some of our previous work here.
Most importantly, we won’t try to sell you an impossible fantasy. We know from experience that it’s better to have honest and realistic expectations.
Lightning Strike Media Productions is owned and operated by Richard Brooks, read more about Richard here.
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We are based in Salisbury in Wiltshire, UK. The Central South. Perfectly placed for jobs in Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire and other locations in the South of the UK. As you can see in our show reel, we are no strangers to international jobs having worked in numerous countries over the years.
Lightning Strike Productions provides a wide range of media production services. We film for local businesses producing promotional and marketing media. This can include ground based media and aerial drone filming and photography. We provide editing services for clients that already have media assets but want them changed in some way whether it’s to add or take away elements of it, adjust audio, add graphics or titles, etc.
We also provide underwater filming services to productions from TV, Film and Academia. This can range from preproduction safety assessments, logistics planning, in water filming with our range of professional underwater cameras, editing and colour grading.
Colour grading is also a separate service we offer to larger productions.
Lastly we have a huge archive of stock footage and photos available for licensing for all applications.
In the UK and across the US and EU there are many drone and UAV related laws. Richard Brooks and Lightning Strike Productions are fully certified, insured and CAA compliant for commercial drone operations in the UK, U.S and EU.
If you are new to drone flying and based in the UK, once you get your drone you should register it with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). You pay a small fee and get issued an operator and flyer ID #. You are now set to fly!
There are a few guidelines you must acknowledge when you get your flyer ID. These simple rules will help you fly safely and minimise risk to your drone and other people and property.
Check out this guide on UK drone laws and how to fly legally in the UK.
Remember it is your responsibility as a pilot to be safe and not to risk the safety of other people.
This is a very hard question to answer because it is dependant on what the client wants. It can be a simple 5 minute filming session and delivery of the raw footage or it can be multiple months of filming and editing to Netflix standard production levels. Lightning Strike Productions can handle both. Please contact us to discuss where in that spectrum your project lies. We’d love to hear from you.
No, at present we produce genuine real media, however some of our archive is being used to train AI
At present we are not hiring , please check for job posts on platforms like LinkedIn for more information.
There are a large number of advantages. 1. Budget, they are much cheaper than a Helicopter. 2. Stabilisation, Cameras are mounted on gimbals for very smooth filming. 3. Less intrusive than a Helicopter, quieter etc 4. Portable. 5, Quick to set up for a spontaneous shot. 6. High quality cameras. 7. GPS and positioning data allows precise location of each photo for ultra precise maps and digital twin production.
We offer a wide range of media formats that will highlight your business strengths and showcase them to your desired clients.
We love creating new and exciting media, crafting it and working with our clients to deliver something that we are all proud of.
Contact us to discuss plans, ideas or even just dreams. We’d love to hear from you and help you succeed.
We have a small selection of professional level lights for interviews and productions in house and would acquire more from rental housings specific to requirements. We are experienced in lighting (Gaffering) for large and small productions and can assist you with yours.