Where we film
Video production in Perth
Perth is the furthest we fly and the one that most rewards planning ahead. There's a time zone and a long flight between the west coast and our studio, so a Perth shoot is scoped carefully, filmed by a crew who know the state, and cut back in Melbourne to the same standard as everything else.
Distance is the honest headline with Perth, so let's deal with it plainly. We don't have an office there and we won't pretend the west coast is a quick trip. What we do have is a local crew we've vetted and worked with, and a way of running the job that turns the distance into a non-issue. Arek runs your strategy from Melbourne and directs, and because the flight is long, we plan the Perth day tightly to get everything the brief needs in one visit rather than a string of return trips. When it's a bigger production, Arek flies over and directs on the ground. The edit comes home to Melbourne.
Western Australia's economy is shaped by resources and energy, and that sets the tone for a lot of the video work. Mining, oil and gas, and the engineering and services firms around them make content that has to hold up in tough environments and to a technical audience, whether that's a site further out or a corporate office in the CBD. It's demanding work in the practical sense, remote locations, real safety requirements, tight site windows, and it's exactly the kind of shoot where a director who plans properly and a crew who know the terrain earn their place.
If your organisation is WA-based, or you're running a national job that too often treats Perth as an afterthought, this is where careful scoping pays off. Get the brief right, plan the trip once, and the western leg matches the rest without a second flight.
What organisations here film
Resources, energy and the firms around them.
The Perth briefs that reach us are shaped by the state's core industries: capability and project films for resources and energy companies, safety and operational content for sites with genuine risk, recruitment films for employers competing for a workforce that moves between projects, and corporate and stakeholder pieces for the engineering and services firms in the supply chain. Much of it films in demanding conditions, so it needs a crew comfortable working to a site's rules rather than a studio's.
How a Perth project runs
Scope tight, film once, cut at home.
Strategy and scoping
We settle the brief and, because the flight west is long, plan the shoot to capture everything in one visit. For a site job that means sorting access, safety and timing up front, by video call and with Arek over for the day when the scale justifies it.
WA crew, on the day
A local operator we've vetted films on location, with Arek directing in person for larger productions and on a live link otherwise. Someone who knows the state and is comfortable on a remote site, not just in a boardroom.
Edit back in Melbourne
The footage comes home and we cut it at the studio, keeping the western leg matched to the rest of a national film. Nothing drifts because it was shot a continent away.
Filming in Perth?
Tell us what the video needs to do and where the shoot is, site or CBD. We'll scope it so the trip works hard and the west coast leg matches everything else. A 30-minute call costs nothing.