About Airframe
We started with a drone.
The work grew from there.
Airframe began in 2015 with Liam filming from the air. The camera could go somewhere new; the interesting part was deciding what the shot needed to say. That curiosity drew the work towards people, stories and complete films.
Beyond the aerial image
Finding the rest of the frame
Drone work taught us to plan carefully, read a location and wait for the right moment. It also made something obvious: the aerial image was rarely the whole film.
The more we filmed, the more interested we became in everything that happened after the drone landed: the conversation, the detail, the sound and the edit that gave the images meaning.
Airframe became a broader production company project by project, because we found that we cared about the whole film rather than any single technique.
Explore our process
Where paths crossed
One night on Tower Bridge
Three people crossing paths on a job.
The start of working together.
Rope-access work beneath the glass walkways.
A closer view of the maintenance work.
Tower Bridge and the Thames, seen from above.
Liam, Javier and Pablo first met while working around the same overnight shoot at Tower Bridge.
Rope-access specialists were cleaning beneath the glass walkways, Airframe was there to document the maintenance work, and the BBC was covering the story.
It was an unusual place to meet: high above the Thames, after dark, with several crews trying to capture the same night from very different angles. What began as three people crossing paths on a job became the start of working together.
The meeting is part of our company recollection. The finished film and subsequent coverage document the maintenance story.
Explore the Tower Bridge filmWhat Airframe became
Still curious about the whole film
We still fly drones, but we no longer think of Airframe as a drone company. The work now moves between documentary, corporate and live-event filming, with production and post-production shaped around what each story needs.
That change was not a rebrand or a plan written in advance. It happened through the work: meeting collaborators, being trusted with more of the process and discovering the kind of films we wanted to keep making.
Another chapter
Behind the Pass
Four films following the Levy catering operation at ExCeL London. Published by ExCeL London.
Explore the documentary seriesA few things have stayed with us.
What we take into the next film.
Prepare for the location.
Understand the access, the constraints and the people before the camera comes out.
Stay close to the subject.
Pay attention to the conversation and the small details that make a story its own.
Shape the whole film.
Think beyond the individual shot, through sound, rhythm and the final edit.
Need to know
Frequently Asked Questions
About the agency, our base, and the sectors we work in.
The cost depends on the brief, filming days, crew, locations, post-production and number of delivery versions. Airframe Media provides an itemised quote that sets out the agreed production scope before work begins. Use our pricing page to request the current rate card and review the factors that move a project quote.
Airframe Media produces corporate films, event and conference coverage, branded content, documentary work, testimonial and case-study films, aerial sequences and platform-specific versions. The team also provides cinematography, editing, colour, sound and motion graphics where those disciplines are included in the quote.
Airframe Media is based in London, United Kingdom, with our studio at 10a Chauncey Close, N9 9SE. We film across Greater London and travel throughout the UK for client projects. International teams can also commission Airframe for productions taking place in London.
The schedule depends on the number of locations, filming days, contributors, approval stages and deliverables. We agree the production schedule and delivery date in the quote before work begins.
Yes. London is our home base, and Airframe Media works with clients across the UK and with international clients filming in London. Travel, accommodation, location coordination and the required crew are scoped for the specific project and recorded in the quote.
Airframe Media has been operating since 2015 and has delivered 500+ productions. The quote identifies who will coordinate the brief, production and delivery for the specific project.
Airframe coordinates the creative brief, production and post-production through one accountable team. The quote defines the included crew, equipment, review stages, deliverables, formats and schedule so the commissioning path is clear before filming begins.
Tell us what you are trying to make.
Who is it for? What is happening, and what do you want the film to change? That is a useful place to start.