Videography
Film that carries the feeling
The problem
A film is often the most convincing thing on a page — people will watch a room, a kitchen or a job being done long after they have stopped reading about it. It is also usually the largest file on the site, so a page carrying video can take noticeably longer to open, especially on a phone running on mobile data rather than Wi-Fi, and some of the people it was meant to persuade leave before it ever appears. And a wide film made for a website sits badly in a social feed, where the phone is held upright and a lot of people are watching with the sound off. It is the same footage either way; it just needs a different edit for each place it is going to appear.
How we work
We film and edit for the place the video will actually be seen. A film for the top of your website is kept to as small a file as it can be without the picture suffering, and the colour is evened out across shots taken at different times of day, so it looks like one piece of work and the page still opens quickly for someone on a phone. The version for Instagram or TikTok is cut upright, for a screen held the tall way, rather than a wide film dropped into a tall space with black bars above and below it. Where we have built the site as well, we control when the film starts loading and which still picture sits in its place until someone presses play, so nobody is left looking at a blank rectangle while they wait. If your site was built by someone else, we would want to look at how it handles video before promising a particular result.
What's Included
Made for where it will be shown
A film at the top of your website, a paid advert and a post in a feed are watched differently — different lengths, different shaped screens, and a feed audience that often has the sound off, so what matters has to be visible rather than said. Each gets its own edit out of the same day's filming, so one shoot day covers every place you need video rather than one film being reused where it was never meant to run.
Venue and location work
Walkthroughs and location films that let somebody see the whole of a place — the rooms, the route through it, the view — before deciding whether to travel to it. For a venue, a hotel or a property, that means more of the enquiries you get are from people who already know what they are coming to see, and fewer viewings end with someone deciding on arrival that it was not what they pictured.
Delivered without slowing the page down
The film is made as light as it can be and does not start downloading until it is needed, so the page opens quickly and there is a still picture to look at straight away instead of an empty grey box. Where a shorter film would do the same job we will say so rather than sell you a longer one — a heavy film on the home page costs you the visitors who give up before it appears.
Videography across Cyprus
We work island-wide from our base in Paphos. These are the districts with a page of their own — everywhere else, just ask.
Questions
How much does a promotional video cost?
Video is quoted per project rather than sold off a price list, because the cost follows how many days of filming it takes, how many places we have to film in, and how many separate edits you need at the end. One day in one location with a single edit is a much smaller job than filming across several places and also delivering upright versions cut for Instagram and TikTok. All prices include VAT and work starts on a 50% deposit. Tell us what you want filmed and where, and we will put a figure to it rather than guess.
What do I need to do on the day of filming?
Mostly, make sure we can get in and that the place looks the way you want it seen: somebody with keys, any permission the location needs, and the rooms, food or products ready at the time we agreed. If staff or customers will be on camera, tell them beforehand — we will not film anyone who has not agreed to it, so someone saying no on the day means that shot does not happen. Time lost to a locked door or a room that is not ready comes out of the filming day itself and cannot be added back, so the preparation is what protects the material you are paying for. You do not need to be on camera yourself unless you want to be.
Will putting a video on my website slow it down?
It can, and that is the usual problem with video on a website: a large film file is often the heaviest thing on the page, and a slow page loses visitors before anyone presses play. We shrink the file and control when it loads so the page still opens quickly, and we would rather give you a shorter, lighter edit than hang a heavy film off your home page. If the site was built by someone else, we would need to look at how it handles video before promising a particular result.
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