Terminal · 03c Stop 01 of 06
New York,east-coast coverage.
Engagement
East coast brand and aerial coverage. Drone packages and crew travel, the post pipeline runs from San Diego, the brand never feels handed off.
Coordinates
Stop 02 Intro
New York is the east-coast engagement. The studio is on the west coast, the brand and aerial work that lives in NYC ships out from there, and the post pipeline still runs through San Diego. The result is a film that does not feel handed off to a different vendor when the location changes, which is the gap most coast-to-coast engagements tend to run into.
Stop 03
The shapes that land here.
The work tends to take a few familiar shapes. Brand campaigns where the brand lives in New York and wants a film that feels like the city without picking up the visual conventions every other NYC vendor leans on. Aerial coverage, where the drone work has to clear the airspace correctly and integrate with the rest of the package once it is back in the suite. Founder pieces and customer stories for tech and finance brands headquartered in Manhattan or Brooklyn, where the documentary attention reads as the brand voice instead of stock-shot polish.
Stop 04
Drone, airspace, and the boroughs.
New York shoots are handled with crew travel from San Diego, kit packed and shipped or rented locally depending on the scope. The pilot of record holds a current FAA Part 107 certificate, files the required Class B authorizations through LAANC and direct coordination with the relevant towers, and carries commercial drone insurance. Manhattan and most of the inner boroughs sit inside restricted airspace, which is why most NYC drone work happens with proper authorization or in the parts of the metro where the airspace allows. Brooklyn rooftops, parts of Queens, and the wider tri-state area are familiar flight zones.
Stop 05
Post runs from the studio.
The post pipeline runs from San Diego regardless of where the production day was. Edit, color, motion graphics, sound, and platform cutdowns all happen in the same suite the rest of the brand work does, with the same calibrated reference. The brand team gets one creative lead to call instead of a separate east coast post house to triangulate with. Cuts ship inside the same window as the rest of the engagement.
Stop 06
Information.
- Are you based in New York?
- No, the studio is in San Diego. NYC is handled as a travel engagement, with crew flying from the west coast and the post pipeline running from the studio. The brand gets one creative team across the whole piece instead of a coast-to-coast vendor handoff.
- Can you fly drones in Manhattan and the boroughs?
- Authorization-dependent. The pilot of record holds a current FAA Part 107 certificate and files the required Class B authorizations through LAANC and direct tower coordination. Manhattan and the inner boroughs sit inside restricted airspace, the outer boroughs and the tri-state area are familiar flight zones.
- How is travel handled?
- Crew travel and shipping are quoted up front with the engagement. No surprise line items at invoice. Most NYC engagements are multi-day, with the production schedule built around a small set of locations rather than a sprawl of one-day shoots across the metro.
- Do you work with NYC agencies?
- Yes. White-label production for agencies and direct-to-brand work for in-house teams. The post pipeline runs from San Diego either way, with the agency or brand team holding the creative direction.
Stop 07 · Transfer
- Brand campaigns/services/brand-campaigns
- Drone and aerial/services/drone-and-aerial
- Tech and SaaS/services/tech-and-saas
- How retainers work/retainers
Last Stop
Bring the brand to a single creative team, coast to coast.
The crew flies, the kit ships, the post pipeline runs from San Diego. The brand sees one creative voice across the whole engagement, not a vendor handoff at the city line.