Flying Pictures

Flying Pictures is an aerial filming company. Its head office is at West 12 Studios in Shepherd's Bush, west London. It also has offices in Winchester and Sheffield in the UK, and in Lyon, Nashville and Los Angeles. The company films from helicopters for feature films, television, commercials and live broadcast.

Rather than keeping one fixed fleet, the company sources a suitable helicopter close to each filming location and brings its own pilots and camera crews. It says it works anywhere in the UK and abroad, and that it has flown in some very difficult places to gain permission, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Russia.

The company supplies helicopter mounted gimbal systems, heavy lift drones, light lift and FPV drones, camera tracking vehicles and lighting drones. It also offers helicopter rental. The company owns a large fleet of helicopter gimbal systems and a 40 foot filming boat called Cambria for work on water.

Cameras the company can fly include the Sony Venice 2, the ARRI Alexa Mini, LF and 35, RED Raptor, and film cameras such as the ARRI 416 and 435. The company says its drone permissions in the UK are among the strongest, with heavy lift aircraft able to fly 10 meters from people and buildings where it is safe to do so.

The company says it has worked on more than 300 credited productions, including Bond films, the Harry Potter series and Mission Impossible films. The company was founded in the late 1970s and has a history of more than 40 years in aerial work. It is a patron of the British Society of Cinematographers.

Services

• Helicopter filming
• Heavylift drone filming
• FPV drone filming
• Light lift drone filming
• Helicopter rental
• Tracking solutions
• Lighting drones
• Camera systems