TimeSake Media
Coleman Gellatly · TimeSake Media · Est. 2025

Real estate, drone & brand films
for Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Editorial photography, cinematic film and SACAA-compliant aerials for luxury agents, developers and hospitality brands. Shot, cut and colour-graded end-to-end by Coleman.

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Ventore · Aerial reel — watch in 1080p
Cities
02
Services
11
Suburbs
70+
Shoots · '24–'26
180+
Drone
SACAA
Reply
< 24h
Recent work

Frames from the last quarter.

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Leloko living room, editorial daylight interior
Leloko Estate, Hartbeespoort
Drone plate over a Cape Town property
Camps Bay, Cape Town
Kitchen and dining, morning light
Leloko Estate
Bedroom with garden view
Leloko Estate
Aerial exterior of estate villa
Ventore
Twilight exterior with lit interiors
Leloko Estate
Bathroom detail with brass fittings
Leloko Estate
Open-plan living into garden
Leloko Estate
Aerial plate — golf course frontage
Ventore
Staircase with warm afternoon light
Leloko Estate
Second bedroom, north-facing
Leloko Estate
Kitchen island detail
Leloko Estate
Aerial exterior with mountain backdrop
Ventore
Living room evening warm
Leloko Estate
Bathroom detail
Leloko Estate
Guest bedroom with textured headboard
Leloko Estate
Aerial exterior of estate villa
Aerial plate — golf course frontage
Aerial exterior with mountain backdrop
Featured case study

Aerial footage of a Cape Winelands wine farm

Ventore is an international group investing in Cape Town property. This was a wine farm they were acquiring in a private sale, so there is deliberately little story to tell about the transaction — the footage exists because the place was worth flying while we were there.

A cinematic aerial reel and a hero still set for the group's internal and investor-facing use. Further footage from their Camps Bay hotel project is in progress and will be published once the client releases it.

Read the full case study →
Studio services

Ten services. One studio.

Every service explained with the frames and reels behind it. Hover a slider to pause; click a dot to jump.

Editorial interior of Leloko Estate lounge, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
01Property

Real Estate Photography

Editorial stills that sell properties faster.

Real estate photography in South Africa lives or dies on Property24 and Private Property. A buyer with a R3.5m budget scrolls 40 listings on a Sunday afternoon — the ones that make the shortlist are the ones where the first image reads immediately. Straight verticals, even ceiling exposure, no orange lamp-light bleed into a daylight window, and a wide-enough angle to show the space without warping the couch into a fisheye. That is what we shoot for.

  • 20–35 hand-edited high-resolution images
  • Property24 / Private Property optimised web set
  • Twilight exterior on request
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
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Reel
02Property

Real Estate Videography

Cinematic property films that get shared.

A property video is not a photo slideshow with music. It is a story cut in 60 to 90 seconds that carries the viewer from the entrance gate, through the way the house lives, out onto the view, and back to a considered close on the light. Done well, it is the single asset that gets a Cape Town Atlantic Seaboard home or a Sandton estate villa shared by every friend of the seller before the listing is even open — done poorly it looks like every other flat, aerial-only fly-through on the timeline.

  • 60–90 second master film in 4K
  • 9:16 vertical cut for Instagram & TikTok reels
  • 16:9 landscape master for YouTube & MLS
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Watch in 1080p
Reel
03Property

Drone Photography & Video

Airspace-aware aerials of coast, estate and skyline.

Aerial photography changed what a property listing looks like. The plate that shows the boundary line, the driveway, the pool and the neighbouring lots in one frame does more to justify an asking price than any number of interior shots. It also shows the thing a ground-level camera can never show: where the property sits. The mountain behind it, the greenbelt beside it, the walk to the beach, the distance to the highway. Buyers make a shortlist decision on that single frame.

  • 8–15 aerial stills, hand-edited
  • Optional 30-second aerial reel
  • Airspace planning, consent and site brief
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate living space, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
04Property

Virtual Tours & 3D Walkthroughs

Matterport-style dollhouse tours that keep buyers on the listing.

A 3D virtual tour is the closest thing to a physical viewing without booking a Sunday afternoon. For higher-value stock in the Atlantic Seaboard, Constantia, Hyde Park or Sandton, it does the qualifying work that used to eat an agent's calendar — the international buyer in London or Dubai moves through the home on their laptop, decides whether the layout works, and only asks for a video call viewing when they are serious. That saves the seller three months of unqualified traffic through the house and cuts the agent's time-per-listing meaningfully.

  • Full-property 3D scan
  • Hosted tour link (12 months hosting included)
  • Embeddable iframe for the listing
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Aerial still of Ventore estate frame 610, SACAA-compliant drone photography over Johannesburg
05Property

Commercial Property Media

Office, retail and industrial media for landlords and brokers.

Commercial property media is not scaled-up residential — it is a separate discipline built around the leasing brochure, the yield story and the tenant experience. A landlord or a broker marketing an A-grade office in Sandton, a light-industrial warehouse in Cape Town's Airport Industria, or a retail centre in Fourways needs imagery that supports the asking rent and answers the tenant's practical questions before the site visit: what is the parking ratio, what does the reception look like tenanted, how is the loading bay laid out, and what does the walk from the parking to the front door actually feel like.

  • 40+ commercial stills
  • Loop-friendly 45s video
  • Site plan aerial
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
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Reel
06Brand & Content

Social Media Content

A month of scroll-stopping reels, stills and stories, in one shoot day.

A social media content shoot is a production day that pays back for a month. Instead of a founder juggling their iPhone every second morning trying to make a reel between meetings, we plan a single shoot day around the brand calendar — product pushes, behind-the-scenes, founder-in-frame, quiet ambient B-roll — and deliver a month's worth of native-format content, cut and captioned, ready to schedule. That is the difference between a brand that shows up consistently on Instagram and TikTok, and one that goes quiet for three weeks and posts twice on a Sunday night.

  • 12–20 short-form videos (9:16 + 1:1)
  • 40+ hand-edited stills for grid and stories
  • Captions & hook lines per asset
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate guest bedroom, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
07Events

Event Coverage

Launches, conferences, private dinners — same-night highlight reels.

Event coverage is a discipline of judgement more than technique. Anyone can point a camera at a keynote speaker; the harder skill is knowing when to move quietly, when to shoot from the back, when to shoot from the front, and when to leave the room entirely so the moment can happen without a lens in it. Corporate conferences, product launches, brand activations, press events and private dinners across Cape Town and Johannesburg all reward a photographer who understands the run of show and disappears when they are not needed.

  • 150–400 hand-edited event stills
  • 60-second same-night highlight reel (9:16 + 16:9)
  • 3-minute long-form recap film
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate living space, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
08People

Corporate Headshots & Interviews

Studio-grade portraits and camera-ready leadership interviews.

A corporate headshot is the single most-shared image of most professionals — LinkedIn, About pages, media bios, conference programmes, board decks. Getting it right means bringing a consistent studio-quality light into the client's own office rather than dragging 40 executives to a studio for one hour each. Getting the interview edit right — the piece that runs on the annual report landing page or in the investor update — means treating the executive like a person, not a talking head, and cutting for warmth as much as for clarity.

  • 1 polished master headshot per person + 3 alternates
  • Colour + black & white versions
  • LinkedIn-cropped web set
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
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Reel
09Brand & Content

Podcast Production

Multi-camera studio-lit podcast episodes, ready to publish.

A podcast that only ships as an MP3 in 2026 is leaving audience growth on the table. The video-first podcast — three cameras, studio lighting, tight audio, and eight to twelve vertical clips built from the same shoot — is what pulls new listeners in from TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels while the long-form episode does the retention work. TimeSake Media builds those production days for founder-led podcasts, brand podcasts and interview shows across Cape Town and Johannesburg.

  • 3-camera 4K episode master (up to 90 minutes)
  • Isolated audio stems + master mixdown
  • 8–12 vertical short-form clips per episode
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate bathroom, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
10Property

Interior, Trade & Design Photography

Kitchens, bathrooms, bulkheads, joinery and exteriors shot for the people who built them.

A finished bathroom photographs very differently to a listed house. An agent needs the room to feel liveable in three seconds; a designer or an installer needs the photograph to prove a decision — the mitred edge on the stone, the shadow gap under the bulkhead, the way the tile course lands on the niche, the tolerance on a handleless drawer front. Most trade work is photographed by whoever was on site with a phone at handover, which is why so many excellent South African installers have portfolios that undersell them badly.

  • 30–60 hand-edited frames: wide room, mid, and craft detail
  • Optional 20–40 second vertical detail reel
  • Named, alt-texted files in web and print resolution
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
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Reel
11Brand & Content

Talking-Head & Educational Video

Interview and educational video that makes an expert sound like the expert.

The most durable content any expert owns is themselves explaining something properly. A property agent walking through what a body corporate levy actually covers. A stone supplier explaining why one slab is double the price of another. A designer talking through why a bathroom layout was moved 400mm. That kind of video does something an advert cannot: it transfers trust before the first meeting, and it keeps working for years because the question keeps being asked.

  • 5–12 minute long-form interview edit, captioned
  • 8–12 vertical 30–60 second cuts with burnt-in captions
  • B-roll pass of the work being discussed
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Coverage

Every suburb, on the ground.

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Process

Four steps. No agency overhead.

  1. 01
    Brief

    Five-minute call. We look at the property on satellite, pick a shoot window, and quote in writing the same day.

  2. 02
    Shoot

    On site — photo, video, drone. Every frame is composed to camera, nothing is 'fixed in post'.

  3. 03
    Edit

    Colour graded on a calibrated monitor. Hand-edited stills. Cinematic cut with licensed music.

  4. 04
    Deliver

    WeTransfer link inside the promised turnaround. Web set, master files, paid-media licence.

Before you brief a shoot.

Property listings and developments, cinematic property film, drone stills and video, interior and trade photography for designers and installers, talking-head and educational video, corporate portraits and interviews, social content, podcasts and events. Coleman Gellatly shoots every job personally in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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