TimeSake Media.
Selling you back time in your day.
Coleman Gellatly's photography and videography studio, working across Cape Town, Johannesburg, the Winelands and Hartbeespoort. Eleven services, one studio — everything you need in one document.
Real Estate Photography
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
- Full delivery within 24 hours
Real Estate Videography
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
- Licensed music, colour graded, delivered via WeTransfer link
Drone Photography & Video
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
- GPS-logged shot list
Virtual Tours & 3D Walkthroughs
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
- Dollhouse and floorplan view
Commercial Property Media
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
- White-labelled for the broker
Social Media Content
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
- Content calendar in Notion or Google Sheets
Event Coverage
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
- PR-ready press image selection
Corporate Headshots & 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
- Optional 90-second interview edit per subject
Podcast Production
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
- Episode cover stills + guest headshot
Interior, Trade & Design Photography
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
- 24-month licence for installer, designer and supplier credits
Talking-Head & Educational Video
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
- Full dialogue edit: silence, EQ, de-noise, loudness match
Built so local agents can actually afford it.
The Essential
Everything a listing needs to stop the scroll.
- Full high-resolution photo suite
- 1 cinematic walkthrough video
- 1 vertical video for Reels and TikTok
- 1 quick on-camera intro
The Professional
The listing, plus you in front of it.
- Everything in The Essential, plus:
- 1 dedicated talking-head video
- Lifestyle content — photos and verticals of you in action
The Omnipresence
Enough content to stay visible all month.
- Everything in The Professional, plus:
- The Monthly Spotlight video — a 2–3 minute deep dive
- The Social Boost — 2 extra vertical videos
Price on request.
Developments, monthly brand retainers and commercial interior work are scoped per brief, so we quote rather than publish a figure.
The Development
A full campaign for a development, estate or off-plan launch.
- Multi-day photography across units, common areas and the site
- Cinematic launch film plus vertical cutdowns per unit type
- Drone stills and video of the site, position and surrounds
- Progress coverage across build stages where the programme needs it
Quoted on the number of units, shoot days and build stages involved.
The Brand Retainer
A monthly content engine — educational talking heads, long and short form.
- Monthly shoot day producing long-form and short-form talking-head video
- Educational series planning — the questions your market actually asks
- Subtitled vertical cuts for Reels, TikTok and LinkedIn
- Stills bank for the month's posts and profile use
Quoted on shoot frequency, output volume and the retainer term.
The Commercial & Interiors
Brand-grade photography for interiors, trades and commercial property.
- Styled interior photography — kitchens, bathrooms, bulkheads and exteriors
- Detail and craft frames built for portfolio and supplier use
- Optional talking-head walkthrough with the designer or installer
- Commercial and industrial coverage, including drone where airspace allows
Quoted per site, on the rooms or areas covered and the licence you need.
Travel beyond the standard shoot radius is quoted at cost. Full package detail lives on the packages page.