Commercial Property Media.
Photography, video and drone for commercial landlords, industrial brokers, and hospitality groups. We work off the leasing brochure and the yield story — clean stills of the entrance and reception, a walk-through of typical floors, a drone plate of the parking, and a tenanted-look image set that supports asking rent.
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.
TimeSake Media shoots commercial property media for landlords, industrial brokers, hospitality groups and the corporate real estate teams that manage internal portfolios. Every mandate is planned off the leasing brochure so the shot list answers the yield questions the tenant will ask. We work under NDA where the mandate needs it, and we deliver white-labelled with no TimeSake watermark so the broker or the landlord can present the work as their own asset.
The commercial shot list
A well-planned commercial shoot delivers about 40 stills and one loop-friendly 45-second video across a single production day. The stills cover: signage and street elevation, entrance and reception tenanted-look, typical office floor at three angles, boardroom and pause area, kitchen and shower facility, service corridor, roof and plant space where relevant, and every parking level down to basement 3. A drone plate captures the site in its context — surrounding roads, arterials, distance to the closest Gautrain station or the N1 on-ramp. The video is cut as a slow motion piece designed to loop on the leasing landing page or the broker's website background.
Tenanted-look and NDA work
Office landlords rarely want to advertise 'currently vacant on floor 4' — the shots need to read tenanted whether the desks are occupied or not. We bring props where the brief calls for it: laptops, coffee cups, plants, a jacket on the back of a chair — enough to make the space feel used, never so much that it stages a business that does not exist. On active-tenant floors we shoot after hours or on Saturday mornings and blur any incidental person in the frame under POPIA. NDA cover is standard: we countersign the landlord or broker's agreement before the shoot and treat every file as commercial-sensitive.
Industrial and logistics-specific
Industrial mandates in Airport Industria, Killarney Gardens, Epping and Montague Gardens in Cape Town, or in City Deep, Jet Park and Longmeadow in Johannesburg, need a different rhythm: yard shots that show truck turning circles, roller-door and dock-leveller detail, gantry and crane detail on the shed floor, sprinkler and fire compartment shots where the marketing brochure calls for them, and a drone plate that reads the yard against the adjacent stands. Warehouse interiors are shot with high-CRI LED panels to correct the sodium and metal-halide fixtures that dominate on the shed floor, otherwise the frame goes green.
Retail centre coverage
Retail centre mandates — Fourways Mall, Blue Route Mall, Table Bay Mall, a strip centre in Bryanston or Constantia Village — need footfall reads and tenant-mix reads. We shoot during trading hours from angles that show the anchor tenants and the pause seating, and we schedule the empty-centre shots for early morning before opening so the finish and the flooring read cleanly. Drone context of the parking and the arterial access matters for the leasing brochure, and we work with centre management on filming permissions and shopper consent under POPIA.
Delivery, licensing and archive
Every commercial shoot ships as a white-labelled folder — no TimeSake branding — with a naming convention aligned to the leasing brochure so the broker can drag any frame straight into a proposal. Licensing runs for 36 months across leasing marketing, the landlord's website, PropTech portals like MSCI or Broll's listing site, and any paid campaign. The raw files stay on our archive for three years, which is roughly two leasing cycles for the average commercial mandate. Where the shoot is confidential — sold-under-terms or under offer — we cold-storage the files until the deal falls out of confidentiality and then release the archive for landlord use.
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