Video for
people who
build things.
Construction, marine and industrial, land, and aerial production across the Florida Panhandle, the Big Bend, and South Georgia. Shot by a crew that shows up in boots and leaves with the footage.
- FAA Part 107
- Remote Pilot Certificate, commercial sUAS
- $1M General Liability
- Commercial policy, certificates on request
- $2M Aerial Liability
- Drone liability plus hull coverage
- Visual Observer
- Second crew member on all FPV operations
One take, straight through the job.
This is an active pile-driving site, flown between the driven piles at crew height. No cuts, no cheating, no drone shot a tripod company can match.
The full aerial story →
Most video companies have never stood in a mud pit at six in the morning. We started there.
850 Media Productions works for contractors, marine builders, land brokers, school districts, and trades across North Florida and South Georgia. That means job-site rules, insurance certificates, hard hats, and a schedule that does not care what the light is doing.
It also means the footage looks like a film, not a walkthrough. Documentary instincts pointed at commercial work. That is the whole company in one sentence.
Films about land, work, and the people who do it.
The documentaries came first. A feed mill turning one hundred, a river a whole county stood up for, a guide who built a life in the woods. The person who lived it tells it. No narrator.
Commercial work pays for the cameras. This is what the cameras are for, and it is the reason the commercial work looks like a film instead of a walkthrough.
What we get hired to do.
Construction & Industrial
Progress documentation, topping-out and keel-laying ceremonies, plant and facility tours, safety and recruitment films. Shot to your schedule, not ours, including before sunrise and inside active work zones.
General contractors, marine and industrial builders, developers
Real Estate & Land
Listing films and land tours for brokers who sell acreage, timber, hunting tracts, and estates. Ground and air in one visit, cut for MLS, social, and the broker's own channel.
Land brokers, luxury and estate agents, developers
Aerial & FPV
FAA Part 107 aerial work, plus true FPV: continuous one-take flights through buildings, under structures, and along equipment that a standard drone cannot fly. Insured to $2M with a visual observer on every FPV operation.
Anyone whose site is more impressive from the air than the parking lot
Brand & Documentary Film
The owner-operator story, the founder profile, the company film that has to work for ten years. Interview-led, cut for a specific job: sales, recruiting, or fundraising.
Owners, marketing directors, nonprofits, tourism boards
Events & Ceremonies
Steel cuttings, ribbon cuttings, groundbreakings, fundraisers, and award nights. One-shot events where nothing gets re-staged, covered with redundant audio and backup media.
Corporate marketing, municipalities, school districts, nonprofits
Monthly Retainers
A fixed monthly block of shooting and editing for companies that need content on a rhythm instead of once a year. Predictable cost, priority scheduling, and a library that compounds.
Retail brands, trades, dealerships, anyone running paid social
We have badges for the yard.
Hulls, keel layings, vessel deliveries and the trades that build them. A shipyard runs on its own clock and its own safety rules, and the footage only exists if you are cleared to be standing there when it happens.
The shot nobody else in the 850 can fly.
FPV is a different aircraft, a different license posture, and a different insurance conversation. One continuous take through a building under construction, down a production line, or along a hull in a shipyard. No cuts, no cheating.
Part 107 certified. $2M aerial liability plus hull coverage. Visual observer on every FPV flight. Airspace authorizations filed before we arrive, not the morning of.
JCI Contractors
JCI has built K-12, higher-ed, healthcare and government work out of Moultrie since 1989. This is the film about what happens before any of it: preconstruction around the table, the people who plan it, and the groundbreaking that follows.
Keel Laying Ceremony
A keel laying at Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City. Dignitaries, the anthem, and a program that runs exactly once. Multi-camera with a feed off the podium, because a shipyard does not re-stage a milestone for a camera.
Lake Park Demolition
The day the old building came down, cut vertical for the client's feed. Demolition is a one-take event: miss the wall coming down and it is gone.
Self-Perform Crews
Crews working an active site, cut vertical for hiring. Trades recruiting happens on a phone, so the deliverable is shaped for a phone.
Mission Metals
Owner-led brand piece for a roofing and metals company. Two people on camera, no narrator, cut to work for hiring and for sales at the same time. Shot on a freelance assignment for another production company.
Land With Lori
Broker-led land film built around the person who knows the property, not a drone reel with music over it. Ground and air in one visit, cut for the listing and for the broker's own channel.
St. George Island
A reel of the Forgotten Coast made for no client and no brief, shot on the stretch of coast Kyle was raised on. The lighthouse from directly above, the water tower at last light, the beach on an ordinary afternoon. Knowing a place well enough to know when to be standing there is most of the job.
- 01
Scope
A call, a walk of the site if it matters, and a written scope with a fixed number. You know the cost and the deliverables before anyone picks up a camera.
- 02
Shoot
We work around your operation. Job sites keep running, ceremonies start on time, and nobody waits on the film crew. Redundant media and backup audio on every job.
- 03
Cut
First cut delivered at roughly eighty percent. You give notes once, we fold them into the final pass. No open-ended revision loops billed by the hour.
- 04
Deliver
Final files in every format you need: horizontal, vertical, captioned, web-compressed. The footage is yours, archived on our end and available later.
No surprises on the invoice.
Most production companies make you sit through a discovery call to find out whether you can afford them. Here is the honest version.
- One number, agreed up front
- You get a fixed price for the whole job before anyone picks up a camera. It does not change because the shoot ran long.
- Editing is inside the price
- Post-production is scoped with the shoot. There is no separate hourly edit invoice waiting for you at the end.
- Travel and crew at cost
- Mileage, lodging, and any second shooter or audio operator are passed through at what they actually cost.
- Retainers beat one-offs
- A committed monthly block prices below single-job work, because a planned calendar is worth something to us.
- The footage is yours
- Final files and the underlying footage belong to you. We archive it so you can pull a clip in two years.
- What kind of video do you make?
- Video for people who build things. Construction progress and brand films, marine and industrial coverage, land and listing films, school district work, documentaries, and FAA Part 107 aerial including FPV. If your work happens on a job site, on the water, or on acreage, it is our kind of job.
- Where do you work?
- Based in Wakulla County, Florida, working the whole Panhandle, the Big Bend, and South Georgia: Tallahassee, Panama City, the Forgotten Coast, Destin and 30A, and up into Thomasville, Moultrie, and Bainbridge. We travel for the work.
- Can you get cleared for our job site?
- Yes. $1M general liability plus $2M aerial liability with hull coverage, and certificates naming your company as additional insured are usually same day. FAA Part 107 certified, with a visual observer on every FPV flight. Hard hats and boots are ours to bring.
- How does pricing work?
- One fixed number for the whole job, agreed before anyone picks up a camera, with editing included in that number. Travel and any added crew pass through at cost. Retained monthly work prices below one-off jobs, and the footage belongs to you.
- How fast can you start?
- Enquiries get a reply within one business day, and every job is scoped in writing before it starts. When something on your schedule cannot move, say so. One-take events like demolitions, pours, and ceremonies are a specialty.
Tell us what you are building.
Tallahassee · Panama City · Port St. Joe & the Forgotten Coast · Apalachicola & Franklin County · Destin & 30A · Wakulla & the Big Bend · Thomasville, GA · Moultrie & Bainbridge, GA