A Drone Shot Is Only as Powerful as the Story It’s Part Of.
Anyone can put a drone in the air. What happens next is where most productions fall short. At Valere Studios, aerial footage isn’t a standalone service — it’s a cinematic tool deployed as part of a larger story. One that’s been planned, lit, scored, edited, and distributed with the same broadcast-grade precision we bring to every production we touch.
FAA Part 107 certified. Nationwide. Integrated into every production we make.
Drone Footage Without a Story Is Just Footage.
Most drone operators deliver a file. We deliver a finished asset — color graded, sound designed, scored, and edited into your brand film, event documentary, social content suite, or broadcast package. The aerial shot is the opening frame of something larger, not the entire deliverable.
That distinction matters because a stunning aerial of your grand opening doesn’t do its job sitting in a Dropbox folder. It does its job in the first five seconds of your brand film when a prospect watches it before taking a meeting. It does its job in the opening of your 50th anniversary documentary when your team sees it on a ballroom screen. It does its job as the establishing shot that sets the tone for everything that follows.
That’s the difference between hiring a drone operator and hiring Valere Studios.
Where Aerial Footage Appears in Our Productions
Corporate Anniversary & Milestone Films
A 25th, 50th, or 100th anniversary film deserves an opening that matches the weight of the moment. Wide aerial establishing shots of your headquarters, your city, your facilities — grounding the viewer in the scale of what’s been built before the story begins. Drone footage integrated into milestone documentaries creates an immediate emotional register that no ground-based camera can replicate.
Special Events — Grand Openings, Galas & Conferences
Aerial coverage of your grand opening captures the arrival, the crowd, the building reveal, and the surrounding context in a single sweeping shot. For galas, outdoor events, and large-scale conferences, drone footage provides the establishing and overview coverage that gives your event recap film a cinematic scale. Delivered as part of your complete event production — not as a separate shoot requiring a separate call.
Brand Films & Omnichannel Film Engine™ Productions
Aerial B-roll is a standard component of our Omnichannel Film Engine™ shoots for service-oriented businesses. Exterior shots of your facility, your team’s working environment, your city — all captured cinematically and integrated into your anchor brand film and repurposed across your social content library. One shoot. Everything included.
Annual Meetings, Investor Days & Onstage Events
Establishing aerials of your event venue, your company campus, or your city serve as powerful transitional and opening assets in annual meeting presentations, investor day broadcasts, and onstage event films. We coordinate drone shoots around your event timeline so aerial footage is captured, edited, and ready for use within your production day.
Product & Service Launches
An aerial perspective adds scale and ambition to launch content. Whether it’s a sweeping shot of a new facility, a reveal of a construction project at completion, or an environmental establishing shot that frames your brand in its full context — drone footage gives launch films a cinematic quality that sets the tone for the campaign that follows.
Press Events & Major Announcements
When the media shows up, your production quality should match the significance of what you’re announcing. Aerial B-roll for press events is delivered same-day — formatted and packaged for immediate distribution to broadcast and streaming media outlets.
Corporate Photography — Aerial
High-resolution aerial photography of your facilities, campuses, and event locations — delivered as press-ready, high-resolution files for use in annual reports, marketing materials, website headers, and media kits. Not just a photo. A professional asset.
What a Drone Operator Delivers. What We Deliver.
A drone operator captures footage. What you receive is a file — raw or lightly edited — that then requires color grading, audio work, music licensing, integration into a larger edit, and a distribution plan before it does anything for your business.
Valere Studios handles everything that comes after the drone lands. Color grading matched to your brand palette. Professional scoring and sound design. Editing integrated into your full production. Social cuts optimized for every platform. Broadcast-quality masters ready for television, streaming, and internal communications.
You don’t need a drone vendor and a production company. You need one team that brings both — and knows how to make them work together.
FAA Certified. Production-Ready. Nationwide.
- FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate — commercially certified for all drone operations
- Nationwide availability — we travel for productions across the US
- Coordinated airspace planning for urban, restricted, and controlled environments
- Cinematic aerial cinematography integrated with Sony Cinema Line ground camera systems
- Same-day aerial footage delivery available for press events and time-sensitive productions
- 4K aerial video and high-resolution photography delivered broadcast and print ready
- Full production integration — aerial footage edited alongside ground-level camera, studio footage, and archival material in a single post-production pipeline
Aerial Production for Clients Who Can’t Afford to Get It Wrong.
We’ve provided aerial coverage for Fortune 500 events, 100-year anniversary films, corporate conference productions, investor day broadcasts, grand openings, and press events across Cincinnati and nationwide. Our clients include Kroger, DHL, Fox News, Reckitt, Schneider Electric, Home City Ice, Badger Daylighting, and altafiber.
When the moment is a once-in-a-generation milestone, a national investor broadcast, or a press event with a media audience — the aerial footage has to be right. We haven’t missed one yet.
How Aerial Production Works at Valere Studios
1. Pre-Production Planning
Every aerial shoot begins in pre-production — not on the day. We assess your location, airspace classification, shot list, and production timeline. For events, we coordinate the drone shoot around your production schedule so aerial captures happen at exactly the right moment without disrupting the program.
2. On-Location Capture
Our FAA-certified pilot deploys alongside your full production crew — not as a separate vendor, but as an integrated part of your shoot day. Ground cameras, audio, lighting, and aerial work together in a coordinated production — not in sequence.
3. Post-Production Integration
Aerial footage enters the same post-production pipeline as all other camera footage — color graded, scored, and edited into your final deliverables. You receive one cohesive production, not a collection of separately shot files that need to be assembled.
4. Delivery
Same-day aerial delivery available for press events and time-sensitive projects. Standard delivery within 48 hours as part of your complete production package.
Ready to Add Aerial to Your Production?
Tell us about your project — an anniversary, a launch, an event, a brand film — and we’ll show you exactly how aerial footage fits into what we’d build for you.