Work

What each project was, who made it, and the part we played in it. Most of these films are someone else’s, with us on one part of them: flying the drone, running the camera, stitching the footage or leading the technical side.

Common Ground
A room-scale virtual reality documentary about the Aylesbury Estate in south London, selected for Tribeca in 2019. We shot its moving 360 footage, from a drone and a rover dolly.
Year
2019
Our part
Moving 360 footage, from a drone and a rover dolly
Growing a World Wonder
A virtual reality film for the UN about the Great Green Wall, told through the eyes of Binta, an eight-year-old girl in Senegal. It premiered to world leaders at COP21 in Paris in 2015. We flew the 360 drone.
Year
2015
Our part
The 360 drone, flown by Ben Huss-Smickler and Sununu Hernandez
Fire safety VR film, for ADT
A 360 film that puts the viewer inside a house fire, made by The Gate Films for ADT and the agency Harte Hanks, and directed by Martin Percy. We were the camera team, with Ben Huss as director of photography.
Year
2018
Our part
The camera team: director of photography and camera operator
Prepare for the Unexpected
A 360 film for the Scottish Government and Road Safety Scotland’s Country Roads campaign that puts the viewer in the driver’s seat on a country road at night. We were its VR director of photography, and stitched the footage.
Year
2018
Our part
VR director of photography, then stitching the 360 footage
Grenfell mindfulness series
A series of virtual reality mindfulness films for the NHS’s Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service, which was set up after the Grenfell Tower fire. Made in 2019 with The Fred Company; Ben Huss was technical lead.
Year
2019
Our part
Technical lead (Ben Huss): the 360 video, VR, spatial audio and the app
Mamie’s Dream
Plan International’s first virtual reality film, the story of Mamie, a 22-year-old in Sierra Leone who fought to become one of very few female teachers in her community. Made by Surround Vision and directed by Mary Matheson; we flew the 360 drone.
Year
2016
Our part
Flying the 360 drone
NATALIE_4.0, for Jisc
A branching virtual reality experience of a student’s day in 2029, made for Jisc’s Digifest in 2019 by Make Real and The Fred Company. Ben Huss was a co-producer and the technical lead.
Year
2019
Our part
Co-producer and technical lead (Ben Huss), with The Fred Company
Reality Check, for The Children’s Society
Three 360 school scenarios, co-designed with young people, for a pilot by The Children’s Society in which they could practise coping techniques in VR. Ben Huss was technical lead, with The Fred Company. The project won two Vodafone Techstarter awards in 2019.
Year
2018–19
Our part
Technical lead and co-producer (Ben Huss), with The Fred Company
First Day: On Set and First Day: In Post, for ScreenSkills
Two stereoscopic 360 films, funded by the BFI, that ScreenSkills commissioned to inspire the next generation behind the camera: one on a working film set at Pinewood, one in a post-production house. Ben Huss was immersive specialist on First Day: In Post, and Sununu Hernandez, of our team, filmed First Day: On Set in 360 3D.
Year
2019–20 (On Set) and 2022 (In Post)
Our part
Immersive specialist on First Day: In Post (Ben Huss); filming First Day: On Set in 360 3D (Sununu Hernandez)
Trust the Medicine
Helen Knowles’s participatory artwork and 360 film about what is at stake when psychedelic intelligences look after human health, first shown at Science Gallery London in December 2023. Ben Huss was its immersive technologist.
Year
2023
Our part
Immersive technologist (Ben Huss)
World Nomad Games
We filmed the 2018 World Nomad Games, a tournament of traditional nomadic sports held in Kyrgyzstan, in 360 for Arte’s TRACKS.
Year
2018
Our part
360 filming at the Games
Red Sea coast cinematic VR film
A cinematic VR film of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, made with Jaunt and shown in an immersive dome at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh. We flew the drones for its aerial footage.
Year
2018
Our part
Flying the drones: ten days of aerial filming
Majlis al-Jinn, for the Oman National Museum
Majlis al-Jinn is a vast cave chamber in Oman, reached by a 140m free descent on a rope. We planned the shoot in VR from a LiDAR scan of the cave, then filmed inside it for the Oman National Museum.
Year
2019
Our part
Planning the shoot in VR, and filming in the cave
NHS Tower Hamlets 360 VR training videos
A series of 360 VR training videos for NHS Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, made in 2020, covering anxiety, schizophrenia and suicide.
Year
2020
Monaco Yacht Show, in 360
We covered the 2018 Monaco Yacht Show in 360 video, filming the superyachts, the exhibits and the marine technology so viewers could look around the show as if they were there.
Year
2018
Our part
360 video coverage of the show
Flying humans over London, for giffgaff
A publicity stunt for the mobile network giffgaff: human figures that seemed to fly over London, past the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye. We designed and programmed the custom drones, and led the four pilots who flew them.
Year
2015
Our part
Designing and programming the drones, and leading the four pilots
The Powerpuff Girls over Dubai
Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, Cartoon Network’s Powerpuff Girls, flown in formation on drones over Dubai, past the Burj Al Arab and the Burj Khalifa. We were part of the team, designing the custom drones and choreographing the flights.
Year
2016
Our part
Custom drone design, programming and choreography
360 photography for National Grid
National Grid commissioned 360 photography of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, before and after its overhead power lines were buried. We made the “before” record: the landscape as it was, ahead of the work.
Year
2021
Our part
360 photography
Trinity House 360
A 360 video for Trinity House, the 500-year-old body that keeps sailors safe around the English coast, made with Beeston Media. We flew the 360 drone for its aerial footage, and advised on shooting in 360.
Year
2019
Our part
Aerial 360 drone footage, and advice on 360 production
Containerville virtual tour
We photographed Containerville’s workspaces, built from upcycled shipping containers, in 360 and made the photographs into a virtual tour, so people who might work there can explore it before they visit.
Year
2021
Our part
360 photography and the virtual tour
Ashley College virtual tour
An interactive 360 tour of Ashley College, so new pupils could look round before they started, and a 360 guide to public transport for its current pupils.
Year
2019
Our part
The 360 tour and the 360 transport guide