TimeSake Media
Coleman Gellatly · TimeSake Media · Est. 2020

Real estate, drone & brand films
for Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Editorial photography, cinematic film and SACAA-compliant aerials for luxury agents, developers and hospitality brands. Shot, cut and colour-graded end-to-end by Coleman.

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Ventore · Aerial reel
Cities
02
Services
10
Suburbs
60+
Shoots · '24–'26
180+
Drone
SACAA
Reply
< 24h
Recent work

Frames from the last quarter.

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Leloko living room, editorial daylight interior
Leloko Estate, Hartbeespoort
Drone plate over a Cape Town property
Camps Bay, Cape Town
Kitchen and dining, morning light
Leloko Estate
Bedroom with garden view
Leloko Estate
Aerial exterior of estate villa
Ventore
Twilight exterior with lit interiors
Leloko Estate
Bathroom detail with brass fittings
Leloko Estate
Open-plan living into garden
Leloko Estate
Aerial plate — golf course frontage
Ventore
Staircase with warm afternoon light
Leloko Estate
Second bedroom, north-facing
Leloko Estate
Kitchen island detail
Leloko Estate
Aerial exterior with mountain backdrop
Ventore
Living room evening warm
Leloko Estate
Bathroom detail
Leloko Estate
Guest bedroom with textured headboard
Leloko Estate
Leloko living room, editorial daylight interior
Kitchen and dining, morning light
Bedroom with garden view
Twilight exterior with lit interiors
Featured case study

A five-bedroom family home at Leloko Estate

The agent needed a launch set that would carry the listing on Property24 and Private Property, plus a matching Instagram carousel. The home is a modern five-bedroom on a golf-front stand with generous glass elevations onto the fairway.

Full launch set delivered inside 24 hours. The listing was screenshotted onto three separate agent Instagram feeds inside the first 48 hours; two viewings booked in the same week.

Read the full case study →
Studio services

Ten services. One studio.

Every service explained with the frames and reels behind it. Hover a slider to pause; click a dot to jump.

Editorial interior of Leloko Estate lounge, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
01Property

Real Estate Photography

Editorial stills that sell properties faster.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Reel
02Property

Real Estate Videography

Cinematic property films that get shared.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Reel
03Property

Drone Photography & Video

SACAA-compliant aerials of coast, estate and skyline.

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. Done in South Africa, drone work also has to respect SACAA Part 101 airspace rules, private-property consent, and the very real limits of coastal wind — which is what separates a considered aerial package from a Mavic Mini flown by the seller's nephew.

  • 8–15 aerial stills, hand-edited
  • Optional 30-second aerial reel
  • Airspace planning and site brief
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate living space, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
04Property

Virtual Tours & 3D Walkthroughs

Matterport-style dollhouse tours that keep buyers on the listing.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Aerial still of Ventore estate frame 610, SACAA-compliant drone photography over Johannesburg
05Property

Commercial Property Media

Office, retail and industrial media for landlords and brokers.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Reel
06Brand & Content

Social Media Content

A month of scroll-stopping reels, stills and stories, in one shoot day.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate guest bedroom, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
07Events

Event Coverage

Launches, conferences, private dinners — same-night highlight reels.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Editorial interior of Leloko Estate living space, Hartbeespoort — daylight photography by TimeSake Media
08People

Corporate Headshots & Interviews

Studio-grade portraits and camera-ready leadership 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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Reel
09Brand & Content

Podcast Production

Multi-camera studio-lit podcast episodes, ready to publish.

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
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Reel
10Events

Weddings

Editorial wedding photography and film — Cape wine estates to Highveld gardens.

The wedding photographs and film are the only things that outlast the day. Everything else — the flowers, the food, the seating chart — is temporary; the images are what get printed, hung, sent to the parents and looked at ten years later. That is the pressure a wedding photographer works under, and it is the reason we approach every wedding as a full editorial production — two shooters, unobtrusive documentary through the ceremony and portraits, and a cinematic film cut for the couple with one short film for socials.

  • 500–800 hand-edited wedding photographs
  • 6–8 minute cinematic wedding film
  • 90-second social film + Instagram teaser
See case studies →Cape Town·JohannesburgEnquire
Coverage

Every suburb, on the ground.

Process

Four steps. No agency overhead.

  1. 01
    Brief

    Five-minute call. We look at the property on satellite, pick a shoot window, and quote in writing the same day.

  2. 02
    Shoot

    On site — photo, video, drone. Every frame is composed to camera, nothing is 'fixed in post'.

  3. 03
    Edit

    Colour graded on a calibrated monitor. Hand-edited stills. Cinematic cut with licensed music.

  4. 04
    Deliver

    WeTransfer link inside the promised turnaround. Web set, master files, paid-media licence.

Book a shoot

Selling you back time in your day.

Cape Town, Johannesburg, and everything the light hits. Every quote starts with a five-minute call.

Request a quote →WhatsApp Colehello@timesakemedia.co.za