Filming from a balloon | Video & TV Production

Filming from a balloon offers a very stable camera platform. Airship & Balloon Company owns a number of un-branded hot air balloons, which can be used for filming and TV. We regularly work with the main broadcasters and independent production companies and our balloons can carry cameraman, director and presenter - something a drone can’t do! ABC holds a UK Civil Aviation Authority Declared Balloon Operator Certificate and is a BBC Approved Aerial Filming Contractor - allowing them to film from our balloons. We also have a long association with a number of professional cameraman, including Lee Curran. Lee came to Marrakech with us, to film Richard Branson’s last Global Challenge flight for BBC and has produced our own Corporate Videos, the ‘Dog’ videos for Churchill and the Despicable Me2 video for Universal Pictures. Lee has flown with Nick Langley many times and has produced stunning aerial and ground-based images for our Clients. At the 2019 Bristol Fiesta, we flew Photographer Nick Smith and his wife, BBC Presenter Ali Vowles. Ali produced a TV piece for BBC Points West and several interviews for her Saturday morning BBC Radio programme, during the flight.