Travel film
Your trip as a short film: one place — a morning lane in Higashiyama or an evening street in Shinjuku — cut with licensed music into a 30–45 second film and a vertical version for your phone. Add extra hours to film a second spot.
- Starting from
- $430
- Duration
- 30 min
- You receive
- 30–45 s film + 15 s vertical cut
- Delivery
- within 7 days
Video
What’s included
- A 30–45 second film with licensed music
- A 15-second vertical cut for phones
- Filmed handheld and on a gimbal, no tripods
- Delivered within 7 days
Add to the booking
Bought with this shoot, never on their own. Fixed prices in US dollars.
Hair & make-up artist
+$100
Extra hour
+$150
Drone add-on
+$235
Mandarin-speaking assistant
+$70
Inspiration
Travel film: ideas for your shoot
Frames by photographers on Unsplash, credited below — the mood to plan your own shoot against, not our portfolio.
Photos: Micah & Sammie Chaffin, Mylène Larnaud, Gregoire Jeanneau, Guilherme Stecanella, Nadzeya Matskevich on Unsplash
Where to book it
Book Travel film where you are staying
Bookable in 19 places across Japan; the 2 below have a page of their own. Choose the one nearest your hotel — travel within it is included.
Plan around the place
Travel film: where it works best, and what to read first
About this shoot
Thirty minutes, forty-five seconds
- Starting from
- $430
- Duration
- 30 min
- Video
- 30–45 s film + 15 s vertical cut
- Places
- 19
Thirty minutes of filming become a 30 to 45 second film, plus a 15-second vertical cut for the phone. That ratio is normal: each scene needs a wide, a close-up and a moving shot, and only the best few seconds of each survive the edit. The shoot is planned like a short story — arriving, walking, a meal or a view, a quiet moment — so the film has a shape rather than being a sequence of poses. A longer story across several places is filmed with extra hours at $150 each.
Filming in Japan is done handheld on a gimbal. Tripods are banned at many temples and stations, and some places, including several Kyoto temples, prohibit commercial filming without prior application; we confirm the venue’s rules when booking. Early mornings help here too, since a film with crowds behind you is hard to edit cleanly.
Music is licensed for personal social use, so the film can be posted without being muted. Aerial shots can be added with the drone add-on, but only where flights are allowed — never over city centres, temples or crowds.
You receive the film and the vertical cut within 7 days, in full resolution for keeping and in a compressed version for sharing.
Before you book
Frequently asked questions: Travel film
Can we choose the music?
From a licensed library, yes — send us a few tracks you like and we find something close. Commercial pop songs are blocked or muted on most platforms, so we do not cut to them.
Is there sound, or only music?
Both. We record ambient sound — a temple bell, a train door, footsteps on gravel — and mix it under the music. Spoken lines can be recorded with a small clip microphone if you want them.
Next step
Plan your Travel film
We reply within 2 hours, 9:00–21:00 Japan time. No deposit required to enquire.