500+ productions · 23+ years · Newport Beach
Yacht Videography On the Water
Mag Bay 33 — aerial across the Mojave.
Hilo Motion Pictures makes yacht videography and boat videography from Newport Beach: running passes, helm and deck, and aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline, cut for your website and social.
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Mag Bay 33 — Miami, FL leg
Featured: Mag Bay Yachts
Mag Bay Yachts builds sport-fishing boats, and the Mag Bay 33 Center Console is the one we have followed coast to coast. We tracked it on its overland leg out of Newport Beach, across the Mojave, onto the water at Lake Havasu and all the way to Miami. Aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline; the Miami and Arizona shoots were made alongside Black Sail Media.
Yacht Video Samples
Mag Bay 33 launch film
Mag Bay Yachts · Mag Bay 33
Launch film with aerial and deck-level running passes.
Luxury yacht and marine reel
Yachts, marinas and open water
On-water and aerial footage cut as one reel.
On the water with Mag Bay Yachts
Sunrise runs, high-speed chase shots, underwater angles and night lighting from our Mag Bay Yachts 33 shoots in Miami and Arizona.
What Is Yacht Videography?
Yacht videography is a directed film of a boat: running passes at speed, the helm, the deck and the water around it, plus aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline. Like all our boat videography, it starts with a shot list, is filmed with cinema-grade cameras with cinema lenses, then edited and graded for your website and social.
The boat at speed, shot pass by pass.
The controls, the layout, the details.
The boat and the water from above.
One shoot, every format you need.
What We Shoot Afloat
Builder Launch Films
A yacht promotional video for a new model, like our Mag Bay 33 work: the hull, the run and the details, cut as one launch film.
Sport-Fishing Boats at Speed
Yacht videography for sport-fishing boats: running passes planned around the route, the light and the sea state, so the speed reads on screen.
Marine Videography on Open Water
Marine videography offshore and along the coast, where the boat is built to run, filmed with the same crew as every yacht videography shoot.
Aerial Cinematography
Aerial passes directed by Timothy Kline, cut into the same yacht videography film. More on our drone videography.
Social Cuts From the Same Shoot
Boat video production that delivers short vertical and square edits from the same footage as the main film.
For Builders, Brokers and Charter Fleets
Boat videography made for selling or chartering: the running shots, the deck and the layout a buyer or guest wants to see before they step aboard.
Add to Your Yacht Film
Two extras you can fold into the same boat videography shoot.
Hyperlapse, Time-lapse and Aerial
Hyperlapse and time-lapse are rare in yacht video. We shoot them on the same production, so the marina, the coast and the run all move in one film.
Cinematic Establishing Shots
Establishing shots and a brand sizzle cut from the same shoot: the coastline, the light and the people, so the boat opens your story instead of starting it cold.
How a Yacht Shoot Works
The boat, where the film plays and the dates. You get one clear plan.
A shot list written like a commercial, with the route, light and water planned for the running passes.
Director and crew with cinema-grade cameras with cinema lenses, on the water and in the air.
Edit, sound and color grading, graded to a Hollywood Technicolor standard. Two review rounds included.
The full film for your website, plus social cuts from the same shoot.
Get a Free Quote Give us the number and we'll build the scope to it.
Director-Led Boat Videography
Every yacht shoot is directed by Timothy Kline | CEO & Primary Director. He plans the passes, sets every frame and sits in the edit, so your boat videography is cut with one point of view from the dock to delivery. Hire a yacht videographer and you get the director himself, not a crew sent alone. More on our Orange County video production.
- 500+ productions since 2003
- Cinema-grade cameras with cinema lenses
- Aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline
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What is yacht videography?
Yacht videography is filming a boat the way buyers picture it: running at speed, at the helm, on deck and from the air. At Hilo Motion Pictures, Timothy Kline directs every yacht shoot, with a crew and cinema-grade cameras with cinema lenses, then edits and grades the film for your website and social.
How much does yacht video production cost?
Cost follows scope: how many days on the water, how many locations, whether the film adds aerial cinematography or hyperlapse, how many cuts you need, and whether the boat travels. Tell us the boat and where the film will play, send the quote form, and we'll build the scope to your number.
How do you film a boat at speed?
We plan the running passes before anyone leaves the dock: the route, the light, the sea state and where the camera sits for each pass. Then we shoot from the water and the air, so the speed runs, the helm and the deck details all cut into one film.
Do you shoot aerial footage of yachts?
Yes. Aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline is part of our boat videography, cut into the same film as the footage shot on the water. For Mag Bay Yachts we filmed the Mag Bay 33 from the air and on the water, in Miami and at Lake Havasu.
Do you film yachts outside Orange County?
Yes. We film across Orange County and travel when the boat does. Our yacht work for Mag Bay Yachts includes shoots in Miami and at Lake Havasu, Arizona, made alongside Black Sail Media, with aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline.
What do you need from us before a yacht shoot?
Tell us the boat, where it will be, the dates that work and where the film will play: your website, social or a launch. We plan the running passes, the light and the shot list around that before the shoot day, and confirm every detail with you in writing.
What happens after the shoot?
We edit, color grade and deliver your yacht film in every format you need: a full film for your website, plus shorter cuts for social. Color grading is included in every Hilo production, and every film gets two review rounds before final delivery.
Yacht Videographer Near Me
We work from a private Orange County studio (location shared after booking) and a second studio in Dana Point / San Juan Capistrano. We film across Newport Harbor, Lido Isle, Balboa, Dana Point Harbor and the Orange County coast. When the boat travels, we travel: our Mag Bay Yachts work took us to Miami and Lake Havasu, Arizona.
Looking for yacht videography near me, or a boat videographer near me? Our yacht video production in Newport Beach and our yacht video production in Orange County start the same way: the boat, the water and the dates. See our Newport Beach video production page for the rest of our local work.
Case Study
Yacht Video Case Study
Mag Bay Yachts · 2016
The Mag Bay 33, Shot Like a Feature
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Mag Bay Yachts — Mag Bay 33 Launch Film, 2016
The relationship started with the original Mag Bay 33 film: a sport-fishing boat shot like a feature, with aerial passes and deck-level speed runs, graded for deep ocean blues. Aerial cinematography directed by Timothy Kline. Cut for the builder's website and social. Mag Bay later brought us back for Miami and Lake Havasu, made alongside Black Sail Media.
Your Boat. Like a Movie.
Tell us the boat, the water and where the film will play. Your yacht videography quote comes back with a shot list. Give us the number and we'll build the scope to it.
Hilo Motion Pictures · 220 Newport Center Dr #11-248, Newport Beach, CA 92660 · (949) 449-4472 · director@hilomotionpictures.com · Mon–Sun 8:00 AM–8:00 PM
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