DARB · CONSTRUCTION TIME-LAPSE · REAL ESTATE

Document your real estate project frame by frame.

Long-form time-lapse photography for real estate and construction projects across Saudi Arabia. We install weather-protected camera rigs on your site, capture continuously for the full build duration, and deliver a marketing-grade film that compresses years of work into a single piece of cinema. From the first piling to the ribbon-cutting.

Riyadh-basedMulti-month coverage4K to 8KCloud-monitored
WHY TIME-LAPSE

Five reasons developers invest in time-lapse documentation.

Time-lapse for a real-estate project is not a single asset — it produces a library of footage that gets used across marketing, investor relations, internal record-keeping and public PR for years after the project lands.

01

Marketing & sales material

A finished time-lapse film is the single most compelling marketing asset a developer can hold. Buyers watching a building rise in 90 seconds remember it forever — and it converts in showrooms, on Instagram, in investor decks and on TV in a way that rendered footage simply cannot.

02

Investor & board presentations

Monthly progress films delivered to the board, the equity partners, the financing bank. The same footage that becomes the launch film also serves as a continuous, undeniable record of what was built, when, and by whom — exactly the format investors want to see at every milestone.

03

Public relations & launch

When the project launches, you have a hero film ready. National news, social platforms, the opening ceremony, the project's website — all served by a single high-production-value asset that you started capturing on day one, not commissioned in week 36 in a panic.

04

Construction progress monitoring

Daily and weekly stills available to the project team for actual construction tracking. Compare what was on the site this week vs three months ago. Useful when a question comes up about sequencing, claims, or who built what in which order.

05

Legal & insurance documentation

Continuous, time-stamped, geo-located visual record of the construction site. Useful when insurance, regulators or a dispute over scope of work appears at month 14. Cheap insurance against expensive arguments.

OUR RIG

What we install on your site.

Time-lapse is a hardware-first service. The film at the end is only as good as the rig that sat on the roof of the building for the previous eighteen months. We build, deploy and maintain professional-grade installations that survive Saudi summers, dust storms and remote-site power constraints.

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Camera & enclosure

Mirrorless and DSLR systems in custom weather-protected enclosures rated for Saudi outdoor conditions. Heat, dust, humidity, direct sun — the enclosure handles all of it and the camera inside keeps shooting on schedule.

  • Sony / Canon mirrorless + DSLR
  • Custom weatherproof enclosure
  • Heat-protected with active cooling
  • Dust and moisture sealed
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Capture resolution

Up to 8K still capture per frame, assembled into a 4K to 8K finished film at any frame rate you specify. Final output is broadcast-ready, conference-screen-ready, and large-format-print-ready for billboards.

  • 4K to 8K final delivery
  • RAW capture every frame
  • Configurable interval (1s – 1h)
  • Up to 60fps final film
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Power & connectivity

Solar power systems with battery backup for remote sites that don't have reliable mains. 4G/5G cellular connectivity for live monitoring, footage streaming and remote diagnostics — we know if the rig has a problem before you do.

  • Solar + battery for off-grid sites
  • 4G / 5G connectivity
  • Remote camera control
  • Automatic daily upload
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Cloud monitoring

Every installed rig reports to our cloud monitoring dashboard. We see capture rate, storage status, power level, battery health, network connectivity and exposure quality in real time. Issues get caught and fixed in days, not at the end of the project.

  • Real-time rig health monitoring
  • Daily footage backup
  • Exposure / colour QA automated
  • On-site visits monthly
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Multi-angle coverage

Major real-estate developments need more than one camera angle to do justice to the project. We deploy multi-camera rigs that capture the build from the angles that matter — facade, internal courtyard, aerial, contextual — and edit them into a single coherent film.

  • 1–6 camera rigs per project
  • Facade + aerial + interior
  • Synchronised capture
  • Single-film final edit
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Drone supplementation

Static cameras tell one story; aerial drone footage adds the scale and the context. We schedule licensed drone flights at key project milestones to capture footage that the fixed rigs can never produce — and integrate it into the final film.

  • Licensed drone operators
  • Quarterly aerial passes
  • 6K to 8K drone capture
  • Integrated final edit
HOW IT WORKS

From site survey to final film.

Every project follows the same six-step process. Steps one and two happen before any camera goes on-site; steps three to five run for the full build duration; step six lands when the project does.

01

Site survey

We visit the site to scout camera positions, assess power and connectivity, identify safety and security constraints, and plan the multi-angle coverage. Output is a site plan, a camera schedule and a clear quote for the project.

02

Installation & commissioning

Camera rigs are built, tested, transported and installed at the agreed positions. Each rig is commissioned and validated against the capture schedule before we leave the site.

03

Continuous capture

Cameras shoot on the configured schedule for the full build duration. Footage uploads daily to our cloud, the monitoring dashboard catches any issues, and a technician responds within 48 hours if a rig needs intervention.

04

Monthly footage delivery

Each month we deliver a short progress film and the raw footage from the period. The progress film is yours to share with stakeholders immediately; the raw footage feeds the final cut at the end of the project.

05

Quarterly drone shoots

At quarterly intervals (or aligned to project milestones), licensed drone operators visit the site and capture aerial footage that complements the static-camera record.

06

Final film production

When the project lands, our edit team assembles the full multi-camera footage, integrates the drone passes, scores the film, and delivers the master in the formats you specified at scoping — broadcast, vertical social, internal stakeholder cut, and large-format-print stills.

RECENT WORK

Projects we've documented across the Kingdom.

Three recent multi-month engagements. Client and project names are withheld per developer NDAs.

Mixed-use development · Riyadh

Three-camera rig + quarterly drone

22 months

Mixed-useMulti-cameraRiyadh

Major mixed-use development in north Riyadh needed continuous documentation from groundworks through topping-out. Required three camera angles, quarterly drone passes, monthly board-ready progress films, and a final launch hero film.

22 moof continuous documentation
3camera rigs + 9 drone passes
97sfinal launch film, delivered on day of opening
Hospitality landmark · Saudi coastline

Five-camera rig + monthly aerial

30 months

HospitalityCoastalMulti-structure

Coastal hospitality landmark required documentation across multiple structures rising in parallel, including specialised marine-facing camera rigs that could handle salt air, sand and intense sun.

30 moacross multiple structures
5salt-air-rated rigs
8Kmaster delivery + four social cuts
Residential community · Riyadh

Two-camera rig

14 months

ResidentialTwo-cameraRiyadh

Residential community of villas and amenities, documented to feed the sales gallery and a series of monthly stakeholder updates to the equity partners financing the project.

14 moof construction captured
14monthly stakeholder films
60+stills used in sales materials

Detailed references and demo reels available on request after NDA.

QUESTIONS WE GET

Frequently asked by developers.

From signed contract to first frame captured: two to three weeks. Week one is site survey and final equipment specification. Week two is rig fabrication. Week three is on-site installation, commissioning, and validation. We've completed installations in seven days when the project needed it, but three weeks is the comfortable default.
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