Looking for professional photography and videography without piecing together a photographer, production company, content creator, and marketing agency? That’s where we come in.
Our in-house team brings professional photographers, videographers, content creators and marketers together under one roof. Whether you need a glossy commercial, website video, product photography, team headshots, a bank of social content, or the whole lot, we can take it from the first idea to the final edit.
We conceptualise, storyboard, script, cast, scout, shoot and edit in-house, shaping the production around what your business actually needs rather than automatically turning every project into a blockbuster budget.
And our cameras have travelled a fair bit. We’ve created photography and video content across hospitality, education, property, drinks, retail, professional services and plenty more, working with businesses ranging from ambitious independents to international brands. That includes projects for Hotel Indigo, BuzzBallz, Golden Valley and Bristol Grammar School, alongside many of the businesses we work with every month across Cheltenham, Gloucester, the Cotswolds, Bristol and beyond.
Need a one-off shoot? We’re in. Want the cameras, content creators and social team working together every month? Even better.
Our social media packages can bundle photography, videography and content creation with strategy, copywriting, scheduling and publishing, giving you one team responsible for both making the content and knowing what to do with it afterwards. Get in touch to find out more.
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There’s more to great photography and videography than pointing a camera and hoping for the best. Mix the right idea with talented Cheltenham photographers, videographers and content creators, and you’ve got a recipe for content people actually notice. Here’s what we can cook up.
Stock imagery can only take you so far. We create brand and commercial photography built around your business, including product photography, headshots, team imagery, interiors, lifestyle content and location shoots. Every shoot is planned around where the images will actually be used, giving you a versatile bank of content for websites, social media, campaigns, advertising, PR and print.
Need something people will actually stop and watch? Our in-house videographers create everything from polished brand films and website videos to adverts, interviews and promotional content. We can handle the concept, scripting, storyboarding, casting, locations, filming, drone footage, editing and final cuts, all shaped around what you want the finished video to achieve.
Social content needs a slightly different recipe. We create Reels, TikToks, short-form videos, photography and reactive content designed around the platforms people actually use. Our content creators work alongside our photographers, videographers and social media team, giving you polished production where it matters and quicker, personality-led content when that’s what performs best.
Want the content created and taken care of afterwards too? We can bundle photography, videography and content creation into our social media management packages, alongside strategy, copywriting, scheduling, publishing and ongoing management. One team plans it, shoots it, edits it and gets it in front of the right people. Far fewer briefs, handovers and WhatsApp groups.
Brand videography is video content created to communicate who your business is, what you do and how you want people to feel about you.
It can include brand films, homepage videos, interviews, product videos, behind-the-scenes footage, customer stories and shorter edits for social media and advertising.
Unlike a straightforward promotional video, brand videography often focuses just as much on personality, values, people and atmosphere as it does on the product or service itself.
Commercial videography is professional video created for a business or organisation with a specific marketing or commercial purpose.
That might include an advert, promotional film, website video, recruitment campaign, product launch, testimonial, event film or social media campaign.
The important bit is that there should be a reason for making it. Good commercial videography should help your business sell, explain, educate, build awareness or influence how people see your brand.
There’s plenty of overlap. Commercial videography is the broader term for professional video created for business use. Brand videography sits within that and tends to focus more closely on identity, personality, values and storytelling.
A single production can easily do both. For example, a brand film might tell your story while also being used commercially across your website, advertising and social media.
Yes. Because our photographers and videographers work as part of the same in-house team, we can often capture still photography and video during the same shoot.
For example, a brand day could give you product photography, team headshots, website imagery, a brand film, several Reels and shorter advertising edits from one production.
It can also make far better use of your time and budget than arranging completely separate shoots.
Absolutely. It’s one of our bread-and-butter services.
Content Chef can create social media photography, Reels, TikToks, interviews, product content, adverts, event content and other short-form video.
You can book this as a standalone shoot or include regular photography, videography and content creation within one of our social media management packages.
A social media content creator plans, captures and produces content specifically for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and Facebook.
That can include photography, short-form video, interviews, Reels, TikToks and more reactive content.
At Content Chef, our content creators work alongside videographers, photographers, copywriters and social media specialists, so the content is created with the wider marketing strategy in mind rather than in isolation.
Yes, and this is where having everything in-house really comes into its own. At Content Chef, our social media packages can combine strategy, photography, videography, content creation, copywriting, scheduling, publishing and reporting.
Instead of one agency planning the content and another team creating it, everyone is working from the same brief and strategy.
Brand photography is professional photography created specifically around your business and visual identity.
Instead of relying on generic stock imagery, you build a library of original photographs featuring your products, people, premises, processes and personality.
These images can then be used consistently across your website, social media, advertising, email marketing, PR and printed materials.
Commercial photography is photography created to promote a business, product or service.
It can include product photography, food photography, interiors, hospitality photography, headshots, team imagery, lifestyle photography and advertising campaigns.
Brand photography is one type of commercial photography, but commercial shoots can also be much more product-led or campaign-specific.
Social media videography is video created specifically for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn.
It is usually shorter and designed around how people consume content on each platform, from Reels and TikToks to adverts, interviews, behind-the-scenes videos and quick reactive content.
That doesn’t mean everything has to look highly polished. Sometimes a professionally produced film is right. Sometimes a phone-style piece of content will perform better. Knowing the difference matters.
It depends entirely on what you need. A straightforward half-day brand photography shoot is very different from producing a commercial with actors, several locations, scripting and multiple edits.
We work with small businesses as well as large national and international brands, so professional content does not have to mean an enormous production budget. We’ll recommend the level of production that makes sense for your business and give you a clear quote before anything starts. In some cases, it can start from just £450.
No. Great content is about the idea, execution and knowing where the finished work will be used, not simply throwing money at a production.
We can scale shoots around different budgets, whether you need a straightforward photography session, regular social media content or a more ambitious commercial production.
If we think there’s a smarter way to achieve what you want without spending more, we’ll tell you.
Content Chef is based in Cheltenham, but we regularly provide photography and videography across Gloucester, Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, Bristol, Swindon and Worcestershire.
We also travel throughout the UK, including Birmingham, Manchester and London, and we’ve worked further afield and abroad where the project calls for it. So while we’re a Gloucestershire photography and videography agency, geography rarely stops us. If the brief is worth travelling for, we’ll pack the cameras.
Yes, where the project, location, conditions and relevant permissions allow. Drone photography and videography can work particularly well for property, construction, hospitality, tourism, education, events and businesses where the wider location forms an important part of the story.
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