Post by Jonathan Knowles

Photographer and filmmaker specialising in drinks, liquids, food and beauty. Based in London, shooting worldwide.

What you're watching is not VFX. Not CGI. Not AI. A glass suspended in mid-air. Ice, garnish and liquid arriving inside it at the same instant. All in a single in-camera take, robotically controlled, happening in a fraction of a second. The BTS that follows shows the part nobody sees: the iteration, the patience, the thousand tiny adjustments that turn physics into film. Many teams might send this straight to post. We shot it in our studio. SEE THE UNSEEN is our working method. Every project starts with the same question: what can the camera reveal that the eye can't? We experiment until we find the answer. The kit lives here. Our motion control robot and 4K Phantom high-speed camera are in-house and on standby, so iterations happen in minutes, not days. Ideas that get cut elsewhere for being "too risky" are simply things we can solve. When an agency producer needs a shot that "shouldn't be possible," we can rehearse it, refine it and capture it without a single outsider in the chain. Liquid and beverage, product hero films, high-speed practical effects, choreographed motion. If it lives in this area of cinematography, it can be made here. And we love a challenge. What’s the hardest in-camera shot you've ever had to brief?

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