Electric Films is a global leader in high-end construction time-lapse photography and was internationally recognised as the Time-Lapse Specialist of the Year by BUILD Magazine in 2026. Based in Sydney, the company specialises in supplying premium time-lapse video production, and commercial drone photography for major joint ventures, commercial developments, and boutique construction projects. The company is led by Graeme Beck, a multi-award-recognised cinematographer with 14 Australian and 2 international awards.
Unlike standard automated site cameras, we bring an unparalleled level of cinematic quality to construction time-lapse photography in Sydney as well as regional NSW. We approach every industrial project with an artistic eye, ensuring your construction stages are photographed to our award-recognised standard.
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Electric Films won the 'Time-Lapse Cinematography Specialists of the Year' title in Build Magazine's Construction and Engineering Awards for our commercial construction time-lapse photography on the massive Parramatta City Centre Redevelopment in Sydney.
This long-term architectural time-lapse video earned prestigious recognition from the Australian Cinematographers Society, securing a Gold Award for standout time-lapse cinematography on 'The Building of Pirramimma' in the Blue Mountains..
Electric Films picked up another prestigious ACS Gold Award with the commercial site demolition video of 'Goldfields House Demolition' in Sydney's CBD.
Demonstrating our versatility with short-term time-lapse with multiple cameras, we were honoured with a Silver Award from the Australian Cinematographers Society for our video production of the 24hr set up of a new Samsung product launch at Sydney Opera House.
We don't just set and forget our time-lapse cameras. We actively monitor their output and relocate them when a better angle arises, avoiding repetitive, monotonous documentation from a single vantage point and deliver dynamic construction time-lapse videos.
Our specialty is installing time-lapse cameras on rooftops, scaffolding, cranes, and street poles. We scout for optimal vantage points and manage all liaising with building managers and local councils for our non-destructive camera mounting systems.
Attaching commercial time-lapse cameras to rooftops, scaffolding, cranes, and custom poles is our specialty. We scout for optimal vantage points across Sydney construction sites and handle all liaising with building managers and local councils to install our non-destructive site monitoring systems.
We often attach our cameras to street poles as they offer great vantage points for long-term construction time-lapse. We handle all the permissions with power companies and local councils.
We also like to get our construction time-lapse cameras close to the action, often mounting them on site cranes and scaffolding to capture dynamic project progress videos.
We always shoot in High Dynamic Range (HDR), taking three exposures per frame. This method extends the visual detail in shadows and highlights that would otherwise be lost in standard exposures, as well as smoothing out exposure changes throughout the day.
Explore our showcase of diverse time-lapse projects to see how we seamlessly condense months of civil infrastructure and commercial high-rise construction into high-definition visual stories. We build and install our own robust, site-resistant time-lapse camera systems. From the initial groundbreaking to the final handover, our cameras deliver high-quality footage for updates, marketing, project libraries, and large photographic enlargements.
Graeme Beck is a highly regarded master of time-lapse photography, delivering elite project visualisation for Tier-1 joint ventures, Tier-3 contractors, and major civil infrastructure works. We are certified for Working at Heights, Rail Corridor access (RIW), and commercial drone operations to safely capture your developments. Our technical production expertise bridges the gap between critically acclaimed artistic cinematography and heavy-duty industrial filming.
Our long-term construction time-lapse camera setups have documented many commercial high-rise building projects across Sydney.
We provide project delivery teams stunning 45MP stills and 4k progress videos for site monitoring, marketing, cinematic completion videos, and stunning large-scale poster prints.
Shooting time-lapse photography comes with its own unique challenges. Explore this page to discover how our decades of field experience provide solutions.
We perform regular monthly physical checks where lenses are cleaned and systems checked for potential problems. We also liaise with the site managers for better camera positions because we like to get our cameras in close to the action for more dynamic and interesting vision. All cameras are monitored via a cellular audio link every 2 to 3 days on the average slow build construction site, or at shorter intervals, relative to the complexity of the action. Where our cameras are connected to the web, they are monitored daily with the vision being uploaded in real time to our own computers.
To correct minor movement, we stabilise the vision in Adobe After Effects. Further movement requires using a corner pin filter and aligning the vision into shape to match the shots together. Large movement requires the camera to be re-positioned.
As these platforms offer a superior viewpoint they are often utilised. For regular monthly updates we run the vision through After Effects stabilising program. Superior results can be pre-edited to remove the frames with the largest movement.
Yes. We can provide a live feed to your mobile at a small additional cost. We can also upload the shots as they are taken to our computers or to our client's computer if desired.
