Montana
Construction video and time-lapse in Montana
A build takes a year and nobody watches a year. A time-lapse turns it into ninety seconds, which is the only form in which an owner, a prospective client, or a recruit ever sees the whole thing.
We shoot jobsite time-lapse, project films, and company events for Montana contractors. That includes the parts that are harder than they sound: a camera that survives a Montana winter on site, and footage that clears whatever the project owner will and will not allow published.
Dick Anderson Construction's federal aviation facility build for the National Guard and Haselden's Montana leadership gathering in Bozeman are both below.
The work behind this page
Questions we get
- How long can you run a time-lapse?
- As long as the build. The practical constraints are power, mounting, and weather, all of which get settled before the first frame rather than discovered halfway through.
- What if the project owner restricts what can be published?
- That is normal on public work and it gets handled up front. On the Dick Anderson build the State of Montana owned the project, so what could be shown publicly was agreed before anything shipped.
- Is this useful for anything besides marketing?
- Recruiting, mostly. A contractor competing for crews is competing on what the work looks like, and a build film does that better than a job posting.
Let's make something worth watching.
Tell us what you're trying to make. We'll come back with how we'd do it — same day, no pitch deck.
Bozeman · Big Sky · Austin