ACADEMIC
lasting institutional + student life content
We’ll handle all aspects of site coverage for you.
Pre-Production
Clients come in all sizes, needs, and timelines. Planning, creative or logistical, helps achieve your goals on game day.
What we do:
Locations + Scouting
Concepting + Storyboarding
Script + Copywriting
Talent + Voiceover Casting
Hair + Makeup Stylists
Locations + Scouting
Set Design + Staging
Production
Our crew comes ready to roll and can manage all aspects of production while clients sit back and review.
What we do:
Drone Photography + Videos
Helicopter Photography + Videos
Campus Tours + 360 VR Tours
Producing + Directing
Interviewing
Live Streaming + Hybrid Events
Post Production
With our in-house team of photo, video, and VFX editors we’ll get things dialed in for your next brand campaign launch.
What we do:
Photo Editing
Video Editing
Social Media Content
VFX + Animation
Song Licensing
Stock Footage Licensing
Deliverables
We deliver your marketing content when and where you need them.
What we deliver:
Aerial Photography + Videography
Campus Photography + Videography
Social Cut Videos
Lifestyle Videos
Institutional Narrative Videos
360 VR + Virtual Tours
Graphics + Animation
featured
MIT | Sloan School
drone + helicopter campus coverage
MIT | Sloan School
drone + helicopter campus footage
Over the past decade, we’ve worked with a range of academic institutions to deliver archival drone photography and videography.
In urban settings as with MIT, Boston University and Suffolk, we often have to fly higher than drones are permitted. For that, we jump on a helicopter to deliver the goods.
For MIT, we obtained FAA authorizations to fly the Kendall & Charles airspace grids which are typically a no-fly zone due to helicopter medflight routes.
We understand the needs of institutions and students.
Above Summit is a team of experienced and passionate visual storytellers. We’re a one-stop-shop for creative content.
Our studio’s work reflects an innate sense for placemaking, campus programming and growth. With narrative, we give voice to the visuals we create.
Let’s make content we’ll love.
Our team can provide turnkey creative direction and production services for institutions of all sizes, partnering with academic institutions and non-profit organizations that think boldly.
Insurance
$5m+
drone + prod
Drone Ops
Part 107
FAA licensed
Clients
30+
schools
Experience
10+ years
in business
CAMPUS TOURS
drone + ground coverage of campus life
American Campus | Lightview
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With a group of young talent, we activated various shared amenities in this gorgeous student residence at Northeastern University.
Given the big sell is the views, our drone operator brought out the skyline money shot.
Cambridge School of Weston
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During the pandemic, institutions retooled their campus tours and marketing content for prospective students and parents to remotely experience the campus and culture.
Cambridge School of Weston’s team recognized the need and, together, we formed a production schedule that covered their various campus buildings and programs.
A student guides viewers on a virtual walk-thru of the campus and everyday student life.
Boston University | Pandemic
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Having worked together for years on campus helicopter and drone footage, and after seeing our “Lonely Boston” video of empty City streets early in the pandemic, Boston University reached out to capture campus history.
We worked together to catch a once-in-a-lifetime motionless campus and city.
NARRATIVE
stories told by the people behind them
Northeastern | Women’s Rowing
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Crew is a sport deeply entwined into the Boston historic fabric. A fabric that is woven by academia on both sides of the Charles.
Northeastern University Women’s Crew Team defined for us what tough love means to them.
Tufts | Campus Police
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Public safety is paramount for schools and institutions. Nobody knows that responsibility better than the Tufts Police Department.
With this piece, we wanted to convey their core values, transparency and trust with students.
Suffolk University | International
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Suffolk University’s Video team had their hands full heading into the Fall semester so we step in to spotlight an international student.
Our team shadowed a volunteer student over the course of their day for an unscripted feel.