Restaurant Video Production Queenstown

In Queenstown

Queenstown’s restaurants trade on a visitor market that shifts between the ski season and summer, so content often needs to be shot ahead of each season. Lake and mountain views give a backdrop few cities can match.

Queenstown sits on Lake Wakatipu under the Remarkables, and it is one of New Zealand’s best-known places for weddings, adventure tourism and alpine scenery. International film and commercial shoots use the Central Otago landscapes around it.

Billie travels to Queenstown for productions, bringing the full team or working with local crew depending on the job.

Services in Queenstown

What it’s for

Restaurants and cafes live on how the food, the room and the people look.

Most of the content that matters is short: a dish being plated, the first pour of the morning, the kitchen at full tilt, the room filling up on a Friday night. Menus, websites, booking platforms and delivery apps all need sharp stills, and openings, new menus and seasonal changes each need something new to post. A consistent run of content keeps a place in front of regulars between visits.

What gets made

Menu and dish photography
Short-form Reels and TikToks from the kitchen and the pass
Opening and new menu announcements
Chef and owner profile films
Website and booking platform imagery
Private dining and event promotion

On the shoot

Diners on camera

Guests in the background are filmed only with their agreement or framed out, and a note at the door on shoot days lets everyone know a crew is in.

Shooting around service

Kitchens look their best when they are busiest, so most shoots split into a quiet prep session for dishes and a short, agreed window during service for atmosphere, planned with the head chef so the crew never slows the pass.

Which retainer suits

Essential at $1,500 NZD a month suits a single restaurant or cafe that needs a steady supply of short-form edits and a few finished pieces each month. Creative at $3,000 NZD a month suits a busy venue or a small group with menu changes, events and launches to cover, and Studio Partner, on enquiry, suits a hospitality group that wants weekly sessions. A one-off opening campaign can be quoted as Bespoke Production.

Production Retainers

Visuals with intention. Stories with impact.

Ongoing film production and creative services for brands and businesses. Built around consistent output, considered creative direction and quality visual storytelling.

Essential

For those building their visual identity.

$1,500

NZD a month

1 production session per month
3 edited video pieces
5 short-form edits
Professional editing and colour grading
Monthly content planning

Creative

For those ready to expand their visual presence.

$3,000

NZD a month

2 production sessions per month
6 edited video pieces
8-10 short-form edits
Creative direction and concept development
Professional editing, colour grading and sound design
Monthly production planning

Studio Partner

For those seeking an ongoing creative partnership.

On enquiry

Weekly production sessions
Original film and campaign production
Short-form and long-form content
Creative direction and visual development
Advanced post-production
Priority production scheduling
Ongoing creative consultation

Bespoke Production

For projects beyond our retainer services, Billie offers tailored production for music videos, visual campaigns, branded films and original creative projects.

Questions

Is this a paid service?

Yes. Billie is a paid production company. Production Retainers are $1,500 NZD a month for Essential and $3,000 NZD a month for Creative, and Studio Partner is priced on enquiry. Projects outside a retainer are quoted per project as Bespoke Production, and Billie Private events are quoted per project.

Does Billie work in Queenstown?

Billie travels to Queenstown for productions, bringing the full team or working with local crew depending on the job.

Do we need to cook every dish for the shoot?

Each dish being photographed or filmed needs to be plated for the camera, so the kitchen plans a short list in advance. Billie works from that list so food is not wasted.

Work with Billie

Every vision begins somewhere.

Tell Billie about the project, the timeline and which retainer suits, or ask for a Bespoke Production quote.

Restaurant Video Production in Queenstown