Kelly and Woods

General information

It started with a passion for travel, creating visuals and making a positive, exciting impact on the world. That hasn’t changed. But a lot of dedicated hard work and some incredible collaborations with inspiring people has expanded that passion into a niche/boutique/bespoke/specialised production company taking on some amazing projects. We are Kelly & Woods, and we create videos which allow the world’s natural and cultural stories to be told. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we have travelled to over 40 countries collectively. Our love for travel and creative production has brought us to many fields of videography, including tourism and high end hospitality video marketing, online education, student travel and cultural exchange promotions, and teach abroad videos.

People have used storytelling to pass on information and convey human potential throughout recorded history, and videography is our present-day virtual mode of storytelling. Your travel experience, your brand, the places you love most or the moments that get your heart thumping - these are the stories that can be shared through video. With the right combination of music, visuals and narrative, a video can really make you feel something, and that’s what we aspire to.

Our company has grown out of a partnership into a dynamic collaborative enterprise. Working with every new client is an opportunity to grow our team and to share knowledge and skills effectively to create the best possible product. What we can offer to that final product is a huge amount of excitement and enthusiasm, coupled with a thorough understanding of how to utilise a business’s competitive advantage and the technical and capability to create videos that stand out. Working mostly within the industry of travel and documentary film, we specialise in using a run-and-gun style of production to create a quality final product with a quick turn around time.

We offer a complete in-house video production process, from pre-production and brainstorming with regards to the business’s goals and needs, to working out production plans, putting together crews and organising shoot days, managing the data, editing and working with client feedback and finally, to producing high quality videos according to client stipulations and encouraging their successful distribution. We also recognise when it might be better to team up with niche professionals at any stage of the process, to ensure that the final product is of the highest possible standard.

When it comes to creating content, we’re really not afraid to try new things. From filming a honey badger kill to jumping off a cliff, we’re open to the experience and up for the challenge. We’ve worked with a range of brands such as South African National Parks, Cape Nature and the One and Only le Saint Géran. Most recently, Kelly & Woods has been involved in a 7 month journey around South Africa, during which we took on the production management and filming of a South African community-driven project in collaboration with one of the world’s largest brands in technology and innovation. It’s been an opportunity for major growth and we’re excited to launch the final products in the near future. Watch this space...