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Content Production · Season 2026 / 27

100 hours on location. Footage for a year.

In four days, at one destination, we produce raw vertical footage and stills. Sorted into a Media Hub, full usage rights handed over. For brands, tourism boards, and hotel groups.

Format
100 hours
Crew
Three people
Rights
Royalty-free
Delivery
Two weeks

How it works.

From the briefing to material handover. Three phases, one clear endpoint: your Media Hub.

01 — Briefing

Define the target material.

A thirty-minute call. Which brand, which destination, which stations, which raw material you need. Followed by a treatment with a shooting plan.

02 — Production

100 hours, on location.

Three people, six stations, four days. No standby. Full equipment for vertical footage and stills photography. Daily review on set.

03 — Media Hub

Raw material, sorted.

Two weeks after the shoot. Vertical B-roll and stills, uncut and ungraded, in a delivered folder structure. Full usage rights, no expiry.

The journey. Japan pilot, in summer.

Six stations, three islands, one hundred hours. This is what the format looks like when it runs.

Tokyo, Robot Show
00 Hour
Station 01

Tokyo

Arrival. Shibuya at night. Robot Show in the basement. Opening of the four days. Vertical footage of the crew arriving, detail shots from the show setup.

Mount Fuji
20 Hour
Station 02

Mount Fuji

Sunrise at the sacred mountain. Three hours of stillness. Vertical drone work, stills in soft light, highly brand-friendly.

Kyoto, bamboo forest
40 Hour
Station 03

Kyoto

Bamboo forest in Arashiyama. Slow motion 120 fps in vertical. This is the raw material your agency builds the hero cut from.

Fukuoka
60 Hour
Station 04

Fukuoka

G-Class, karaoke basement, night city. Vertical behind-the-scenes material that delivers BTS content for a whole quarter.

Takachiho
80 Hour
Station 05

Takachiho

Gorge of the gods. Boat pass and drone. Quiet vertical footage that works without a cut.

Crew on the moss-covered forest path, Yakushima
100 Hour
Station 06

Yakushima

Thousand-year cedars and moss-covered stones. Closing material, dense and quiet. Six stations, one folder full of raw vertical and stills.

What's in the package.

Raw material plus a Media Hub. Editing and grading stay with you or your agency.

Stills from the pilot.

A selection from the Japan summer production. Real footage, no stock photos.

Variation · hospitality.

What the format looks like for a hotel client. Suite interiors, restaurant, spa, resort grounds — all raw vertical and stills, ready for your editing pipeline.

Hotel suite with botanical art Suite · botanical Resort bungalow with infinity pool Resort · pool view Sushi counter, chef plating Restaurant · sushi Outdoor spa cabana over the forest Spa · outdoor

Variation · airlines & lounges.

For carriers, lounges and stopover programmes. Tarmac, cabin reality, lounge architecture, live cooking, service detail — material that fits an airline's social, onboard and brand storytelling.

Turkish Airlines tails seen through a cabin window Tails · through window Passenger with laptop in business class Business · in-flight Lounge architecture with sweeping wave ceiling Lounge · architecture Chefs at a live cooking station Live cooking

The crew.

Three people, no influencer. Classic film craft, accelerated to one hundred hours.

Tariq Khan

Media Hub & Marketing

Builds the back end with modern tools. Designs the Media Hub structure and the delivery pipeline, so your team finds, uses, and re-cuts every clip without friction. Also handles on-location production with the crew.

Sascha Gottschalk

Travel Director & Producer

The producer in the room with the client. Owns the route, the schedule, the on-set logistics, and your brand's experience of the shoot. The reason a 96-hour production stays calm and on plan under pressure.

Marc Bächtold

Content & Branding

Content specialist with his own agency and years of international freelance work. Fully equipped, with a sharp eye for brand fit, he owns the creative grammar that turns raw material into a campaign your team is proud to post.

Background Epic Places is a production from the FMD Productions environment. The three of us have worked together on most of it: Falcon Lens Award (Abu Dhabi, with Etihad and Mercedes-Benz), Iron Summit (Paramount+ / Amazon Prime), Mission Bayern, Sunspot Award. These projects don't belong to Epic Places, but they're the handwriting of the same team.
Selected partners
  • Japan National Tourism Organization
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Mini
  • Turkish Airlines
Awards
  • German Brand Award, GoldBrand Communication, Mission Bayern 2026
  • ADAC TourismuspreisMecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sunspot Award 2021
  • Leuchttürme der TourismuswirtschaftMarketing Award, Sunspot Award 2021

Season 2026/27

From wrap to handover Two weeks. Vertical B-roll, stills, Media Hub, full rights.

First step: a 30-minute concept call. Pilot range on request.

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