Notlith · Nelson
Event video in Nelson: for the people who enter, not only those who watch
Some Nelson events are watched; others are entered. Mountain bike rides in the hills above the city, trail runs up the Maitai Valley and swims off Tāhunanui Beach all depend on people choosing to sign up, train and turn up at the start. The film that sells them has to answer an entrant's questions. Notlith builds it remotely from your course maps, earlier photographs and race information.
Remote production · From your photos
The course is the product
Someone deciding whether to enter wants to know the distance, the climbing, the surface and where the aid stations are. A film can show that clearly: a route drawn from your GPX file over a map, the elevation profile building as the route climbs, and a few photographs from previous years at the points that matter.
We do not generate terrain. The hills above the city, the Dun Mountain Trail along its old railway line or the beach at Tāhunanui appear only through your photographs or licensed images, captioned with the year. A generated hillside could make a technical descent look easier or harder than it is, and riders would notice.
Categories, cut-offs and the first-timer
Most participation events carry several entries at once: a long course and a short one, junior and masters categories, a team option. The film should separate them so nobody signs up for the wrong distance. We build a short chapter for each, using the start times, cut-offs and age rules from your entry page.
A first-time entrant needs reassurance more than adrenaline. Showing where to park, where to collect a race pack and what happens at the finish can do more for entries than a fast montage. We use your own photographs of registration and transition areas, and leave out anything the course or venue cannot guarantee this year.
Water, weather and the fire season
Open-water swims depend on conditions in Tasman Bay, and hill events can be shortened or rerouted after heavy rain, or in a dry summer when forest access is restricted. The film should say how changes are announced rather than promise a perfect day. A closing card can point to your updates page or social channel.
We keep weather out of the sell. No generated sunset over the Boulder Bank, no glassy sea that may not appear on race morning. If you want atmosphere, we take it from your own archive of past starts, with the conditions shown as they were and the date beside them.
Volunteers, sponsors and the week after
The same material can serve two other audiences. A short briefing for marshals and volunteers shows where they stand, what they carry and who to call. Sponsors may need a version with their marks placed according to their own guidelines and approved by them. Each version comes from the same project, so corrections carry across.
After the event, a recap should come from real photographs and footage of that day, taken by your photographer or a local crew. We edit and finish it, add results graphics from your timing data and prepare the clip that opens entries for next year. We never add riders, swimmers or spectators who were not there.
Fictional concept created with AI
In pictures
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Plan the details
Can you make the film before the course is final?
Yes, with the course marked as provisional. Once the route is confirmed, we update the map sequence and distances, and the rest of the film stays as approved.
Can you show riders on the trails?
Only from photographs or footage you hold the rights to, with consent from the people shown where needed. We do not generate participants or crowds.
Do you film on the day?
No, we have no crew in Nelson. A local photographer or videographer can capture the day, and we take care of the edit and finishing afterwards.
What should we send first?
Your course maps or GPX files, the entry information, past photographs and the date entries open. We reply with a proposed structure and a quote.
Start with your images
Send your course maps, entry categories and a folder of past photographs, and tell us when entries open.