Cardiff United Kingdom
Commercial video production for Cardiff
Cardiff is a capital where the castle walls and the waterfront of Cardiff Bay sit within walking distance of each other, and where daily life runs in two languages. Businesses here advertise to neighbours, to visitors who arrive for a match or a show, and to customers across Wales and the rest of the UK. Notlith makes hybrid films for them remotely, starting from your photographs and brand files, with creative direction, AI-assisted imagery, editing, colour and sound.
Remote production · From your photos
From coal port to capital
Cardiff grew in the nineteenth century as a port shipping coal from the South Wales valleys, and Butetown still carries traces of that trade, from the Coal Exchange in Mount Stuart Square to the red-brick Pierhead Building by the water. The city was declared the capital of Wales in 1955, and the Senedd now meets in the former docklands of Cardiff Bay.
That history explains the shape of the place today: a compact centre around the castle, Queen Street and St Mary Street, the Bay to the south with its cultural venues and apartments, and neighbourhoods such as Roath, Canton, Pontcanna and Llandaff, each with its own high street. A film for a business here starts by asking which of those Cardiffs it belongs to.
Catalog demonstration
In pictures
Two languages, one brief
Welsh and English share road signs, menus and packaging across the city, and plenty of Cardiff customers expect to see both. For public bodies, bilingual communication is governed by Welsh language standards; for many private businesses it is a choice that signals care. We raise it at the start, because a bilingual film has to be planned rather than translated once the edit is finished.
Titles are set from approved copy in each language, voice-overs are recorded by fluent speakers and checked by someone you trust, and accented letters are never left to a generator. The result can be a single bilingual master or separate Welsh and English versions, depending on where the film will be seen.
What we make, and how
The pages linked below cover the briefs we expect from Cardiff: product films for makers and food producers, ads for social feeds, films for restaurants, bars, hotels, shops and venues, property videos, event promotion, company films and services promotion. Every project opens the same way, with your objective, your audience and the photographs you already hold.
From that material we write a proposal, then generate and animate shots that stay faithful to your real products and spaces, before editing, grading and adding sound. Two review rounds keep the work moving, and delivery covers the formats you need, from a widescreen master to vertical cutdowns for phones.
No crew, no Cardiff office
Notlith has no office in Cardiff and does not send a camera team. When a brief depends on real people, a live event or a documentary record, a local crew will serve you better, and we say so before quoting. We never generate stadium crowds, landmarks you do not own or customers who do not exist; every generated shot is listed for you and can be labelled.
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
Product films
Selling products? We make product films too.
From your photos, we stage a bottle, a drink, a chair or a jacket in a hybrid film ready for your social channels, website and campaigns.
Preparing your film
Do you work with businesses outside the city centre?
Yes. The method is the same for a shop in Whitchurch, a guesthouse in Pontcanna or a producer in the Vale of Glamorgan, as long as you can supply good photographs.
Can we have a film in Welsh?
Yes. Welsh and bilingual versions are planned in the quote, with fluent reviewers checking every line of text and voice before delivery.
Can the film show Cardiff Bay or the castle?
Only from rights-cleared images you supply, used as context for the city. A landmark never implies that your premises sit beside it or look onto it.
Sources for the local context
On quote
Start with your images
Share the subject, references and intended release. Your quote sets out the scope, versions and applicable terms.