Thaisky‑Digital
Continuous recording of factory and warehouse construction — from earthworks through machinery installation to commissioning — with cameras mounted on site and reconfigured from our office for the life of the project.
We do not shoot video. We record individual high-resolution stills, so any single day can be pulled up and downloaded later, and the same material can be re-cut to any length without going back to site.
Earthworks to commissioning
The whole project without a gap, rather than visits timed around milestones.
Stills, not video
Every day is its own file — download any date, and re-cut to any length.
Adjusted from the office
Interval and exposure change through the project without going back to the rig.
The same camera in the same configuration does not serve a factory the way it serves a tower. The rhythm and the constraints are different. These four are what we plan around before anything is installed.
A steel frame goes up fast — some sites are framed and roofed within weeks. Then machinery and services take months during which the outside barely changes. Left at one fixed interval, the film races through the first phase and stalls through the second. We change the interval as the work changes.
A tower can be covered from one position. A factory spreads sideways for hundreds of metres, which makes the mounting point the decision that matters most. Some sites need an unusually wide lens; some need more than one camera to hold the whole footprint. That is settled on the survey, not on installation day.
Industrial sites carry far more dust than a city building site, and welding throws violent flashes at irregular intervals. A camera left to meter for itself gets confused and the sequence flickers. Our rigs are built to sit outdoors for the length of a project, and exposure stays under our control rather than the camera's.
In many plants the most valuable work happens after the roof is on — laying out the production line and setting the machinery. That is indoor work, with inconsistent light and little room. We mount cameras inside as well, set up for factory lighting rather than daylight.
Delivered while the job is running, not held back to the end — for the monthly meeting, for head office, or for an owner watching from another country.
Every frame is archived as its own file. Open the date you need and download the original — which is what makes it useful when there is an argument about sequence, or a need to show when a section was finished.
A thirty-second cut for the opening and a five-minute cut for the shareholders come from the same material, because the original is a set of photographs rather than a finished video file.
Most time-lapse work jumps between bright and dark for the length of the film, because daylight differs day to day and the camera keeps re-metering. Ours runs from days into months into years and stays smooth.
Five months of continuous recording, March to August 2021, from foundations through to structural completion.
A full year, January 2021 to January 2022, condensed into a single film.
Bus body assembly inside the plant — an example of indoor recording where the light is inconsistent and the subject keeps moving.
Both help — they are what let us change settings from the office and move images off site continuously. Where a site has neither yet, there are ways around it. This is one of the things the survey is for.
We watch what comes in daily rather than leaving a camera alone and hoping. If something is wrong we know that day — not at the end of the project, with three months missing. Twenty years of this has been designed around that one risk.
The longest we have run without a break is five years and six months, with the same camera in the same position throughout so the framing matches across the whole job. Most factory work is far shorter — a few months to a year.
We do not publish a price, because it turns on the number of cameras, the length of the project, the file quality you need, and what the site actually looks like. We listen to the requirement, ask to survey the site, and quote against what is really there rather than against a guess.
Tell us where the project is, when it starts and roughly how long it runs. We will arrange to see the site, then propose the number of cameras and the mounting points that suit it.