We schedule Miami shoots by jurisdiction, airspace and season first, so the film permit, the drone authorization and the light are all ready on the same morning.
Miami-Dade has dozens of municipalities, each with its own film office, and the whole metro sits under airport airspace. Our in-house crew flies in from Chicago with owned RED, ARRI and DJI Inspire 3 kit and handles that paperwork before call time. Rates are on our pricing page; scope lives under cinema-grade production.
Built from the National Weather Service wet season (15 May to 15 October) and the Atlantic hurricane season (1 June to 30 November), as of October 2026. A planning aid, not a forecast.
Dry season. Drier skies make this the safest stretch for twilight exteriors and long aerial passes.
NWS calls this the stormiest part of the wet season. Afternoon cells build fast, so exteriors happen early.
The hottest weeks, with intermittent dry spells. Interiors and amenity spaces fill the afternoon schedule.
Tropical systems peak around 10 September. We hold a weather day in every contract and track the National Hurricane Center outlook.
Brickell is City of Miami, Collins Avenue may be Miami Beach, Sunny Isles is its own city. The address decides the film office, the notice period and the insurance form.
Miami-Dade exempts tiny shoots: under three people, hand-held or one tripod, no exclusive use. A real estate film with gimbal, lights and talent is never that small, so we file.
Miami Beach asks for 5 business days in commercial districts and 10 in residential areas, plus a $1 million liability certificate naming the city. We start there because it is the slowest lead time.
Miami International creates Class B airspace over much of the metro. We request FAA authorization through LAANC and confirm what ceiling each grid allows before promising a client an aerial angle.
From May through October, morning light is clean and storms build later. We block exteriors and drone work early, then move inside.
Before construction, renders and walkthroughs come from your plans and are labeled as visualizations. Once the structure rises, our crew films the real thing.
I treat the forecast as the first collaborator on any coastal shoot. A tower facade looks completely different under a clean morning sky than in the haze before an afternoon storm.
That is why I push developers toward dry season dates for hero exteriors and twilight frames. Interiors can wait for summer.
The permit work is less glamorous, but it is the part that keeps a full crew from standing on a sidewalk with no paperwork.
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It depends on the city. Miami-Dade's film office lists eight municipalities that also require permits on private or residential property, including the City of Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables and Key Biscayne. We check the address and file where needed.
Often, but not everywhere. Miami International's Class B airspace covers much of the area, and each LAANC grid near the airport carries its own altitude ceiling, some too low for the shot. We request LAANC authorization in advance and plan alternate angles where the ceiling is too low.
Its film guidelines ask for a Film and Print permit, FAA Part 107 compliance, daylight flight only, visual line of sight, no flight over the public, and at least one off-duty police officer on site. We price that into the shoot day.
Not entirely. June to November is long, and many days are fine. We book a backup date, keep exteriors flexible around late August to October, and save twilight hero frames for the dry months when possible.
Films run $15,000 to $50,000 depending on days, locations, aerials and post-production. Travel for our Chicago-based crew is quoted upfront. Permit fees, police details and location costs are passed through at cost.
We will confirm the film office, the airspace and the weather window within a day, then quote a crew plan.
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