Multi-Day Video & Photo Coastal Tourism Campaign | Corpus Christie, TX

K2 Productions collaborated with MMGY and Visit Corpus Christi, Texas, on a multi-day destination marketing shoot—video and photography running in parallel, drone footage over the coastline, and a cast of local families and couples standing in for the visitors the campaign is built to reach. It’s the latest project in an ongoing collaboration between K2 and MMGY, one of the country’s largest travel and tourism marketing agencies.

The Project

MMGY needed content that could carry a destination campaign across multiple formats — website-ready video, a full photography library, and aerial footage. The subject was Corpus Christi itself, including its beaches, its bayfront restaurant scene, and the USS Lexington sitting in the harbor like a landmark. The brief called for the project to include real families on the beach, real couples at dinner, not stock-photo versions of either.

Pre-Production

Pre-production happens well before the crew arrives for the shoot. K2 partnered with local agencies to help cast families and couples who’d actually spend a weekend in Corpus Christi. Wardrobe was pulled to match the season and the setting. Location scouting locked down the beaches, restaurant patios, and the USS Lexington, along with any permitting needed to ensure smooth filming days.

Production

Production ran for four days, with a video DP and photographer working side by side, under Kevin Ellers’ direction along with MMGY representatives. A prop stylist and a wardrobe stylist supported the shoot, maintaining continuity across both. Our FAA Part 107-certified drone pilot captured drone footage of the coastline and harbor from angles a ground crew can’t reach, giving MMGY dynamic footage to use in post-production.

What the four days covered:

• Beach lifestyle video and photography with local families and couples
• Restaurant and bayfront dining content across multiple locations
• USS Lexington harbor footage, ground and aerial
• Drone coastline footage for broadcast and digital use
• A full still photography library alongside the video deliverables

Every asset went to MMGY for post-production, where their team builds out the final campaign, including video and photo, for its digital and broadcast placements.

Why MMGY Keeps Calling K2

This isn’t K2’s first project with MMGY, and that’s the part worth noticing. Destination marketing agencies work with production companies all over the country — they don’t need to call the same one back unless the work keeps holding up. What K2 brings to a shoot like this is the same thing it brings to a manufacturing brand film or a conference AV setup: a director who treats non-actors like real people on camera, a crew that plans hard enough in advance that the shoot day feels calm, and a post-production handoff that’s clean.

Work With K2 Productions on Your Next Destination Campaign

K2 Productions partners with travel and tourism marketing agencies and destination organizations on multi-day campaign shoots — video, photography, and aerial, delivered as a single production package. See more of this work on the Travel & Hospitality industry page, or learn more about K2’s video production services.