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Wikipedia's entry for Game4Ukraine – the 2023 charity match at Stamford Bridge captained by Andriy Shevchenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko, with an address from President Zelenskyy and a broadcast on Sky – credits one production company by name for covering it: We Stream. That's not a claim we're making about ourselves. It's a citation.
We're a London-based video and photo team working across football and sports: Premier League athletes, corporate sports leagues, charity matches, brand campaigns built around footballers. The four case studies below are what that actually looks like on the ground.
We Stream is run by Violetta Coretnic and Vitalii Vakulchuk, who've been on-site – behind the camera or producing – for most of the shoots on this page. Vitalii was DoP on both Fury Energy × Chelsea FC trips; Violetta has produced Dominic Solanke video and has been in the industry since 2016.
Case study – Blue Lock x Kodansha
Four confirmed hours, cut to ninety – on a pitch nobody had seen yet.
Four confirmed hours with Tottenham striker Dominic Solanke became roughly ninety minutes at a Premier League training ground, confirmed forty-eight hours before the shoot. Full crew accreditation went from request to approval in under two hours. Footage was on a Google Drive link the next morning, and the campaign – a Blue Lock manga tie-in commissioned by Kodansha through LA agency Story Arc – passed 170,000 views within two weeks of launch.
The full account of that shoot – the venue change with two days' notice, the lighting plan built for a pitch nobody had seen yet, the colour grade delivered across eight time zones in under 48 hours against a five-day contract – is its own page: Athlete video production in London: filming Dominic Solanke for Blue Lock.
Case study – Corporate Sports League
A one-month pilot, filmed like it already had four sponsors.
CSL's organiser wanted to test something before pitching it more widely: a corporate basketball league, real companies fielding real teams, filmed properly enough to prove the concept was worth paying for. The pilot ran across four tournament days, one company per day – Amazon, Google, BCG, and J.P. Morgan.
Each day meant a portable white-background portrait setup for team photos, full match coverage across three cameras, and a highlight reel of the best moments – turned around within three days of the final whistle. Raw match footage went to the client fast enough that stats could be calculated the same evening, before any edit was even finished. For the finals, a dedicated photographer covered the match and the award ceremony separately from the video crew. That one-month pilot has since become four separate bookings.
Case study – Game4Ukraine
Sending finished photos before the final whistle.
Wikipedia's own account of the match footnotes We Stream as the team that "provided video and photo documentation of the entire match." Andriy Shevchenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko captained the day, with Mykhailo Mudryk, Thiago Silva, Jorginho, and Jamie Vardy among the players on the pitch, Sky Max and Sky Showcase broadcasting live, and President Zelenskyy addressing the stadium before kickoff. Both video and football photography were part of the brief – high-energy gameplay through to the quiet moments in between.
What made the turnaround work wasn't a single handoff at the end. As soon as the opening performances and Zelenskyy's address gave way to players walking onto the pitch, the first batch of raw video and photos was already with the client's editing team. Once the lineup formed and the match started, more raw material went across after the opening minutes of play. From there, the photographer was editing and sending finished images live while the match was still running, and the videographer kept uploading footage to the drive in real time rather than waiting for a break. By the time the cup was presented and the last photos of the footballers were taken, the client's team already had everything from earlier in the day – the only thing still coming in was the closing material.
The original brief was raw footage only. A complimentary edited video, delivered on the 9th of August, wasn't part of that brief – the client liked it enough to post it on their own socials anyway. Total delivery: over 300 edited photos, more than 150GB of usable raw footage, and that unplanned video on top.
Case study – Fury Energy x Chelsea FC
Ten videos, one videographer, one day of access.
Training ground access and a full stadium tour, filmed across two separate projects for Fury Energy's Chelsea FC campaign. Players filmed included Victor Moses, Robert Sánchez, Andrey Santos, Malo Gusto, and Essam El Hadary, alongside brand ambassador Mido. The first project alone ran to ten videos: training-experience films, a stadium tour, ambassador content, and influencer pieces, with only one person allowed on the ground, so video stayed the clear priority over stills. First deliverables were out inside a week of wrap.
Access was the real constraint on that first shoot: only one videographer was allowed inside the stadium, so the whole day got built around what a single camera could realistically hold. Mid-shoot, one of the talent went missing after a training session and part of the planned footage was lost with him. Rather than bill the client to fix it, the cost of reshooting around the gap was absorbed.
The relationship held up well enough that a second project followed a few weeks later: a live fan event at Stamford Bridge, needing same-day and next-day turnaround for PR rather than the week the first shoot had. Budget meant the crew was tight, one videographer, one photographer, and the day still delivered a full event recap film, an ambassador reel, and behind-the-scenes and interview content, alongside two more photo galleries totalling 430+ photos. Across both projects, 14 videos went out in total, with the bulk of the photography coming from that second shoot. Ten of those, the full run from the first project, are shown below. The second project's four aren't cleared for release yet.
Football photography
Video gets most of the attention above, but a good part of that work was shot by dedicated photographers, not captured as a byproduct of the camera crew being there. Andras Stefuca, one of our main photographers, covered the Game4Ukraine match ordered by United24 and Mykhailo Mudryk's private training session. The Fury Energy × Chelsea FC photography ran across the wider team, including Vitalii Vakulchuk and Nazar Smirnov.
That spread, a nationally broadcast charity match, a closed training session nobody else had access to, and a brand campaign on a tight PR clock, is close to the actual range football photography needs to cover: posed and candid, public and private, sometimes with no deadline at all and sometimes with one measured in hours.
See every photo from these shoots in the full gallery.
See the full gallery →Videography
Also on record.
Oleksandr Usyk – Trafalgar Square, the Boryviter mural unveiling with Richard Branson, covered on the event photography page.
Paul Pogba – for French outlet Brut, a full interview shot in Manchester, its own page: Interview with Paul Pogba.
Andriy Shevchenko, as part of a documentary feature, and Thiago Silva, Jorginho, and Jamie Vardy, filmed for a Parimatch behind-the-scenes campaign across Chelsea FC and Leicester City studio sets and stadiums.
Mykhailo Mudryk – private training footage, filmed but never edited. Worth mentioning honestly rather than not at all: the filming happened, but there's no finished piece to show for it.
Pricing
Set rates for the day,scoped when it's a season.
Standard turnaround is 7 working days. Same-day delivery runs £400 to £1,500+, and a rush cut inside 48 hours is +£400.
One operator for the match plus a highlight film. Raw footage is included on match work.
from £1,700Two operators covering the match and post-match interviews, edited together.
from £3,500Two people covering both, with a same-day gallery for press and social.
from £4,600Ten matches across a season booked together, 10% below the single-match rate.
from £15,000£1,200 for a half day of up to 4 hours, £2,000 for a full day of up to 10 hours. Editing is priced separately, from £500 for a highlight film.
from £1,200£1,100 a day for a roaming camera and B-roll, or £1,400 for a full second camera with its own kit. The setup used across CSL's three-camera match days.
from £1,100/dayPortable studio, lighting and background included; the setup used for CSL's per-team portraits.
£2,000CSL's four-day pilot is the model, scoped around the number of days, teams and deliverables per day rather than a flat rate. Send us the shape of your event and we will quote against it.
Custom quoteFilming and editing are priced separately, so you are quoted on what you are commissioning: a highlight film is £500, match clips and vertical cutdowns £150 each. Travel outside London is calculated by us and included in your quote, so there is nothing to add later.
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Questions
Frequently asked
How much does a football videographer cost in London?
A single match filmed and edited starts at £1,700 for one operator plus a highlight film, with raw footage included. A match with post-match interviews and two operators is from £3,500, and a match covered for both photo and video by two people, with a same-day gallery, is from £4,600. Ten matches booked as a season retainer start at £15,000. Filming only is £1,200 for a half day and £2,000 for a full day, with editing priced separately.
Has We Stream filmed professional footballers?
Yes. The Wikipedia article on Game4Ukraine, the charity match at Stamford Bridge captained by Andriy Shevchenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko, records that the event was covered by We Stream, who provided video and photo documentation of the entire match. Our photograph of Zinchenko illustrates that article, credited to András Stefuca of the We Stream team. We also filmed Dominic Solanke for a Kodansha Blue Lock campaign at a Premier League training ground, and Fury Energy's Chelsea FC campaign featuring Victor Moses, Robert Sánchez, Andrey Santos, Malo Gusto and Essam El-Hadary.
Do you cover corporate sports leagues, not just professional football?
Yes. CSL, a corporate basketball league, booked a one-month pilot covering four company teams, Amazon, Google, BCG and J.P. Morgan, across four tournament days, with three-camera match coverage, team portraits and same-week highlight reels. That pilot has since become four repeat bookings.
How fast can football or sports match footage be delivered?
Standard turnaround is 7 working days. A rush cut inside 48 hours is +£400 and same-day delivery runs £400 to £1,500+ depending on footage volume and camera count. On the Dominic Solanke shoot, full footage was delivered the morning after filming; on CSL match days, raw footage went to the client the same evening so stats could be calculated immediately.
Can you get crew accredited at a Premier League training ground on short notice?
Yes. For the Dominic Solanke shoot, a request for crew list, equipment manifest and public liability insurance arrived at 16:40 and was fully submitted by 18:00, under two hours. Sending documentation before a venue formally asks for it is standard practice for us.
Do you film both video and photography at sports events?
Yes, with one crew rather than two separate suppliers. A match covered for both is from £4,600 for two people with a same-day gallery. CSL's match days combined three-camera video with white-background team portraits, and the Game4Ukraine coverage included both match video and photography.
What sports has We Stream covered beyond football?
Basketball, through the CSL corporate league, plus multi-sport charity events like Game4Ukraine, which put footballers, boxers and musicians on the same pitch. Football is the primary focus, but match-day production carries across sports.