This clifftop home in Mawgan Porth, recently featured in The Times Luxx, is the kind of place that stops you in your tracks the moment you step through the front door.
The reveal
You approach Red Cove along a coastal road, so you know you’re somewhere special. Glimpses of the Atlantic, the headland in the distance. But as you turn into the driveway and start the steep descent, the view disappears. You’re dropping down to the level of the building itself, and suddenly all you can see is the house: charred timber, locally-sourced Trebarwith slate, a surfboard propped by the entrance. Handsome, but giving nothing away.
You park up, walk to the front door, and then it hits you. Your eye is pulled immediately through a corridor toward the back of the house, where the entire rear wall is glass. Floor-to-ceiling, edge-to-edge. And beyond it: the Atlantic, the headland, the beach at Mawgan Porth laid out below. The view you lost on the way down is suddenly there in full, framed perfectly by the architecture. It’s a proper jaw-drop moment, and it became the centrepiece of how we approached the film.
Your eye is pulled immediately through a corridor toward the back of the house, where the entire rear wall is glass. Floor-to-ceiling, edge-to-edge. And beyond it: the Atlantic, the headland, the beach at Mawgan Porth laid out below. It’s a proper jaw-drop moment, and it became the centrepiece of how we approached the film.
Working with Perfect Stays
We’ve been capturing properties for Perfect Stays for several years now. Their portfolio is full of extraordinary homes across Cornwall and Devon, and Red Cove sits comfortably among their most impressive.
The visual content we create sits at the top of each property page on their website, giving potential guests an immediate feel for what’s on offer before they scroll through photos or read the description. We think video does something photography can’t quite match here: it shows you how a space actually feels to move through. The light shifting, the view changing as you walk from room to room. It’s harder to manipulate than a single carefully-lit photo. It feels more honest.
This content also feeds into their social channels, extending the value of each shoot day well beyond the website.
The shoot
Grant and I were both on this one, working together over a full day in summer 2024. Property shoots like this are all about light. Different rooms look their best at different times: morning sun flooding a bedroom, afternoon warmth in the living space, golden hour on the terrace. So we plan around the arc of the day, moving through the house as the light moves.
Most of the interior work is gimbal-based: smooth, unhurried movement through the spaces. No gimmicks, no trendy transitions. When you’re filming a property where guests are paying upwards of £10,000 a week, the content needs to reflect that. Sophisticated, considered, slow like a holiday.
The drone work required a bit more coordination. Red Cove sits close to Newquay Airport, which means working with air traffic control to get clearance. It’s not unusual for us in this part of Cornwall, but it does take planning. The results were worth it: those aerial shots show just how dramatically the property sits on the clifftop, the proximity to the beach, the context that you simply can’t capture from ground level.
Beyond the property film
We’ve since returned to Red Cove to shoot lifestyle content featuring the property in use: people actually living in the space, cooking in that kitchen, watching the sunset from the hot tub. That footage became part of Perfect Stays’ wider brand campaign later in 2024.
It’s a good example of how property visual content can work harder over time. The initial shoot captures the space itself. Return visits build the story, show the experience, give the brand more to work with across their channels.
What makes property video work
Properties like Red Cove sell a feeling as much as a list of features. Five bedrooms, sea views, hot tub: that’s the spec sheet. What actually converts browsers into bookings is the emotional response. Can I imagine myself there? Do I want to wake up in that room?
Our job is to capture that feeling honestly. Not to over-promise, not to hide the bits that aren’t perfect, but to show what makes a place special in a way that resonates. Red Cove made that easy. Some properties do.
If you’re managing luxury holiday lets or working with a property portfolio and thinking about video, we’d be happy to chat about what’s involved. Get in touch or take a look at more of our property work.
Red Cove is available to book through Perfect Stays.
