Reels & short-form video
production in Dubai.
Reels are the fastest way to put a brand in front of people — and the hardest format to fake. Story Bay produces vertical, feed-native video from concept to delivery: one team handles the idea, the shoot, the edit and the final files, so the finished reel looks and sounds like it belongs in your portfolio, not on a template.
Concept to delivery.
- 01
Concept
Every reel starts with the idea: what the video needs to say, who it is for and where it will be seen. We shape the concept, write the script or shot list, and agree the creative direction with you before a single frame is filmed.
- 02
Filming
We shoot on location in Dubai and across the UAE, framed vertical-first for the feed. Clean lighting, real locations and a tight shot plan — so every scene can also be cut later for horizontal and long-form use.
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Editing
Each reel is cut in our edit suite: pacing built for the feed, captions and sound design, colour grading, and platform-ready versions for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
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Delivery
You receive finished files in the formats and lengths each platform needs. Everything is reviewed and downloaded through your private client zone, so nothing gets lost in email threads.
Formats we deliver: Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and vertical cuts of longer brand films. Where a project needs it, the same shoot also feeds photography, longer corporate films and social cut-downs — planned once, used everywhere.
Real examples.
A selection of reels and short films from our latest productions — destination films, brand films and lifestyle work shot in the UAE and abroad. Hover or touch any frame to see it in full colour; tap to play.
Tell us about your
project.
Send us a short brief — what you are launching, where the video will run and when you need it. We reply with a plan and a timeline. No invented numbers here: every project is quoted individually after we understand the scope.
Or return to the studio to see the full portfolio.