Garrett Barnes

I'm an FAA-certified commercial drone pilot and filmmaker. I started flying in 2016, when hardly anyone around here did it for a living, and opened Elevated Productions in 2017 at Kings River Marina on Table Rock Lake, shooting for the marinas and boat dealers on the lake.

Commercial projects, real estate and boat sales are most of my work now, with power line inspections, construction films and landscape photography alongside. I shoot 4K in the air and on the ground and edit everything myself.

You deal with one person. I plan the shoot with you, fly it, film it and edit it, and I build the finished piece for the way you'll use it. No AI, and no marketing company in between.

Once a year I talk to the sixth grade at Shell Knob about photography, video and running a business.

Ten years

2016: first flights and first clients around Shell Knob
2017: Elevated Productions, LLC. FAA Part 107 certificate. Ribbon cutting with the Cassville chamber. First cinema camera.
2018 to 2019: Table Rock Boats, the MasterCraft owners' reunion, first real estate packages, dock projects from Chicago to Arkansas
2020: full time
2023: construction films, "30 days of fall"
2026: ten seasons, a new drone, golf flyovers, Springfield and the lake

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Reviews

All reviews, on Facebook

Sarah Hill, Table Rock Boats
"We have been using them to produce walk-through videos, film events and more. We couldn't be more satisfied."

Sharon Mellinger Sanders, Oak Hill Court & RV Park
"Garrett listened to what we were hoping to accomplish and also gave ideas and suggestions. Turnaround from start to finish was very quick."

Andy Miller, Williams Bros. Ski & Sports
"Professional, high-caliber filming and editing. Garrett will make anything look awesome and deliver the content quickly and easily."

Courtney Hammen
"Attention to detail is unmatched."

Kathryn Faye Parsons
"A true gift for story telling."

Kevin Hatfield
"The ultimate professional."

Bluff overlook, fall color, pink sunset2023