Prepared for Qantas · 2026

Seventeen
Hours South

A single-journey campaign proposal by @legefilms

DFW · 32.8998° N, 97.0403° W SYD · 33.9399° S, 151.1753° E
Why this route

One aircraft.
One ocean. One film.

01

Dallas/Fort Worth is one of Qantas's two principal US gateways — and one of only two flown by the A380. Los Angeles is the other. Everything else in the US network is a twin-aisle.

02

Qantas is the only carrier operating four-cabin A380 service between the United States and Australia. First, Business, Premium Economy and Economy on the largest passenger aircraft ever built — a genuine product differentiator that almost no traveller has seen from the inside.

03

At roughly seventeen hours it is one of the longest routes in the world. That length is the asset, not the obstacle. It is the only context in which the cabin can be shown as a place rather than a seat.

04

The timing is the booking window. North American demand for the Southern Hemisphere summer is decided in late autumn — not in January. Published in November, this campaign lands while the decision is still open.

The same structure applies to San Francisco–Sydney, or any single long-haul leg, if network priorities point elsewhere. One route, one film, one approval round — the origin is a variable, not a premise.

Pacific Sector · Equirectangular 01 Active Sector
The film

The crossing is the story.

Reference frame — A380 upper deck cabin at cruise
Treatment reference · direction, not final frames
Hero Reel DFW → SYD 60s+ Airbus A380

Seventeen Hours South

Dallas/Fort WorthSydney · ≈17 hours · Southbound

The largest passenger aircraft ever built, crossing the largest ocean on earth, to a city on the far side of everything. Seventeen hours treated as a destination in its own right.

Selected work

Three pieces, three proofs.

The package

Four assets. One approval round.

One Reel that carries the argument, three that live natively in the feed, and a license that covers the organic and paid rollout for a full quarter.

Investment

Campaign total.

All-in, fixed

$8,500

One route, one hero film, three ambient Reels, and a three-month commercial license across organic and paid. No staged fees, no per-asset add-ons.

Creative development Script, storyboard, approval round $1,500
Production Single journey, on location $3,000
Post Edit, colour, sound design across 4 assets $2,500
Commercial license 3 months, organic + paid $1,500
By Qantas

Round-trip fare DFW–SYD, premium cabin, plus cabin access for filming. Everything else above is covered by the campaign fee.

Timeline

Built to move inside a quarter.

T–3 weeks

Pre-production opens three weeks before departure. Script and storyboard go to Qantas for the single approval round.

Oct–Nov 2026

Filming on the southbound leg — late October or November 2026, on the daily A380 service.

Booking window

Hero Reel delivered and published inside the Southern Hemisphere summer booking window, while North American demand is still being decided.

Following weeks

Ambient Reels roll out across the following weeks, extending the campaign's shelf life well past the hero drop.

Available to travel on short notice.

Pre-production needs three weeks, not three months. If there is unspent budget in this quarter, this campaign can be shot, cut and published inside it.

The creator

Who is behind the lens.

@legefilms — director and cinematographer

@legefilms

Director · Cinematographer

A travel content creator with a focus on storytelling. Every piece is built around a narrative rather than a shot list, with a colour signature made per campaign rather than pulled off a preset shelf — written before it is shot, and cut to hold attention well past the first three seconds.

Instagram (@legefilms) ↗

Audience composition

Creator-reported platform analytics, as of 1 September 2026. Full media kit and raw platform exports available on request.

Ready to go south?

A 30-minute walkthrough of the treatment, the shoot plan and the delivery timeline. One call is usually enough to green-light or pass.

@legefilms

Seventeen Hours South

Prepared for Qantas · 2026