Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Stock Footage
A collection of videos from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, available in up to 4K UHD quality.
Duration: 9 minutes and 54 seconds
Total Clips: 26
File Size: 3.95GB
Capture the final moments before the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games with Clip Pack #48, featuring stunning 4k footage of the newly completed Alexander Stadium. This pack showcases the transformation of the stadium just before the world-class sporting event.
The collection includes 19 drone clips, 6 gimbal clips, and 1 breathtaking drone hyperlapse timelapse, offering a variety of angles and perspectives to suit any project. You’ll find wide, establishing views, orbiting shots, and top-down angles of the stadium and its surrounding areas. The nearby M5 motorway is visible in some clips, showing the busy traffic as it passes by, while the stadium’s final details take shape in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games.
The hyperlapse shot, filmed a month or so before the Games, is a stunning aerial view that pans across the West Midlands, capturing both the stadium and the flow of traffic on the M5. Additionally, the 6 gimbal shots feature unique perspectives, including views through trees that showcase the stadium and the training areas in their near-completed form.
If you're looking to see how the Alexander Stadium evolved, be sure to check out Clip Pack #46, which features footage from 2019, before the redevelopment began, and Clip Pack #47, showcasing the stadium in 2021 during the construction phase.
This collection is part of my extensive Birmingham stock video footage range, offering a detailed look at one of the city’s most iconic venues. Whether you’re working on a sports documentary, city profile, or any project related to the Commonwealth Games or Birmingham's redevelopment, this footage will provide valuable visuals to elevate your production.
Duration: 2 minutes and 22 seconds
Total Clips: 7
File Size: 0.95 GB
Description:
Captured in 2021, this clip pack showcases the early stages of the Alexander Stadium redevelopment in Birmingham. Featuring footage of major construction work outside the stadium, this pack highlights the development of car parks and various facilities as the stadium neared completion.
For a comprehensive view of the stadium’s transformation, I also have separate footage available from 2019 (showing the old stadium before redevelopment) and 2022 (featuring the completed stadium in preparation for the Commonwealth Games).
Duration: 8 minutes
Total Clips: 32
File Size: 3.2GB
Description:
Clip Pack #46 features exclusive archival footage of the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, UK, shot in 2019. This archive stock video footage provides a fascinating look at the stadium before its major redevelopment for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Full disclosure - Captured with 2019 drone technology, the footage may not have the sharpness or advanced features of today’s drones, but it is still high enough quality for television and various productions. I don't have a time machine, unfortunately, but the footage offers unique and valuable insight into the original state of this iconic stadium.
This pack showcases 32 high-quality drone clips, covering sunrise and daylight shots, providing a variety of aerial perspectives of the stadium and the surrounding areas. You’ll also get views of Birmingham’s city skyline and landscape, offering a snapshot of the city’s atmosphere pre-Games.
Birmingham was awarded the 2022 Commonwealth Games in 2017, and the development planning of the Alexander Stadium began shortly after. This pack captures the stadium before its transformation into the world-class venue it became for the Games.
This footage is part of a larger collection, which includes:
2021 footage showing the ongoing development of the Alexander Stadium
2022 footage showing the completed stadium, ready for the final preparations for the Games
Clip Pack #46 is perfect for those documenting Birmingham’s transformation and the legacy of the Commonwealth Games.
The above aerial timelapse shows the Birmingham NIA, the National Indoor Arena, Arena Birmingham area and a generic city background lit with lights as the city began hosting the 2022 commonwealth games. It’s available HERE
This incredible low-spinning aerial view establishes an exciting vibrant Birmingham scene as the city prepares for the Games. Drone use was strictly controlled during the event, and this exciting shot will live on as a unique memory. The image spins past the Longines Official Timekeeper and Birmingham 2022 sign, before carefully moving through spectators and passersby in front of the Library of Birmingham until it settles with a view of the branding above the entrance.
Let the games begin!
This unique Birmingham 2022 clip is available ONLY HERE.
More from the BIRMINGHAM 2022 Commonwealth Games Collection
A hyperlapse aerial view of the University of Birmingham area with a Birmingham city centre background. The venue hosted squash and hockey during the 2022 commonwealth games.
A closer look at the hockey venue at Birmingham University, in real-time. The collection holds more variations of this venue.
The collection holds a variety of generic views of Birmingham buildings and landmarks as the city prepared for the Games. This shot of Centenary Square and Birmingham Library included the Birmingham 2022 Megastore and branded tram as it moves through the city during Games time.
Hosting the athletics events, Alexander Stadium received £700m of redevelopment work in the years leading up to the 2022 Commonwealth Games. You’ll find a selection of aerial views, ground views and timelapse from around the stadium.
This summarises the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games EXCLUSIVE stock footage collection. It holds 52 stock video clips of the highest quality from in and around Birmingham in 2022. In addition to this, we also hold a NON-EXLUSIVE video and image collection from the 2022 Games.
The NON-EXCLUSIVE Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Collection
This collection holds old archived footage of the 2022 Commonwealth Games venue prior to development. The following preview clip shows Alexander Stadium prior to its £700m investment in 2019. LINK
Along with unique views as construction got underway, with large fields and grass areas being dug up for new buildings and car parking.
Across the city, building and development works continue at Sandwell Aquatics centre, a new venue which held the swimming and diving events.
In addition to the stock video, it’s in the non-exclusive collection where you’ll find stock photos of many of the 2022 venues.
Birmingham 2022 Collection Notes
All footage in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Collections is available for royalty-free use through POND5 with various levels of indemnity. It has been responsibly captured by West Midlands-based specialist camera operators and added to these collections for future news and documentary use.
This footage was captured, and is, almost entirely editorial in context, and it has no affiliation with Games or the city of Birmingham. Contact POND5 via the links for licensing terms and to make use of an automatic 20% discount for new customers.
About the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was the largest Commonwealth Games event ever held, with 72 participating nations and over 1.3 million ticket sales.
Taking place throughout Birmingham and the West Midlands, the 2022 Games was also the first to have more events for women than men. Along with the Games themselves, a cultural festival was held across the city and wider West Midlands area.
The 2022 Commonwealth Games marked the last time that the Games were held under Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, prior to her death in September of that year, one month after the conclusion of the Games.