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Useful Tips To Improve Your Aerial Cinematography

By Angela Williams


Drones are devices used for aerial photography and cinematography when a camera is attached to it and take interesting and unique angles of scenes. These are controlled remotely by an operator on the ground or autonomously with computers programmed in advance. Using them commercially by professionals help them provide new ways of capturing moments, objects or people.

Getting bigger drones and better cameras with improved lens, dynamic range and resolution is possible though operating them have complications and drawbacks. Improving shots is more important with aerial cinematography Canada even when your gears are not the best. Here are several valuable tips for improving your abilities in producing quality videos for the clients.

Scout ahead the location days earlier or just before your clients would arrive in that day to check and do tests on the area. This lets you see how the land would be laid out, check for some magnetic interference and avoid unflattering scenery. Flying drones at new locations helps to familiarize your surroundings and in avoiding obstacles later.

Pick a subject and settle on it to know the best way of framing and executing the shots by focusing on a person, street, tree or building. The focus may change during the process or you have none but be aware of your intentions and not only randomly shooting. When you pick a subject, consider also how to start and end that particular sequence.

Do some rehearsals and take shots even if conditions are not that good to lift off pressure and improve in capturing the next ones. You see something not easily noticeable at your location and a better way of approaching it can be developed. And you will have extra videos if you cannot get the right ones you have been aiming for.

Drone cinematography happens usually outdoors and that means weather conditions like cloudscape, lights, precipitation and wind affects it. These things are uncontrollable so get yourself ready with your camera being properly prepared with their set focus, charged batteries, formatted cards and rights settings. These things are controllable and if circumstances are better, take the shot immediately.

Shoot the sequence smoothly because sudden movements will remind the audience they are watching a video and ruins their perspective. Best ones are usually not complicated and doing too much is not needed to prove yourself to others. Simple and clean view are enough for serving the story and having someone to operate the camera while piloting the drone helps achieve this.

Decide how will you fly the drone for getting the desired shot although flying them higher makes operating them harder. Creating a motion sequence requires them to move faster and farther when they are in greater heights. Flying them just above tree lines, lamp posts or a few stories would be enough to get the eye view which birds have.

Use the element of foreground to make a scene with more drama and placed it between your subject and you. Examples are fence, tree, car or wall that moves in and out of frame. Wide shots tend to look without movement if foreground is not used.




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