Rabu, 06 September 2017

Helpful Tips In Improving Your Aerial Cinematography

By Angela Williams


Drones are devices for aerial photography or cinematography when there is a camera attached to it in taking interesting or unique angles for scenes. These are remotely controlled by human operators staying on ground or controlled by computers autonomously with previously programmed commands. Professionals use them commercially to provide newer ways of capturing objects, people or moments.

You could get bigger drones and cameras with better dynamic range, resolution and lens but they have drawbacks and complications when operating. Improving your shots is important in aerial cinematography Canada despite of the gears you have right now. Here are several useful tips to improve your shots and produce quality videos for your 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 foreground element and put them between you and the subject to make a more dramatic scene. This could be a wall, fence, tree or car moving in then out of frame. Wide shots may seem static without them.




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