Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Helpful Tips In Improving 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.

You can get bigger drones and a camera with better resolution, lens and dynamic range but operating them have drawbacks or complications. Improving shots is better for aerial cinematography Canada rather than having great gears only because skills are more useful. Here are several helpful tips in improving your abilities of producing for your clients quality videos.

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.

Rehearse and take several shots even when you do not have the optimal conditions to lift off some pressure and in improving your next captures. You may see something not immediately noticeable on your location and develop how to approach it better. You would have extra videos for back up in case the right ones you desire could not be gotten right now.

Usually, drone cinematography happens outdoors which means it is dependent with the weather like wind, cloudscape, light conditions and precipitation. The things we could not control so ready yourself by getting your camera prepared with formatted cards, set focus, right settings and charged batteries. You could control these things and can immediately take a shot when circumstances become better.

Shoot smoothly the sequence because sudden movements would remind the audience that they are watching video which ruins their perspective. Usually, best ones are not complicated and too much being done is unneeded in proving yourself. Clean and simple view is enough to serve the story and separate operators for the drone and camera helps in achieving this.

Decide on how high you need the drone to fly in getting the shot you want though the higher they go, the harder they are to operate. Creating a sense of motion in great heights requires moving them faster and farther. Keeping them up for a few stories or just above lamp posts or tree line is enough in getting an eye view like a bird does.

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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