A brief history of how we learned to fly the camera. [Editor's Note: We asked Sasha Rezvina to write this post due to her work with Aerobo drone company.] Two silhouettes are huddled next to each other, remote controls in hand. It's golden hour, and while one is staring at a monitor attached to their control, the other is squinting at the flying camera. The camera, the RED Weapon carrying Ultra Prime lenses, is 800 feet in the air while flying at approximately 30 miles an hour. The pair has the words “Drone Crew” stitched across the backs of their t-shirts. Within three hours, production will have a stunning establishing shot to weave seamlessly into the narrative of their film. But aerial footage was not always so accessible to filmmakers. This same shot once cost production upwards of 50 thousand dollars and often cost stuntmen their lives. From to jet planes, to helicopters, to drones, we've been attempting to strap wings to cameras since the dawn of cinema. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 24 May, 2018