Unmanned aerial
vehicles surely made a lot of our daily tasks easier. Nowadays, we have Amazon Prime Air, a drone-empowered air
delivery service and CyberHawk, a drone-operated live inspection service. Both
of these are a testament of how developed drones have become. Although drones
and UAVs have been used in several industries, their contribution is yet to
reach its optimum potential. However, perhaps this is not the case in cinematography
and film production, an industry at which drones and UAVs became an immovable production
pillar in the last years.
In the era of
billion-dollar blockbusters and computer-generated imagery, getting exquisite
shots during filmmaking is indispensable. Drones and UAVs help movie directors
do exactly that. It’s fair to say that they have changed the way directors
shoot movies. With the help of drones, directors nowadays can shoot impossible
shots. The modern drones are easy to operate. They are simple enough for
cinematographers who are familiar with remote controls and joysticks to capture
excellent shots. Drones made techniques like aerial and crane shots easily
doable if you’re a good drone pilot. Especially that the cameras strapped to
drones are equipped with three axes stability, which almost guarantees a
perfect shot, even if you’re not that good of a pilot.
The cinematic possibilities
are large and the sky’s the limit. Recently in a segment in Good Morning
America, a company called DJI that manufactures drones for filmmaking, showed
footage filmed by a drone of an erupting volcano in Iceland. Before the
introduction of drones, such footage was almost impossible to take. It was too
risky for humans and too far away for satellites, which neither had the lens or
the angle to capture such unique footage. The footage looked like a piece from
a natural science documentary. It was equal quality as ground footage shot by camera men.
DJI, owned by Chinese
drone overlord Frank Wang, announced on the 17th of April the
release of the most powerful drone ever to be used in filmmaking, the Matrice
600. A short video was released online demonstrating how powerful this new
drone is. The video featured a cinematography director filming a martial arts
scene using the drone in Beijing. The new Matrice 600 is compatible with a wide
range of attachable cameras. It allows professional cameramen to use small DSLR
cameras like Canon, Panasonic, Black Magic, Sony, Nikon, and large RED cameras as
if they’re being handheld. The footage shown was spectacular, to say the least.
The Matrice 600 is only
the beginning of a new line of powerful camera-carrying
drones that is changing the very
nature of filmmaking as we know it. Previously, large movie franchises like
James Bond’s Skyfall and the Harry Potter series have used drones to film some
famous scenes. With the success of these filming techniques, one can only
expect that at some point flying drones and unmanned aerial vehicles will take
over film cinematography entirely, rendering the regular cameraman obsolete and
reducing his role to a remote control holder. Luckily for the film industry,
directors are tinkerers by nature and learning new tricks always falls in the
audience’s favor.
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