Learn how to make stunning aerial productions both from filming with a drone initially and then from impactful editing afterwards.If you want to know how to make stunning aerial productions both from filming with a drone initially and then make an impactful editing and montage afterwards.
The ability to video and photograph the world from a unique,
breathtaking, aerial perspective, using a drone is now available to all.
The opportunities this presents for video-graphers, photographers,
hobbyists and professionals alike is extraordinary.
This course covers basics from selecting your drone, editing software and aerial camera. It has some guidance on initial flying skills and exercises for producing good aerial productions.The course then goes beyond the basics and introduces, with extensive aerial footage to illustrate the points, a unique framework to guide all your flying and filming missions. This focuses on the extraordinary outcomes you should be aiming for in your aerial imagery and the flying you should be doing to get those outcomes.You are then taught how to plan your flying and filming missions using this framework. You are taken through a range of unique in-course and online tools & resources to aid you in this planning. You will learn through a real example to show you how to apply the framework and tools to plan a successful flight.You will then learn how to take the aerial footage and turn it into a stunning video production. You will be introduced to 25 design principles to follow and a software-generic 8 step editing workflow. This will be demonstrated by using Final Cut Pro X, but much of the demonstration will concentrate on how to apply the design principles and framework to guide the creation of the aerial video.