Drone Film
Created on : October 18, 2023 08:19 | Last updated on : January 17, 2024 12:25
Denotation
Drone Film is the film or video captured by remotely-operated or autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) or more commonly, as a drone.
Definition of Drone Film
Drone filming is a dynamic type of aerial filming with several benefits for filmmakers: Reduced cost for aerial footage compared to helicopters. Filming in small or confined spaces helicopters cannot access. Capture new perspectives outside the usual vision from the ground.
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are featured in several films. Over the last few years, there has been no shortage of films dealing with drones... audiences have recently had to explore a form of modern warfare whose true repercussions are yet to be fully understood, let alone divulged to the public. Films and television shows increasingly grapple with those unprecedented aspects of war (Good Kill). Instead of taking place in trenches and on battlefields, these new movies and television series must keep the action moving in situation rooms full of computers. Additionally, they tackle ethical and tactical issues that traditional World War II films were unable to.
Drone Films hasn't participated in the discussion up until now. Like London Has Fallen, they either disregard the human presence at the controls, underlining the strange nature of a distant, robotic death, or they treat drones as merely another item in the arsenal—a great way to create larger.
As an illustration of one of the first drone films to work in the grey areas of drone warfare (Eye in the Sky). Those films examined the moral struggles of military personnel as they conduct missions with clinical precision while far removed from danger.
Use of Drones in Film
Many Hollywood film and television productions have used drones to supplement or replace legacy filming equipment like camera cranes, jib arms, car-mounted U-Cranes (chase cars, motocranes, Russian Arms, etc.), as well as helicopter-mounted camera packages, ever since the ban on commercial drone use was lifted ten years ago.
Drones give film directors, DPs, and cinematographers a plethora of creative options in addition to producing breathtaking aerial video for establishing shots and heart-pounding action scenes. Film and Television producers may now obtain shots with them that were previously unachievable, too risky, or too expensive to accomplish with the aforementioned heritage filmmaking equipment because to their small size, agility, and substantially cheaper cost. Drones are also being used more and more in pre- and post-production for tasks like remote site scouting, aerial 3D mapping and scanning, plot creation, shot list building, etc.