Drone 101
Those blades.
What are propellers?
A sense that relates to your eyes.
What is sight?
These drone shots are smoooooooooooth.
What are cinematic shots?
Start really close, end really far.
What's a reveal shot?
The battery life of the drones we use here.
What is 5-7 minutes?
A thing on a drone that can shoot videos and photos
What is a camera?
A quantity caused by air changing pressures and measured with an anemometer.
What is wind speed?
A type of shot where the drone is flying with its camera all the way down
What's an aerial/birds eye view shot?
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (What?)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (Starts with an 'O')
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (Yeah)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'
What is an orbit?
The max height drones are allowed to fly
What is 400 feet.
It gives a drone life.
What is a battery?
An area that prohibits you from flying.
What is a no-fly zone?
When filming, drone pilots create ______ _____ for the best cinematic shots.
What are flight paths?
A shot that follows a winding road.
What is tracking?
Most cinematographers use this for aerial shots before drones.
What are helicopters?
It binds with the drone and gives it inputs the flight controller can execute.
What is a remote controller?
Always do this before flying!
What's a pre-flight check?
This ensures that the camera and the output footage are both stable
What is a gimbal?
Forwards and Up.
What's a dolly zoom?
Military Drones are known by this abbreviation.
What's a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)?
A specific type of motor that are used for drone propellers.
What are brushless motors?
Drones must be under this limit for consumer use without requiring a license.
What is 250 grams?
The art of colour correcting.
What is post-processing/colour grading?
Tilt the camera sideways to create a dramatic angle.
What's a Dutch Angle?
The most popular drone company that sounds like an instrument.
What's DJI?