All language subtitles for 2.6 Birds Eye View - Drone Pro Academy

All right, guys, I'm going
to share the second cinematic drone shot.

This is a bird's eye view shot.

Here we go.

All right.

So the bird's eye view shot is a very,
very important shot.

It also emulates a full size
heli type shot.

And it's the shot.

If you can imagine. You're watching
a car commercial right in this.

You see all these tight shots.

You know, the steering wheel
that I shot is doing well.

Then you see a shot from car to car,

you know, kind of like wrapping around
this car as she's racing up this hill.

Then all of a sudden it comes to a shot.

You're way up in the air, you know,

a few hundred feet looking straight down
and you see like this windy road.

And that's the moment as a viewer,
you say, whoa,

we're not on the ground anymore.

We're in the air.

And that's where the the cinematic

aspect really kind of goes crazy.

You know, it's just very, very cool.

And so people say, whoa, he's in the air.

There's something crazy going on here.

So definitely brings the production
value up

in your footage.

So this is a really,
really great shot to do so.

Basically, this shot is,
you know, say we have a car.

I'm not going to be a good artist today.

You really fast.
So we got our our car here.

So basically the shot is going to be
the drone is straight down.

That's going to be our drone shot
and it's looking straight down.

And so you can do a couple
of different things with this.

You can either do a a static shot
where the drone just holds still.

And then the car,
you know, pushes forward.

So you kind of you're just looking down
and he's just kind of moving

through the frame
or you can follow him as well.

So you can have the drone move with him.

So as he's moving, you know,
you're both moving at the same speed,

looking straight down
as you're watching him kind of wind up.

So that's a really, really cool option
that you can get with that.

Another thing that you can do is
you can add a little bit of a twist

to your shots.

You can have your camera operator
kind of twist the camera gimbal around,

you know, and combine that so
you can either be holding completely still

and you're just nice and slowly
turning as he comes through the frame.

And else that's a good idea.

I've done the shot a whole bunch of times.

If you do a twisty shot, you want to try
and make it slow at the end of your frame.

By the time that he gets into the shot,

you're lined up
perpendicular with the road.

So if you're looking straight down, right
this is our winding road, right

right here And your camera frames,
usually you want to start out like this.

This is
if you're going to do a rotation shot.

So we're looking straight down
Here is the road

and here's our car.

So you want to kind of

start your twist here and then you twist

and then he comes into frame about now
and then he drives through the frame.

It makes for a really nice frame.

So that's how you your insane
would be in your beginning frame.

It would be looking this way.

So it kind of comes to here and you slowly
twist as he goes underneath it.

So there's a few tips there
for the bird's eye view shot.

And right now,
I'm going to go out into the field

and show
you guys an example of how to get it done.

This looks really cool.

All right. Here's a bird's eye view shot.

This is like the
wow shot, like the money shot.

I mean, when you're that high,
just looking straight down,

everything just looks cool, right?

Because it's it's
from a different perspective.

It's from in the air.

It's something that people aren't
quite used to seeing yet.

So this is like the powerful kind
of a bird's eye view shot.

This is from a feature film
I shot with Robert Duvall right here,

which is really cool here in New Zealand.

And just looking down shot.

I mean, it just looks really, really cool.

Here's one with the actor

you can see watching TV and popcorn cool.

Sound move to the right a little bit.

So kind of frame up,

Oh man, we're way high, high to 61.

That's not too bad.

Okay,
so we make sure I'm like, straight down.

There we go.

We got the whole thing in there.

How fast?

Maybe a little bit.

He can go faster.

Maybe, But not.

Don't want to crash it, of course,

and see any cars coming.

I think we're good. Good.

All right.

Go ahead and take it well
and just go for a little bit faster.

I guess I'm going to kind of follow him.

I'm going to do the same movement there
he is,

the same kind of movement
as he cruises around.

Nice.

I'm just barely touching it,
barely touching that that that rudder

that he got up.

That was cool, though.

So to fix that, I'm going to push forward

right about

here with to tell him to flip it around.

We're ready to go

if you come straight down here.

Okay?

All right.

It was a good speed.

Do it again.

And action.

Start my move

before he gets into frame
so I can hear him coming right now.

And all
I'm doing is I'm touching the rudder.

I'm straight down.

Starting to move.

So it kind of comes in the frame.

Let's go.

Keep that rudder nice and smooth.

I'm barely even touching it.

Just go all your focus
and keeping that super smooth.

Sweet.

That's cool.

Little bit high in the frame, but

it's very good.

Turn around,

guys.

Bring it down home.

All right.

Go ahead and send them.

All right, Go ahead.

I can't see them. So this would be look,

if you

can see where he's where he's at, I'll

corner.

I was cool.

All right, You're good.

Go ahead and turn around.

Oh, that's cool.

These trees look awesome.

Super tall trees

tilt up, pull back, shot.

Position at the second.

Get your head.

Can do a rising shot.

Can everything

that was nice and easy out cool

Yeah I got it got pretty pretty cool shot

Can I get a shot as it comes up over here?

It's my exposure.

Coming up to us.

Yeah. So?

So here.

Here we go, guys.

We're going to do a bird's eye view.

Straight down shot
with a little bit of a twist.

Thank you.

It's a good idea
to start with the drawing away from you.

So I'm a pro, so I can do it anyway.

Yeah.

This now I can stay down.

I'm going to do a nice twist.

So he comes in the frame.

Okay, go ahead.

Action.

Oh, we got to go after this car.

Give the car like, 20 seconds.

Accidental.

Be a good moment
for me to figure this out.

Okay, Go ahead.

I got a biker coming down

here, so watch Now.

I'll be able to use the cars reference.
So you really came in the frame, right?

Just there. So, Mr.. My move

right about now.

Nice and slow.

Look at that in the frame.

Very nice.

Worked out quite well.

I was able to use the other cars reference
when he was going to come in.

That's good. Save on battery.

Another, another card there.

All right, go ahead.

It's kind of dead,
but yeah, you get the idea.

And then
let's see some of the turn around.

Now, if you ever get lost,
you can look at your compass thing

and figure out which way your face and

for the most part,

let us know when you're

going to do a pull.

Back shot again to.

Show up or down
like an up and collect those trees.

Yeah,

if should

copy. All right. And tell me.

Go ahead.

You guys ready to pull back? Shot.

Go ahead there. Pull back option.

I may be flying through some trees
as we come

back.

I don't see them yet.

Oh, it comes.

If you guys can tell
We have line of sight with the drone,

and he's just going
to pull straight back through

so he knows he's
not going to hit the trees.

So I can see the trees.
I can't tell what the shot is right now.

I'm not looking at it,
but he's going way faster than we are.

It will work faster.

Perfect

if we get a shot.

Yeah.

Cool.

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