Entertainment
The rise of drones in Hollywood
Breaking through the clouds and zooming in to landscapes, gliding over a lake, chasing fast cars, narrowing down focus to one subject … a straight-down view of the Earth below like never before, with nothing but a flying device and a camera perched on top. That’s what drones offer to the world of filmmaking.
Drone Cinematography
Scenes of a film or TV show are shot from the characters’ point of view (POV), which leaves the rest to a viewer’s imagination. What if that limit can be removed by expanding the viewer’s line of sight? This is precisely the lure of drone filmmaking. But let me take you back a bit. If you were impressed with the opening motorbike chase in the James Bond film Skyfall or the pool party on Long Island in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, that’s because they were both shot using a drone. In the last decade, drones have inspired cinematographers to create a whole new world perspective at potentially a fraction of the cost – one that could not have been possible with aerial filming. Drones have been used in most big-budget films in recent years, including Captain America, Transformers: Age of Extinction and instalments of the Harry Potter and Mission: Impossible franchises.