A Melbourne hybrid shooter flying the aerial sequences that show a site, a build or a brand at its scale, cut into the website film, the YouTube edit and the social media cuts, and matched to the stills from the same visit.
Every flight is built from the story before the battery goes in. The drone is chosen for the brief, a lightweight rig for agile, low impact work, and Inspire class or heavier systems when a production needs cinema resolution, a thermal head or live coverage. CASA licensed and insured, with ten years of flying across Victoria, interstate and overseas under the local rules. One point of contact from brief to delivery, part of the drone photo and video service, with stills on the drone photography page.
Usually three or four aerial shots in a ninety second brand film, used as punctuation. Nine by sixteen versions are framed on the day when you ask for them at booking.
Yes. Stills and video come off the same flights, so one pilot covers the aerial photos and the footage on one visit, and you book one person instead of two.
Quoted as a fixed fee against the brief. A single site visit for a few establishing shots is a very different figure to a full day across several locations with an edit attached.
Always. Shots are planned before the battery goes in, so the footage cuts into an edit rather than sitting in a folder. Send a storyboard or edit structure and the flight plan gets built from it.
Yes, and tell me at booking. Send the frame rate and colour profile your existing footage uses, and I will match it on the day. Delivered graded to sit inside your edit, not jump out of it.
Aerial footage is graded and delivered with the film, usually two to four weeks after the shoot day, with a revision round in the edit. Talent, several sites or approvals can add time.
You get a commercial licence for your own marketing on every platform, paid ads included, with no media buyout. I keep copyright and the right to show the work in my portfolio.
Framing is agreed before the flight and shots are reviewed on the day, so most changes are settled before we leave site. Revisions on the delivered set are part of the job, not an extra.
Only where the site sits in controlled airspace, near people outside the operation or over a populous area. Where an approval is needed, allow a fortnight and build the shoot date around it.
Send the address, the brief and the date you have in mind through the contact page. I check the airspace, then come back with a fixed quote and the flight plan.
Tell me the location, the date and what the footage must do. You get a weather window and a fixed quote before booking.
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