MED · Drone
Drone videography + aerial cinematography, Marshall Media: One crew,
two altitudes.
Aerial is usually somebody else's calendar. Booking it separately is how a shoot ends up with a second weather window, a second scheduling round with the property, and footage that does not cut against the rest.
MED · 03/09
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- /media/drone
- Division
- Media
- Output
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- Registers
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- Status
- Productized
MED · 01
Two vendors, two weather windows
Count the days between your last aerial booking being agreed and the flight actually happening, then count the ones after it while the edit waited on the file. Almost none of that was flying. It was a second calendar, a second permission conversation with the property or the venue, and a grade pulled to match footage shot on another day.
MED · 02
What the aerial is for
Aerial earns its place when the shot cannot exist from the ground: the parcel and everything around it, the roofline, the build a month on from the exact position it was flown from last time, the move that follows a car out of frame.
- Aerial cinematography
- Property + development
- Site progress
- Events
- Follow + tracking shots
MED · 03
Flown on the shoot day
The aerial sits inside the same call sheet as the ground unit and is graded in the same pass. One weather call covers both, one permission conversation covers both, and the edit receives a matched set rather than two shoots to reconcile.
MED · 04
Licensed, insured, permitted
The operator flying is a licensed vendor — Part 107. Around them sits the production agency: Marshall Media carries the production insurance, obtains the location permits any shoot needs, and handles the back-and-forth with the county or the organization that owns the ground. You are hiring a production, not managing a pilot's paperwork.
- Part 107 licensed operators
- Production insurance
- Location permits
- County + organization coordination
MED · 05
Water, and what it does to a frame
A property, a marina, a build or a venue reads completely differently the moment water is in the frame, and South Florida is where we learned to fly it — glare, wind off the ocean and light that turns fast, which is a scheduling problem before it is a flying one. That reading travels. Coastline is coastline in Malibu, and the same call gets made over a river, a reservoir or a rooftop anywhere else.
The rest of media.
MED · 09 service areas
- CinematographyCommercial, documentary and narrative work, cut for the screen it will actually play on.
- PhotographyStills that hold up cropped to a square and printed at A1.
- Cinema roboticsMotion control for the move a human operator cannot repeat twice. Same pass, frame for frame, as often as the shot needs.
- 3D + animationModels, environments and animation built to render and ship, not to look good in a viewport.
- Augmented realityDigital elements placed into the real world, at true scale, on the device the viewer is already holding.
- Virtual realityEnvironments a person can stand in, turn around in and judge at their own height, before anything is built.
- Graphic designHierarchy first. The eye goes where we sent it, at any size.
- Multi-media productionMost jobs need more than one of the above. One lead scopes the shoot, the stills, the aerial and the cut as a single delivery.
Proof · 01 collection