Drone Reel 1
A reel is an argument about range. Holding a drone steady is the easy half; what decides a shot is which altitude, which speed and which direction of travel the subject actually wanted. The rest of this is those choices.
- Collection
- Drone · 02 works
- Frames
- 02
- Format
- Film · poster frame
Altitude is a decision, not a setting
Ten feet up reads as a person's view of a place. Two hundred reads as a map. Neither is better, and picking the wrong one is the most common way an aerial shot fails — it answers a question nobody watching was asking.
- Altitude
- Speed
- Approach
- Distance to subject
Range is the only thing a reel can prove
A reel cannot show you a project. What it shows is whether the operator has more than one idea, and the tell is simple: are two shots in it solving different problems, or the same problem twice at different addresses.
Graded against the ground footage
Aerial booked as a separate job arrives as a different color from a different day, and every minute of the edit after that goes into hiding it. Flown inside the same call sheet and graded in the same pass, it arrives as coverage rather than as a second shoot to reconcile.
Frame 01 / 02
- Source
- 1920 × 1080
This one moves — the full reel returns with the site’s media phase. What you see above is its poster frame.