there are five types of drone slots that are essential for almost any video you're gonna
film whether it's for you or for corporate clients and today i wanna show you what those five drone
shots are hey my name's jake and i create content here to help solo creators on the go today we're
talking specifically about drone shots and the five different kinds of drone shots that i film
for every single type of video that i film whether it's me out doing stuff like this in alaska or
whether it's for corporate clients i basically use a variation of one of these five shots
in every video pretty much uh not necessarily all five but i make sure i get all five so that
i have the option to use at least one of them in any kind of video that i'm gonna produce
number one is the classic establishing shot and that's typically a very high
very wide just kind of maybe not even moving maybe static but i always like to have a
little bit of movement in those shots where it shows off the entire area and maybe you
can see your subject in the area but a lot of times you really you might not be able
to even with buildings or corporate clients a lot of times you can't really necessarily see
the subject but it just establishes where you are where your subject is or where the story
the video is taking place and so in case of these shots here you see kind of you see the
subject in some of the shots but not all of them but it shows you and establishes where you are
for the story for the beginning of the film for the beginning of whatever video you're producing
and it gives you gives your audience an idea of where the next few shots where the next bit of
the story is going to take place so establishing shots very important they're very easy to get and
they're probably one of the more common ones that most people think of when they think about drones
after establishing shots comes another kind of shot that i always like to get and that's where
you're a lot closer or fair amount closer to your subject and it does more establish your subject in
the location so it ties together that first big wide vast opening shot whether there's a lot of
movement or it's just very static to where you are going to be and what your subject is in that frame
or in that location so in my case here i'm a tiny person walking in a huge mountainous area with a
red jacket on because it helps me stand out which is a pro tip if you're going to be in places like
this wear something that's that makes your subject stand out from the background so that it's easy to
find but these types of shots i really like to use an orbiting type shot where you just have a
really nice side to side movement that does a couple of different things one it gives you a
really nice lots of movement sweeping movement that sort of reveals more information to your
audience to your viewers as you go but it also just makes it much more interesting and much more
uh fun to watch and much more engaging to watch it gives your audience a lot more information
about your subject and the location that they're in now i use this on everything from buildings
to you know corporate offices all those kinds of things to obviously me my friends and i
out exploring alaska but an orbiting shot that's kind of a medium close shot where you can really
see the subject but you can still see a lot of the location really helps to tie your subject
into the location that you use the establishing shop for in the beginning
and then we come to one of my other favorite shots and that's the reveal shot now a lot of these
i will come around from behind something to reveal your subject in a location or fly really low and
just slowly point the camera up as you're going along to reveal more information to reveal your
subject in the location to reveal a specific thing about that location or a specific you know office
building or something like that but the reveal shot is really nice because it not only helps
to establish but it also keeps people interested because there's information being given out to
them over time and typically for that i do like to do the fly-through kind of motion where you might
have your subject walking in front of the drone and you're following it through or you might fly
through you know a narrow corridor or something like that to reveal the information to reveal your
subject in that location in a whole new way now you don't necessarily have to film these in this
order it kind of goes with wherever your drone is at the time and you just film these shots but
if you film all these shots i guarantee you'll have enough drone shots to really do some nice
establishing work and to really reveal a lot of information to your audience as the video unfolds
and then we come to one of my favorite which is just an interesting shot there might be a really
interesting landmark or there might be something very interesting about the location or something
interesting about your subject and so finding an interesting way to use the drone to show off that
feature or that thing now this is typically a lot closer of a shot and maybe it might start really
close and then pull away or it might start high straight down and come down and do what's called
a jib shot where it you tilt the camera up as the drone is coming down and it kind of reveals
the background around your subject as you're uh dropping down but these shots are just
a way to show something that's interesting show a perspective that your your audience
the people watching the video wouldn't necessarily see and it's about revealing
something interesting and showing something interesting from that perspective that you
you just normally wouldn't see so these are a lot of fun shots these are the ones you really get
creative with i love to do spiral orbiting shots as i'm coming up and down i like to do the jib
shots as i'm raising up or lowering down i like to do the droney the pullback shot to kind of reveal
stuff because you can start off on a really close point of interest and then back way off
and reveal a whole bunch of information but these are the shots you get really creative with
and then we come to one more type of shot that you can use a drone for which is actually
basically a really static shot but because most drones add some sort of tracking ability
if you hover it just a few feet above the ground and you track your subject
you can use it to kind of just give a really simple panning shot that will follow your subject
as they move through a location these are really handy to just be able to use a kind of a storyline
and then you you move into a different section or you move into something else and it's a
good transition shot or a good b-roll to add over something else so using your drone as a
b camera on a tripod sort of so to speak where it's hovering just a few feet above the ground
six seven feet above the ground or four or five feet above the ground and tracking your subject as
you move through it's really helpful to be able to use those kinds of shots to be able to transition
or hide an edit point in your video now if you want to learn other ways you can improve your
drone videography and photography click or tap right there i put together a short playlist as
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