Drones: How To Tell Aerial Stories [100% Renewed In 2022]

Don't just film something from the sky. Tell a real story and film beautiful places with your drone.

What you'll learn
Tell astonishing stories trough aerial filming
Don't just film landscapes, create stories
[Fully renewed course 2022]
A really good story has a great pre and post production.
You will know how to fly properly and film breathtaking shots
You will organise your productions much more efficiently and professionally
Focusing in the psychology of a viewer
Requirements
Owning a drone or planning to buy it and of course a computer :)
Being proactive and having a great desire to learn
Feeling enthusiastic about learning new skills and raising the level
A strong desire to create experiences for the viewers
Description
The ONLY course that applies narrative fiction and psychology tricks exclusively to aerial footage. [Fully new course 2022][Trusted by more than 3k students]What's it about?Are you tired of boring landscape shots with your drone? Start telling exciting stories with your drone, with a beginning and an ending. You want your videos to be a truly genuine experience for your viewer. Take full control of your drone, know all its settings, understand pre and postproduction. And most importantly, play with your viewers psychology learning the most important tools about storytelling.Be finally a pro drone filmmakerWhy take this course?Here you'll learn how to make an authentic aerial production. To get the most out of your drone and your camera, first you should understand the components that each of them has, and how they work, in order to get very specific results, that will make you discover a new world.Based on the negative and positive experiences from all my productions already made, and adding many of the questions that users ask me, you'll learn a new air language. I'll put you in the situations that you'll face, and you'll learn ways to solve them.Above all, this course is about telling a story. Do you ever get tired of seeing landscapes and more landscapes no matter how pretty they are? It's time to learn what a story is, what elements it has, and especially how to apply them to aerial footage. This course is a pioneer in applying fiction exclusively to this type of recording.You'll be joining a closed Telegram group for students where you'll be able to post your footage and get instant feedback from other students and the instructor."As a beginner, and with my DJI Mini 2, I never thought I could improve my films that much. I am SO thankful that I came across Alex's course. I've learned so many new things, techniques, tools and shots, that I literally went from deceptive videos to decent productions within a few weeks. I can only recommend this course to anyone seeking to understand the power of a well-developed story, the mastering of your drone and all its settings, plus knowing how to edit your videos with great colors and appropriate music. If I could give you 100 stars I would Alex. For those who don't know him, he's a very kind instructor always answering students doubts and questions. What a nice experience this has been. ★★★★★" Higashami N., [Feb. 2022]How is the course structured?Even when you know how to get the most out of your drone, in this course you'll learn the tools to make your productions even better.  You'll understand and apply editing and post-production processes, to both image and audio. From a good synchronization of both, color grading your footage, working on good titles, to manual audio editing that will make viewers have an even better experience.Finally you'll do some exercises in which you'll be able to show everything that you have learned.Come on in, you won't regret it :) ! You'll enjoy and learn things that you never imagined you were able to do.

Overview

Section 1: Welcome to the course :)

Lecture 1 1.1 Welcome

Lecture 2 1.2 Drone Choice + Your Purpose

Lecture 3 1.3 Social Media Today (Your BEST platform)

Lecture 4 1.4 Common Sense

Lecture 5 Extra: Important Links

Section 2: Settings before flying

Lecture 6 Intro: Section 2

Lecture 7 2.1 ISO - What is it? - How to use it?

Lecture 8 2.2 Shutter Speed & Frame Rates

Lecture 9 2.3 Aperture

Lecture 10 2.4 EV

Lecture 11 2.5 ND Filters

Lecture 12 2.6 Testing ND filters

Lecture 13 2.7 Resolution and Frame Rate (2)

Lecture 14 2.8 Color Profiles

Lecture 15 2.9 Camera Style Settings

Lecture 16 2.10 White Balance

Lecture 17 2.11 Drone Menus

Lecture 18 2.12 Hardware Extras you should Purchase

Lecture 19 2.13 Checking the location

Lecture 20 2.14 Choosing a Good Location

Lecture 21 2.15 My equipment

Lecture 22 Learning by doing: exercises "Settings before flying"

Section 3: Control and Flight

Lecture 23 Intro: Section 3

Lecture 24 Basics for taking off and landing + your position

Lecture 25 3.2 RTH

Section 4: Flying and filming techniques

Lecture 26 Intro: Section 4

Lecture 27 4.1 Image composition

Lecture 28 4.2 Shots and speed

Lecture 29 4.3 Intelligent Flight Modes

Lecture 30 4.4 Quickshots

Lecture 31 Learning by doing: exercises "Flying and filming techniques"

Section 5: Telling a Story

Lecture 32 Intro: Section 5

Lecture 33 5.1 Being a good story-teller Pt.1

Lecture 34 5.2 Being a good Story-teller Pt.2

Lecture 35 5.3 Three Act Structure

Lecture 36 5.4 The three-act structure (example)

Lecture 37 5.5 The Mood

Section 6: Editing your visual footage

Lecture 38 Intro: Section 6

Lecture 39 6.1 Software Choice

Lecture 40 6.2 Premiere Pro (basics) and editing tips (pt.1)

Lecture 41 6.3 Premiere Pro (basics) and editing tips (pt.2)

Lecture 42 6.4 Premiere Pro (basics) and editing tips (pt 3)

Lecture 43 6.5 Premiere Pro (basics) and editing tips (pt 4)

Lecture 44 6.6 Rendering and Working Faster

Lecture 45 6.7 Proxies

Lecture 46 6.8 Titles

Lecture 47 6.9 Color Correcting

Lecture 48 6.10 Color Grading

Lecture 49 6.11 Extra: Soundbank Websites

Lecture 50 Learning by doing: exercises "Editing your visual footage"

Section 7: Music and Audio

Lecture 51 Intro: Section 7

Lecture 52 7.1 The importance of audio

Lecture 53 7.2 Copyrighted Material

Lecture 54 7.3 Best Soundbank Websites

Lecture 55 7.4 Best Free Music & SFX Websites

Lecture 56 7.5 Editing Audio

Lecture 57 Learning by doing: exercises "Music and audio"

Section 8: Final Video

Lecture 58 Film your drone video

Section 9: Extra

Lecture 59 Extra Software

Anyone interested in enhancing their skills in aerial productions,If you want to go a step further and not just film beautiful scenery but expressing feelings or stories,If you want to create experiences for the viewer, this is your course,If you are only looking for legal advice, this is sadly not your course,Although the basic security guidelines and common sense actions will be taught in this course