Introduction
  • Ready to start?
  • An Overview: Where to spend your time in this course and what to expect
  • How to find all this course's materials in Udemy and give feedback and reviews
Legal and safety
  • Legal considerations
  • EXTRA: For US drone flyers (a link to the FAA site about registering your drone)
  • Safety considerations
  • Safety and Legal
Choosing the right tools for successful aerial productions
  • Software Options For Aerial Productions
  • Drone Hardware Options For Aerial Productions
  • Recommended Camera Choices
Key drone handling skills and their impact on your productions
  • Launching & Landing - different options
  • Different flying modes and how they effect your aerial productions
  • Line of Sight Flying skills - maintaining mental orientation
  • General flying movements to master to help with your aerial productions
  • First Person View Flying and Poor Reception
  • Challenges & cautions flying using a stabilised First Person View image
  • 4 Gimbal Skills To Master
What makes great footage? - Giving it feeling with Video Dramatics
  • Getting the shot - an intro to the Flying Framework for Outstanding Productions
  • Geographical Dramatics: The Beauty Shot - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Geographical Dramatics: The Cover Reveal - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Geographical Dramatics: The Discovery Reveal - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Geographical Dramatics: Movement - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Geographical Dramatics Concepts Quiz
  • Geographical Dramatics: A flight with a view - (EXERCISE and sample video)
  • Flight Dramatics: Speed - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Flight Dramatics: Distance - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Flight Dramatics: Height - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Flight Dramatics: Spy-High - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Flight Dramatics: The Squeeze - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • Flight Dramatics Concepts Quiz
  • Section Summary & Flight Dramatics Quiz - (EXERCISE and sample video)
How to fly to get great footage - Flight patterns to master
  • Introduction to "Flight patterns to master"
  • The Line - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The Line - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
  • The Crab - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The Crab - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
  • The Elevator - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The Elevator - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
  • The 360 - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The 360 - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
  • The Arc - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The Arc - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
  • The Moving Object - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The Moving Object - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
  • The Close Call - (illustrated LECTURE points)
  • The Close Call - (EXERCISE and example VIDEO)
Pre-Flight Planning & Flight Day Management
  • Introduction to pre-flight planning
  • Selecting the location - resources to help with this and checks and guidelines
  • Planning how to film the flying location including a sun positioning tool
  • Using Google Earth and Maps to help you plan your flight
  • Ground Based Footage
  • GoPro Settings - What and Why
  • Check Lists For: Before You Get There & Preparing Your Launch Location
  • Check Lists For: Equipment, Initial Launch and Post Flight Management
Design Principals to follow to edit your footage into something stunning.
  • Introduction to Wow Time
  • Design Principles: Video and Clip Duration - 4 Design Rules
  • Design Principles: Music
  • Design Principles: What must go?
  • Design Principles: Selecting and Positioning Content - Design Principle 1 & 2
  • Design Principles: Selecting and Positioning Content - Design Principle 3
  • Design Principles: Selecting and Positioning Content - Design Principle 4
  • Design Principles: Adding Annotations
  • Design Principles: Editing - Introduction and Principle 1
  • Design Principles: Editing Design Principles 2 & 3
  • Design Principles: Editing Design Principles 4 to 7
How to edit your footage into your final production - An example using FCPX
  • Wow Time: Introduction to Editing Work Flow
  • STEP 1 & 2: Select useable clips and music
  • STEP 3: Mark up the music
  • STEP 4: Colour grade the clips
  • STEP 5: Rank order the graded clips
  • STEP 6: Sequence to the beat and clip the footage down to size
  • STEP 7 - ADD EFFECTS: Re-timing
  • STEP 7 - ADD EFFECTS: Sharpen
  • STEP 7 - ADD EFFECTS: Stabilisation
  • STEP 7 - ADD EFFECTS: Transitions
  • STEP 8 - FINAL TOUCHES: Letterbox
  • STEP 8 - FINAL TOUCHES: Titles
Conclusion
  • Congratulations! and a recap on everything we have learnt
  • My Recommended Flight Videos and Photos
  • Student's Flight Videos