{"id":2844,"date":"2020-04-30T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww3.ambientskies.com\/aerial-cinematography-and-all-the-places-you-cant-fly\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:48:13","slug":"aerial-cinematography-and-all-the-places-you-cant-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambientskies.com\/blog\/filmmaking\/aerial-cinematography-and-all-the-places-you-cant-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial Cinematography And All The Places You Can’t Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a… Drone? Yes, they’ve taken over our lives completely the past 6 to 7 years or so. Whether you like it or not, they’re here to stay. <\/p>\n
Yeah, they’ve got consumer ones for your kids and people over 40 still playing video games. But they’ve got tricked out ones for the food industry that’ll deliver your meal to you. The military has probably been using the tech the longest and the ones they own are rarely seen and off spying on an enemy somewhere or delivering a payload. <\/p>\n
One industry that’s fully embraced the technology is the Film & TV community. No longer do producers have to drop tons of money on renting helicopters and risking the lives of their camera operators. There’s a much more affordable and safe option available now.<\/p>\n
DRONES!<\/a><\/p>\n And they’ve got all kinds. One’s small enough to get in tight spaces with a built-in camera and one’s big enough to hold a fully rigged cinema camera with robust PL lenses. Granted, the less weight you put on them, the more battery life you’ll have so you’ll want to go barebones and choose a lens option that’s lighter weight.<\/p>\n But whatever the drone type, all drone operators find themselves in a pickle when they’re caught flying in spaces that they shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n We’re going to explore the places where you can and cannot fly and drop a little dose of education on you.<\/p>\n Here we go!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ah the great outdoors. Reminds me of old’ smokey the bear. Those were the good times weren’t they? Packing up the family car or truck, trekking off into the middle of nowhere and soaking up that fresh air. Whether you did this as a kid or not is irrelevant, what is relevant is the isolation that the vast land provides. Out there you’d think you have all the room in the world to just pull out your drone, snap some quick footage really quick and continue on.<\/p>\n Well, you could, but technically you’d be breaking the law.<\/p>\n Even if you’re out in the middle of nowhere and you’re entirely secluded, you still need a permit if you’re in any national forest or park. The permit isn’t hard to acquire, just go to the government site for whichever state you’re in and navigate yourself to the national parks & forest services section of the site, there, you’ll find a portal for permits. Click on that link and the site will likely walk you through the process.<\/p>\n Another useful site with plenty of information on rules and regulations is uavcoach.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This one’s kind of a no brainer right? Any drone operator that’s near an airport would assume (I hope) that they’re not allowed to fly in or around that airspace and that they might impede the safety of air traffic. But some operators may not know the exact details of that regulation. And not knowing could land you in some hot water if you get caught where you shouldn’t be.<\/p>\nNational forests\/parks <\/h2>\n
Airports<\/h2>\n