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Adam Rubin breaks down his gorgeous wedding Walking The Aisle drone footage

Jul 16, 2016 by Udi Tirosh 9 Comments

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The web have been sizzling with Kaveret’s drone footage of a bride walking the aisle. It is a gorgeous cinematic footage of a wedding at Pelican hill at Newport beach, California.

The footage was taken using a Phantom 4 and it is quite different from any drone wedding video you have seen to date. We sat down with Adam Rubin, Kaveret’s CEO and drone operator to break this shot down.

Filming The Walk

Adam tells DIYP that this was not a trivial shot, and that there was a few factors contributing to the complexity of the shot.

The hardest thing for me was to make this shot in a single cut. You are telling a different story with a single long take than when you’re combining several short cuts. The impact of a single cut creates a significantly more impactful experience. In terms of storytelling it feels as if everyone is waiting for the bride to arrive at the alter. The audience, groom, family and guest are all waiting until the bride arrives.

I tend to agree, and while Adam will probably never admit it, this scene can be easily connected to the Goodfellas Copacabana long steadicam shot which again sets the narrative of the story to revolve around Ray Liotta.

The other issue that Adam had to deal with is that the walk was not scripted or orchestrated by him, and while the general flow of the walk was pretty obvious, the timing of it was not planned. Adam says, that while he had the camera movements script built, he still had to be alert and adjust according to what was actually going on.

About Noise

We asked Adam about the issue of motor noise. Adam tells us that between the height of the Phantom and the 4 monitors  the noise was barely noticeable.

Cinematographic breakdown

Adam says that

while sometimes just getting a different angle with a drone provide a good story element, adopting the same camera movements that have always worked can bring a lot of added value to a drone shot. The only difference is that there are now 5 axis to consider: X, Y, Z tilt and pan. This makes a shot immensely more complex, and as with all wedding footage there are no second takes

Adam was kind enough to provide a movement by movement breakdown exclusively for DIYP

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.net

About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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