http://petapixel.com/2014/10/27/ok-gos-new-music-video-will-blow-mind-fancy-drone-camerawork/
"Brown reports that the entire video was done in one continuous shoot, and that it took 50 or 60 tries to get the final version."
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"For the final shot, which features umbrellas making up “pixels” of a giant human-powered display, was shot by flying the special camera drone about half a mile into the air and controlling it manually and with GPS."
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"During the filming of the video in Japan a couple of months ago..."
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Interview with Damian and Tim fro OK Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCwzaTPARtU
I read that some of the sequences were double speed. I can't imagine the rehearsal time and the 50-60 tries they had to do to get it right.
And we used to think that dancing on treadmills was cool.
you can see the shadow of the drone on the pavement very briefly at :59 seconds in and props aren’t spinning. It's on this dolly
Last picture here
http://petapixel.com/2014/10/27/ok-gos-new-music-video-will-blow-mi...
Great umbrella sync at the end was amazing.
@Aaron Shaw I think your right. You can see the video shake (something is off the stabilzation) while on the ground.
Wow, love it!
In one of the pictures it shows the octocopter on a dolly. I would think they used the dolly for the indoor shots then launched once they were a ways outside.
Pretty cool video. I'm curious how they started with the S1000 flying indoors, then moved outdoors, without any GPS problems.