Pierce Brosnan and Selma Hayek, filmed in Malibu for the forthcoming film How To Make Love Like An Englishman.
From the Mail Online:
According to a recent report in The Washington Post, a growing number of film-makers are employing the use of drones for their movies.
They include Skyfall, Oblivion, Man Of Steel, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises and Iron Man 3.
The newspaper reports that the use of drones in modern film making has a number of advantages.
Drones have 'more reach than a crane,' and are 'more nimble than a helicopter' meaning directors can pull of more 'risky acrobatic stunts.'
'Ten years ago, when you wanted an action sequence you did them at 18 frames a second, then projected them at 24 - so that you could do them slow but it looks fast,' drone cinematographer Emmanuel Previnaire said earlier this year. 'Now everything has to happen fast. It's become a very demanding industry in terms of motion control.'
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Isn't that exactly what the AMA should be doing?
RC models have been used in movies continuously pretty much since there were RC Models. Go watch Iron Eagles, 24, Nikita, and so on. Those just jump to mind immediately. There's thousands more. And I'm sure the "Special Effects" professionals were paid for building, flying and destroying them. Pretty much anything before 1990 used RC (no CGI).
Its illegal there is no sweetheart deal for the FAA
Hi Marc, actually sounds like the problem to me not the solution.
Great that Hollywood gets a sweetheart deal with the FAA, what about the rest of us who don't own Universal Studios.
The government has a long history of cooperating with and often supplying billions (yes billions) of dollars worth of military hardware for them to play around with (yes our tax payer purchased billions of dollars worth of hardware, you know battleships, carriers, tons of jets, things like that.)
Whereas we the people get the bill and the shaft.
Gary, did you read the article?
It says they ink a one time deal for each filming. No Idea how they do it but the problems are adressed in the article.
I think filming for movies is not comparable to "certain events" happening around FPV at the moment...
The drone looks like DJI s88
Nothing to see here...or hear too, maybe...ugh...
Negative Gary...Obviously these shots are being done by an amateur for his own personal use. Copies of that video just happen to get into the hands of the film makers. And then coincidentally, money is transferred from the movie production company's bank account into the amateur-hobbyist-who-happened-to-be-shooting-at-the-right-place-in-the-right-time's account. Nothing to see hear. Move along...
Of course it is reasonable to see Hollywood adopting these, but aren't they pretty much totally ignoring exactly the same laws that Got the book tossed at Trappy.
I Don't think it's reasonable that in the one case, the ordinary private individual should get stomped on while big bucks Hollywood (who is definitely a commercial enterprise) just gets to ignore the whole thing.
The Law and the FAA do not appear to be giving equal treatment to the individual and the giant corporation here.
Not a surprise, but a pretty blatant violation of Constitutional rights.
I know yet another can of worms, please don't get too carried away with this topic it isn't my intention or desire to hijack it for this issue.
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