THE ONLY 5 DRONE MOVES YOU NEED TO KNOW - DJI Mini 3 Pro

0:00 today I am talking to you about the top five moves that you need to master to get fantastic looking Drone footage whatever drone you use it's the same moves used all the time again and again on Hollywood films TV shows Instagram YouTube videos it's the same moves I'm going to talk about these five moves and also how to do each one of them let's get into that first one okay so the first one is the top down I personally love this shot you see this all the time literally like on every Hollywood film there's normally some kind of top-down drone shots let's talk about it the top down shot is so easy to do your grandma could do this this is a fantastic shot for establishing this Viewpoint it's like a bird looking down

0:46 at the ground it is awesome now you can just have the Drone literally in place just pointing straight down no movement and that looks good I like to have the Drone high up and then just going down in one continuous motion straight down so just push down on that left stick and make sure there's no jerky movements to the left or right and it's just literally nailed in place do not move that thumb to straight down and this is just one of the techniques that you can do with this top down shot but as you can see it looks fantastic I like to have this either in normal or cine just just to have everything nice and smooth and cinematic we're not rushing here we want this shot to be calming and show

1:33 the whole landscape I think it's absolutely brilliant now you can also start from a lower Point like I've done here and we can go straight up so again it's the opposite but the idea is to have it focusing on one point and just going straight up have your thumbnail straight up a hundred percent nothing just left or to the right I'll just keep it there now as you can see I can now just slightly push it to the left the Drone will now mimic this tilting motion so the Drone is now going straight up with a slight tilt to the left hand side I've not slowed this down it's literally all on me on that thumb so to do this you want to go straight up

2:18 and then slightly off to the left and then hold that Thumb in place if you want to do the opposite side you just hold it slightly off to the right don't move it and you'll notice that I use this shot again and again in every location I go to because it is a fantastic scene establisher it's also easy to do and I just think whatever location you go to this is always going to look brilliant so the next one is really straightforward and simple but it looks brilliant this is just straightforward so really simple to do and you see this again on loads of establishing shots so something where you've got something in the distance looks better let's talk about the forward shot this is a brilliant one the forward shot is so

3:06 overused because it is so good this is a fantastic shot which can be tweaked you can see here all we want to do is push forward on that right stick with your thumb locked in place and just have it on one continuous line is a fantastic shot again shown on every single film every film out there will probably have some kind of forward motion shot now to tweak this what I like to do is as I'm going forward I will then increase or decrease the altitude at the same time just like here I'm flying straight forward my right thumb is not moving but my left thumb is slightly increasing the altitude now

3:53 we're not about severe increasements it's just subtle movements again it's cine or normal works best here we want a nice calming approach to this it's showing that landscape we don't want to be going in sports mode we want to showcase what we can see what that drone is seeing the forward shots and the top down shot are perfect combinations they match perfectly and to make this shot look best it is better to have your drone lower to the ground or close by to something if you're really high up like 100 meters high in the air and you're going forward it's going to look pretty boring we want this shot to Showcase where we are so by being fairly close to

4:39 objects or trees in this example it just makes that shot look even better so for a forward shot don't be super high up this looks better close to the ground with some kind of focal points and then the next one again we're just talking Simplicity here is the sideways shots or like the dolly shots this is a perfect shot easily to be created on any of the DJI drones just focus on a subject and then just pushing right or left super simple but just check it out just how good it looks if I had a film that doesn't have a dolly shot or sideways shots you'll be looking for a long time this is a fantastic shot and it can be

5:25 done in a few different ways so this here I have that top down shot we talked about so the gimbal is facing straight down and I'm just moving in one continuous motion pushing left on the right stick is a great shot isn't it now you can see here Phil waves over beaches it looks brilliant by getting all of these waves hitting the Rocks but it's also good at establishing Landscapes as well so I'm here now just over the sea and I'm just pushing to the side and it's now showcasing all of this landscape and it just looks like it's so smooth like the Drone is just on some kind of Dolly crane it is brilliant it's incredible just how smooth it actually looks make sure you do this shot

6:15 and a really popular one out there is an advanced circular shot called the orbit this is my favorite drone shot I do this all of the time it is a more of an advanced move and it takes on practice let's show you how to do it okay so we're spicing up now aren't we the orbit shots oh I do love this shot I mean show me a video that I've done where it doesn't have an orbit and you'll be looking Forever This is perfect so this is an advanced circular shot and this just basically is the Drone rotating around something or just showing the landscape in a more of a circular fashion now the circle can be done on a quick shot it looks pretty good but the orbit is a manual shot so as you can see here so I'm just going to set off and

7:01 then I'm going to have my right stick facing diagonal left and my left stick facing diagonal right and then your thumbs have to stick in place lock them there so no coffee thumbs here ease off that coffee in the morning when you can do these shots and then just to get the opposite side diagonal right and then your left thumbstick diagonal left complete opposites again and then lock them in place and then just look at this it is awesome I love the orbit shots now we can also do some subtle gimbal movements as well just to move that gimbal as well so it's starting off down and it's facing up or the opposite having the gimbal facing it up and then

7:46 rotate it down as well I love the orbit shot in combination or without using the gimbal at all this is perfect and last but not least is a fantastic shot called the reveal and this establishes that scene the place that you're in it is used all of the time done slow looks perfect let's talk about it such a great shot this so I've got the gimbal facing straight down I've got my right thumbstick facing straight forward and as I'm actually flying forward I'm increasing the gimbal rotation forwards so we're going from the gimbal facing straight down to forwards to reveal the landscape and this is perfect for revealing where you are it's basically a landscape shot list

8:33 is where it's going to look the best but there's a few different ways you can do this so now I'm actually facing really close to this building and flying backwards so now I'm rotating the gimbal to now revealing the landscape again so this is a backwards reveal the first one was if four was revealed this is now a backwards reveal but the same gimbal technique have it pointing straight down to out facing forwards and again another backwards reveal here the gimbal is facing pretty much down as I fly back it now reveals the beautiful landscape in the distance with some motion of the cars I've got the gimbal facing down I'm flying forwards and the gimbal is now rotating forwards as well you can also

9:19 do a reveal whether you've got it pretty close to a subject like me here and I'm just flying the Drone backwards so you couldn't really see that scene and now as I fly further back it reveals the landscape so there's certainly a few different ways of doing the reveal shots but to nail it to make it look the best it's all on this gimbal movement you see the rotation has to be a continuous Pace nice and smooth so don't rotate that gimbal too fast if you do it's going to look terrible it needs to be subtle smooth continuous movements and if it's not I I will spot it and I will tell you so that's the practice here it's just going to any location literally you could use a tree have your drone close

10:04 to a tree fly backwards and then just practice rotating that gimbal ever so slowly upwards so from down to up and it will then reveal that landscape so those are my top five moves and top five drill moves the only ones that you need to know and you see these again and again on every single film every show that you watch there's normally some kind of Drone footage especially for like drone cinematic videos if you just watch it carefully it generally is these same five moves done again and again now gimbal movement is also really important so every single one of those moves rather than just doing the five moves

10:50 I've showed you try and experiment as well and just put a bit of gimbal Motion in there and you'll be surprised Christ just a difference it looks it adds that extra bit of movement which just looks fantastic every single of those shots what I recommend what I personally do I do each one of those for about 30 seconds in length and then when I go into my editor I will just use probably five seconds of it so I'll get the bit where it's already starting it's already in motion and then I'll cut that and that's the clip I will use now what will make this even better rather than using what a lot of beginners do which is across the resolve to go between each clip is to use Sound and Music so if you get like a really good music track like I use artless so if I'm using like a cinematic sound as the actual beat

11:35 changes as there's a change in that beat a sort of noticeable Point that's when I will then put one of the Clips in so it could be four seconds it might be three seconds might be eight seconds might be a longer clip and then I will then edit to the beats and this is a really popular technique something I do all the time what you'll see in music videos Hollywood films is about editing today soundtrack to that music so music's super important if you want to check out artless I've got the links down below but that is brilliant for music and sound effects and it's kind of like putting it all together these are the top five moves honestly it will make such a drastic improvement to your drone flying so I hope you enjoyed that let me know in the comments what your favorite drill movie is really interested to hear out of these what's your favorite one if you are new around here please consider subscribing I've got so much new drone

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