I got a job shooting a construction site - Need advice!

[dronie]

I got a job shooting a major construction site (29 floors high, cranes, atriums etc.) for internal use only (no storyline).
Apart from the obvious shots (overview, building activity, scale) anything I should pay extra attention too? Ideas for really cool shots?

Input so far:

• shoot exterior elevator going up
• pay attention to any rc controlled concrete booms (2,4 or 5,8 GHz)
• calibrate compass in park next door - away from metal

Other ideas or input?

 

[Thresher]

Will you be shooting in an enclosed space, or will there be a cross breeze?

 

[dronie]

It's outside only, but will also be flying in between buildings with 10m apart.

 

[Leszek Kedziora]

Look for the directional antennas (usually on the roofs) and dont fly in front of them. Check the direction of wind currents between the buildings. Good luck

 

[Luis Morales]

stay away from iron, i once flied a naza v2 in a very big advandoned building and the iron int he foundations near the sub parking area totally mess up the compass i had to manually control yaw to keep direction as the controller was unable to do it by itself.

 

[PittsburghPilot]

If you can get building dimensions especially helpful would be the floor heights and overall building heights.. then you can correlate those to your altimeter on the control app..

 

[MrTVR]

As with all jobs, plan the shots (in your head or drawings on paper) make a list of them, fly them, check them on site and re-fly if needed.

There's nothing worse than getting back to base only to find that all you have generated is a random set of poorly exposed, aimless & wobbly drone shots

I find it useful to capture a fair amount of ground based video to add to the edit to create a some variation and make the aerial footage look more impressive.


Sent from my iPad using InspirePilots