How close a drone shot can be

With this drone shot for the festival trailer “Between the Beats 2015” in Loerrach, Germany, we push our skills of close range aerial cinematography to the next level.
For now, just watch the trailer. We’ll update this post as soon as we can tell more about what happened behind the scenes.
Thankyou Dugly Habits for the perfect cooperation.

lake huzenbacher black forest aerial drone

Summer Film is Coming Soon – Black Forest Adventure

The beginnings

A year ago I met Simon Straetker. He was on the phone and asked for my support in his project: A film about nature. About our area, the Black Forest, located in southern Germany. Showing breathtaking pictures it’s goal is to make people delighted by nature.

During this summer we met for our first shooting close to a road through the highlands of the Black Forest within the national park. The team of young and extremely motivated filmers spent several days and nights in the cold already. Clear skys and the views on the Milky Way are making exertions forgotten immediately.

Shootings for the summer film

We planned to shoot above the Lothar Trail, sunset lights in the forests and the morning fog at the wonderful lake Huzenbacher with the flying 5D Mark III. The drone – more precise an octocopter of older design in the meantime, based on MikroKopter parts – was the platform for carrying it. (Manufacturer: service-drone.com).

Night time has been very short whereas the gravel roads we drove seemed to be endless. It happend that the last flights at lake Huzenbacher were filmed by Sven with his tele lens on Panasonic Lumix GH4 at 96 frames per second (slowmotion). Exactly at that moment the octocopter lost one of its rotors.

The most beautiful pictures, captured in Magic Lantern RAW Video mode – can be seen starting next sunday at 12am MESZ within the Black Forest Adventure summer film.

More about the Black Forest Adventure

black-forest-drone-1

Making Of – Black Forest Shooting with Drone

Enjoying the colors of autumn we’re on our way to capture awesome aerial drone shots from the Black Forest.
Stay tuned to find out more about this project.

Our equipment for this shooting:

  • Octocopter drone DJI S1000
  • Brushless Gimbal Zenmuse Z15 GH4
  • Camera Panasonic Lumix GH4

black-forest-drone-3

black-forest-drone-2

black-forest-drone-4

 

11. Freiburg-Marathon 2014

Letzten Sonntag wurde in Freiburg zum 11. Mal der Freiburg-Marathon gelaufen. So ganz nebenbei wurde die Deutsche Halbmarathonmeisterschaft ausgetragen. Die regionale Tageszeitung (Badische Zeitung) hat Bilder und Videos erstellt:
Marathon-Video, Marathon-Überblick.
(Pilot: Felix Hosenseidl, Kamera: Stephan Schneider)

ZDF Terra X – Superpflanzen

Am Ostersonntag, 20. April um 19:30, ist Fernsehzeit:
Mit „Superpflanzen“ nimmt Dirk Steffens die Zuschauer mit in das Wunderreich der Pflanzen. (Quelle: terra-x.zdf.de)
Mit unserem Oktokopter unterwegs im Palmengarten Frankfurt. (Pilot: Felix Hosenseidl, Kamera: Christian Wohlfahrt)

 

Fredrik Kinbom | Oil | Trailer

Bald gibt es das neue Album „Oil“ von Fredrik Kinbom.
Hier schon mal der Trailer. Gedreht vergangenes Jahr in einer alten Industrie-Halle in Freiburg.
(Pilot: Felix Hosenseidl, Kamera: Stephan Schneider).

Be a beat!

Unser making of vom Foto-Projekt „Be a beat!“ von Thomas Temmer und Dope Skit.
Weitere Informationen und Versteigerung eines riesigen, auf Glas gedruckten, sehr beeindruckenden Fotos im Blog von Thomas.

Europa-Park Winter-Emotionen 2013 / 2014

Entstanden unter Mitwirkung von flymotions.com.
(Pilot: Felix Hosenseidl, Kamera: Stephan Schneider).

Imagefilm Europa-Park Camp Resort

Imagefilm für das Europa-Park Camp Resort mit vielen Luftaufnahmen. Szenischer Dreh mit Protagonisten.
Entstanden unter Mitwirkung von flymotions.com.
(Pilot: Felix Hosenseidl, Kamera: Stephan Schneider).

10 Jahre Freiburg-Marathon II

10 Jahre Freiburg-Marathon, 2013

Man nehme eine große Portion Vorbreitung für Ortsbegehungen, Genehmigungen und Koordination mit allen Beteiligten sowie einige Stunden Dreh und eine Nacht Postproduktion. Genießen Sie das Ergebnis.