DRONE PARIS – FREEFLY ALTA 8
This is our second shoot for NHK Tokyo in the heart of Paris. Our first shoot took place at the Tuileries gardens. Our drone company was chosen among all the others for our know-how with our drone capable of carrying their Red Helium 8k camera. Japanese production had a requirement, shoot in 8K and with 60 frames per second, so with a red helium. Flying a Freefly Alta 8 in the center of Paris is something rare and a challenge to get all the necessary permissions, a challenge that our drone company has raised and won.
FOREIGN PRODUCTION DRONE PRODUCTION
Foreign productions often call on us for our know-how and our skills in aerial photography in drones. In a week we shoot for Americans, Japanese and English, our production company is a reference for foreign productions and prefers to ask us rather than to bring their drone teams, especially for the quality of our shots but also for all requests for overflight clearances.
DRONE PARIS AERIAL SHOOTING WITH RED HELIUM 8K
The challenge of this shoot was also technical because the production request was to fly a Red Helium 8K camera with cinema optics, follow focus etc … Our freefly Alta 8 is able to carry 9.1 kg so we had to take into account the weight of each lens, Connex etc … We did a lot of testing before moving on the shoot, weight test, empty flight etc … On a configuration like this there is so much technique that if a cable does not not all the system is Off. But with a lot of rigor and concentration, our shooting went very well, the drone aerial images that we realized are superb.
DRONE REGULATION IN PARIS
To fly a drone of 13 Kilos in the heart of Paris is an important administrative challenge because the legislation in force authorizes the overflight in urban area with a drone of less than 8 kilos and equipped with a parachute rescue system. Christelle who is in charge of all authorization requests at Freeway has done a remarkable job to allow us to fly our Freefly Alta 8 and the Red Helium in the heart of Paris. Our Alta 8 is S3 approved and is allowed to fly in urban areas provided that it is attached to a rope so captive. For this production it did not bother us absolutely because the movements had to be slow because filming in 8k, the information in the image is so important that you can not make fast movements. The Prefecture of Paris police allowed us to fly over conditionally, that the gardens of the Tuileries Gardens are closed and that security agents close the areas at the opening of the Park.
TAKING AIR VIEWS DRONE IN PARIS
Our aerial aerial images shot men 8K are superb, they are rare because we are the first to have stolen a drone 13 kilos in the heart of Paris with a camera RED Helium 8K. We are very happy and proud to see that important productions like NHK trust us, they are not disappointed because we always manage to honor our services. Foreign productions call us more and more to realize aerial images in Paris. Our drone company has become a reference in terms of requests for filming authorizations but also for the quality of aerial photography in drones.
