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Angela Watercutter Drones

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A Critical Review of Angela Watercutter, 2015, “How drones changed the filming industry”.

The article “Drones Are About To Change How Directors Make Movies” by Angela Watercutter is very informative and insightful because the author gives the reader a great bit of information about what is happening around our movies. This article is written by an author working in a company called WIRED. This article is biased towards the people who love technology and filmmaking together. The author also made this article not too formal by having some illustrations like, changing “rain” into “Winter Storm Thor”.

The author concluded that having an aerial shot might be nice, but the author tried flying one herself and she stated that her dream of capturing beautiful aerial shots will be dashed as of her uncontrollable thumbs. She was also accompanied by a brand manager from Horizon Hobby, Steve Petrotto, and he gave the author an excellent lesson in taking cinematographic footage with the drone. The author knows it’s possible to create an awesome film with a drone as she has seen a short from Youtube called “Superman With a GoPro”. …show more content…

(Fabian Chaundy, 2017) Who needs a huge gimbal just to take stabilised footage. (DL Cade, 2017) With a little “outside the box thinking”, filming a whole movie with just a drone is definitely possible. Both these articles shows the same video on their article showing the filming result of just the handheld drone and the result came out tremendous. The people in the video did a smart thing of getting just a drone rather than getting a camera, lens and a stabliser. Since then, a lot of drone making companies started to make their drones into a substitute for the handheld

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