Film grammar / Camera movements
Drone Shot
Aerial movement: flyovers, reveals, pull-backs.
What it is
Drone shots move freely through the air: orbiting summits, flying over terraces, pulling back from a rooftop. They have replaced most helicopter shots in commercials and travel films.
When to use it
The best ones still have a subject and a direction; aimless aerials read as stock footage.
How to prompt it
Name the move ("drone orbit", "drone pull-back", "drone push-in") and the subject it is anchored on.
Drone orbit around a climber raising an ice axe on a snowy summit above a sea of clouds, sun low on the horizon.
4 examples in the library
Rooftop Dawn
drone pull-backwide
Summit
drone orbitextreme-wide
Caldera
drone push-inextreme-wide
Green Hills
drone orbitextreme-wide