An aerial shot either tells the audience something the ground cannot, or it is a postcard the editor eventually cuts.
Miami's aerial value is the water — the causeways, the beach line and the way the color reads from altitude in a way it never does from the ground. The trade is the airspace: the corridor everyone wants sits under MIA's Class B.
We work with directors and DPs the way any other camera department does — in prep, on the shot list, and on set as part of the plan rather than a novelty parked to one side. That means matching the look of your A camera, hitting the same marks take after take, and knowing which moves read on screen and which just show off the aircraft.
Miami International anchors Class B across the metro, with Fort Lauderdale and Opa-locka adding their own airspace to the north. The beach corridor everyone wants sits under the busiest of it. Add hurricane-season temporary restrictions and a marine layer that moves fast, and the planning window here is genuinely shorter than producers expect.
Miami runs on commercials, music videos, fashion and an increasing volume of Spanish-language production, alongside features that come for the look. Turnarounds are short and clients expect an aerial unit that can move at that speed.
We shoot South Beach, the causeways, Brickell, and the water — and we travel. CineDrones works nationwide, so if your production is basing in Miami and shooting somewhere else entirely, that is a normal week for us.
Cinema payloads carrying the sensor your show is already shooting, so the aerial cuts against the ground unit without a fight.
Our aerial units have worked on Ozark, Jack Ryan, Bosch, Mayans M.C., SEAL Team, NCIS: New Orleans, Fear the Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Modern Family, 9-1-1, Goliath, The Resident, Raising Dion, Castle Rock, Doctor Sleep and Chef's Table, for Netflix, Amazon, Apple, HBO, Hulu, Showtime, Sony, CBS, AMC, MTV and Bravo. See the work →
That is most of the job. We shoot to match your capture format and color pipeline so the aerial cuts in without a grade fight. If your show is on a specific body, tell us in prep and we will build around it.
Fly low, fly close, fly inside, and cost a fraction. A helicopter still wins on altitude, endurance and long lens work over open ground. Any vendor who tells you drones replaced helicopters entirely is selling you something.
Yes, and it matters. An aerial unit parked to one side as a novelty produces novelty shots. One that sits inside the camera department produces coverage the editor can actually cut with.
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