Hello my friends, Kai here and in this video we're going to be showing you how to get better cinematic engaging shots with your fancy filmmaking devices, more specifically with FPV drones. Originally starting as just another underground hobby, FPV has been breaking barriers and it's probably entered your world somehow through other social media, mainstream television and even now the big screen. The possibility seemed endless in all directions. But as we've seen time and time again with any new flashy technology, the novelty eventually fizzles out and eventually the mainstream is going to move towards something new and shiny. If we don't want people to forget our efforts and be remembered, we have to stick in their minds and you can do that by doing a crazy trick or pulling off a stunt that's never been done before or you can do all of those things and also use a strategy that has been with humanity since the beginning of time and that's telling a story. So today we're going to learn how to craft stories unlike any other using this amazing unique device FPV and how we used it to craft a shot for a upcoming event happening here in San Diego. So a couple days ago I hit up my friend Jason who's throwing a jam this weekend at our local gym in a pecs school of movement and I asked him if he would be interested in shooting a promo video to spread the word. The only thing was I was out of town the previous week so we didn't really have time to plan and we were really going to go and build this thing together. So we gathered together the night of At the venue with our friends who were cool enough to help out and be a part of the video and we took some time to map out the content. A story is comprised of three main parts. A character, a desire and the conflict. In our case we decided to frame the character as the venue as apex school of movement. The desire to showcase this school in a way that would really engage people and get them to come and in this case the conflict was that apex's social media posts weren't quite reaching the level of energy and engagement that we thought would be necessary to get people to come to the event and to come to the venue. With that in mind we started working together to combine our talents and construct a flight path that would fulfill this criteria. We're definitely doing this with the good old bright-dink spirit all-free style you know how it is. It's a good time for exciting. For guys, adapt, crash. Showcase just how precise and unique an FPV video can be. We decided to opt for a one-take shot. And because of that that means there can be no mess-ups on the part of timing, on the part of the dancers and the part of myself or else that means we have to start over. And that can also mean if everyone is not in sync and if we're not prepared to coordinate enough Oh shit I'm fucking that can eat up a lot of time and energy. Crash into something so yeah that was on me. It had already been almost two hours. The guys were being really cool but I could also feel that the energy was gradually starting to deplete. And due to all the practice runs and mistakes that we had already done I was running out of batteries as well so we had to get this take soon. We went for like one or two more practice runs just to make sure everybody was in sync. After ironing out some kinks and making sure we over came any barriers with communication. All right I got it this time I got it. We opted for one more try. Come on. Okay I'm set. Let's do it. All right here we dig. Let's go! Yep! Nice! All right here we go zero. Oh that's pretty go. Let's go Deggy! Yep! Let's get it! Let's go! I'm not a jacket! Finish us! At the end of the day I think we all were able to feel like we got a shot that was able to showcase our skills and also showcase the space in a way that nobody has before and if you look a little bit deeper you can also see that there were other layers of the story you can look into. There wasn't just apex the space but there was also us as the characters with the desire to capture the shot with the conflict that it's never been done before and we were running out of tries and time was against us. This YouTube video is a different story with you being the character learning something new with your desire to become a better at Phoebe Pilot or learn how to tell better stories. Conflict is you may not have that information yet and we're taking you on this journey and we're learning something new together. Thank you guys for watching. This has been Kai. If you found this video helpful leave a like and subscribe to see more and leave a comment because I take a look at every single one of my YouTube comments and who knows your idea may spark the next video. In fact it probably will. So take a look at these two other videos if they look relevant to you and I will see you guys very soon in the next one. Thank you very much. Peace!