Robert Keyes

Micro-budget, so unfortunately the VFX Artist is out of budget. Cartoon/hand sketch was originally proposed, however the client really wants practical so we're heading in that direction. Out of focus aerial footage isn't really a concern - you can now set the focus manually on most consumer drones. Personally, I have a flight mode where one of my sticks controls focus and panning, whereas the other stick controls elevation, tilt and acceleration. Joerg, I think that shooting a plate at 120p is a good idea: I'll try that. Steven, excellent idea on sugarcraft flowers! We're having some delivered for a test tomorrow.

I'm in the testing stages for a commercial, where one of the storyboard shots calls for a flower floating through the air (& down a mountainside,) and I'm somewhat stumped on how to achieve this look. Initially, I tried to do this in-camera: first, by designing & printing a rig to hang the flower ~10" from the front of a consumer drone (minimum focus distance of the Mavic 3), but found that the prop wash made our small flower flutter wildly. The second attempt was to hang the flower behind a small glider, but again found that the wind speed made the flower behave erratically. Now, I'm searching for advice on achieving this look through VFX. How would you approach filming this? I'm considering shooting a very tight plate of a static flower, then compositing it into some out-of-focus aerial footage of mountains - but would be unsure of how to make the final shot appear coherent, with changing lighting conditions and small amounts of wind.