Course Description

The first course that applies narrative fiction exclusively to aerial footage.

What is it about?

  • If you want not only to take beautiful pictures of the sky with your drone, but also tell exciting stories, that have a beginning and an end, and for them to be an authentic experience for your viewer, this is your course.

Why take this course?

  • Here you'll learn how to make an authentic aerial production. To get the most out of your drone and your camera, first you should understand the components that each of them has.
  • Knowing the necessary settings, and specially how to change them to get different results, will make you discover a new world.
  • Based on the negative and positive experiences from all the productions already made, and adding many of the questions that users ask me, you'll learn a new air language. I'll put you in the situations that you'll face, and you'll learn ways to solve them.
  • Above all, this course is about telling a story. Do you ever get tired of seeing landscapes and more landscapes no matter how pretty they are? It's time to learn what a story is, what elements is made of, and especially how to apply it to aerial footage. This course is a pioneer in applying fiction exclusively to this type of recording.

How is the course structured?

  • Even when you know how to get the most out of your drone, in this course you'll learn the tools to make your productions even better. You'll understand and apply editing and post-production processes, to both image and audio. From a good synchronization of both, color grading your footage, working on good titles, to manual audio editing that will make viewers have an even better experience.
  • Finally you'll do some exercises in which you'll be able to show everything that you have learned.

Come on in, you won't regret it :) ! You'll enjoy and learn things that you never imagined you were able to do.

Professional Videographer and Drone Instructor

Alex Assenmacher

Hi everyone, my name is Alex Assenmacher, I'm 25 years old, born in Barcelona, Spain, and a professional filmmaker, including aerial videography. My professional adventure started in Vancouver, Canada, by the age of 17. I studied a Master in Art and Communication Media, which I continued doing later in San Diego, California. Being 19 years old, I returned to Barcelona to study a cinematography college degree, which I finished 2 years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Fortunately I have been able to travel a lot and work in many different countries with really distinguished cultures such as Germany, Brazil, Canada, the US, or Spain, surrounded always by professionals that taught me (and still do) everything I know today. I'm really happy that platforms such as Ulearning give us the opportunity to keep growing and teaching our experiences. I'm really happy to be teaching part of my knowledge! If you want, you can check out my drone videos on my youtube channel, clicking on the logo above :). See you inside!!

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course :)

    • Demo Video

    • Introducing the course
  • 2

    Security and guidelines

    • Laws in your country

    • Common sense
  • 3

    Settings before flying

    • Introduction to all the settings on your drone and hardware

    • ISO

    • Shutter speed and Frame rate (FPS)

    • Aperture

    • ND filters

    • Exposure Value and how to set it on your drone

    • Hardware and extras for your Drone

    • Checking the location

    • Learning by doing exercises: "Settings before flying"
  • 4

    Control and flight

    • Introduction to control and flight

    • Basics for taking off and landing + your position

    • RTH
  • 5

    Flying and filming techniques

    • Introduction: Techniques

    • Image Composition

    • Shots and speed

    • Learning by doing: exercises "Flying and filming techniques"
  • 6

    Telling a story

    • Introduction: a Story

    • Be a good story-teller

    • The three-act structure
  • 7

    Editing your visual footage

    • Introduction: Editing

    • Software choice

    • Premiere Pro (basics) and editing tips (pt.1)

    • Premiere Pro (basics) and editing tips (pt.2)

    • Selecting the content

    • Cutting and putting together the content

    • Color grading (basics)

    • Titles

    • Learning by doing: exercises "Editing your visual footage"
  • 8

    Music and audio

    • Introduction: the Soundtrack

    • The importance of audio

    • Copyrighted Material

    • Best places for free audio files

    • Editing audio

    • Learning by doing: exercises "Music and audio"
  • 9

    Final Video

    • Upload and share + student videos

    • Film your drone video
  • 10

    Extra

    • Interesting places to keep an eye on

    • Extra Software