Have you ever come home after flying your drone, watched your footage, and thought… it looks nice, but somehow flat or boring? You're not alone. A lot of drone footage looks random or amateur, even when the location is beautiful. The problem usually isn't the drone or the location. It's the movement.

In this class, you'll learn how to combine different drone movements to create cinematic shots that work together as a visual story.

What You'll Learn

Why drone footage often looks amateur & the 4 rules that fix it immediately
The 5 core motion building blocks every cinematic drone shot is made of
How to create reveal shots that introduce a location with curiosity and flow
How to use vertical movement to show scale and make landscapes feel epic
How to guide the viewer's attention to a subject or detail
How to combine multiple movements at the same time for dynamic, cinematic results
How to turn your clips into a short sequence with a clear visual story

Why Take This Class

Most drone tutorials teach you to copy specific shots. This class teaches you to understand movement, so you can design your own cinematic shots anywhere you fly, with any drone, in any landscape.

You'll come away not just with a list of moves, but with a new way of thinking before you ever take off.

Who This Class Is For

This class is for drone pilots who already know the basics of flying and want to take their footage from nice to cinematic. No advanced drone is needed, everything is done manually and works with almost any model. We won't cover technical camera settings; the focus is entirely on movement, composition, and storytelling.

Materials & Tools

Any drone with manual flight control
Any video editing software you already use (for the class project)

Don't forget to share your project in the Projects section, so everyone can see your work and get inspired by each other.

And if you enjoy this class, you might also like my Landscape Photography class, where we explore similar ideas like depth, leading lines, and visual storytelling, but through the lens of a camera.

Ricardo Santos

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