Unfortunately, the day of the shoot was incredibly windy – it was windy to the point that our final shot outside would have compromised quality because of these huge gusts of wind. One thing you learn as a seasoned production company is that you can plan and plan and plan, but with every project there will be unforeseen hurdles – the true test of professionals comes from being able to evaluate the situation, pivot if needed to and roll with a new plan. So instead of flying in the early afternoon and wrapping out before evening, we had to wait around for the wind to die down. This allowed us a few extra hours of coordination, ideating and planning. 

In order to pull off all this movement, both drone and personnel, we carefully coordinated the drone’s movement through the facility and then timed all the personnel who were moving within the frame of the video. So our forklift operators, our package handlers, everyone single person involved we had on walkie to cue them as the drone made its way through the warehouse. I had a monitor to view the drone’s progress through the facility and called out to each person as we were ready for their specific movement. I called out “Action!” and “Cue the bicycle!” and “Cue forklifts!” on each flight – we had to execute our flight path several times before we finally got the perfect flight, on our last take just before we lost too much sunlight.