house.mp4
critique welcome
Hey Brian,
I just got my first drone (Q500) a couple of days ago, but I've been in real estate investment for 30+ years. My wife is a real estate agent. We have made videos of homes, but infrequently... none by drones... yet. ;-) Videos and photospheres posted on-line is the next generation of home marketing, in our humble opinion.
Although I bought the drone for fun, this kind of thing was in the back of my mind.
You invited comment, so... ;-)
- Overall, nicely done, but could use several improvements.
- A better feeling for the setting of the home could be had if you started high on a "community shot" and descended to a street, down which you flew the last 50~75 feet to the house at a "high car" eye level, entered the driveway slowly and began to rise up for that great frontal shot you took.
- May I recommend orbiting the home rather than fade in/out on each face of the house.
- The drone could then descend from the orbit to the front door.
- When entering the house, the eye leads to the living room. IMHO, you took a premature left turn to look down the hallway. Go to the living room, but turn left as you enter to show the focal point of that room, the fireplace. Then pan the rest of the space turning right. That's a nice open space between the living room, dining room, and kitchen, which was not adequately captured and presented... again IMHO.
- When you entered the bathroom, the long shot to the left (shower) is where you should go first, then pan around to the free standing tub.
- When transitioning from one room to another, the transition you used from 2:45 to 2:55 was excellent. Strive for that kind of thing.
- You also were probably trying to capture too much. When we have videos shot, we're looking for some dynamic impression and a general layout... walk-through feeling. Some things are better left to stills. The camera can take nice stills as well, so... ;-)
Please don't take this too badly. I think this attempt was very good. This is the critique I'd give to photographer if he were shooting one of my properties.