Drone & aerial cinematography
Get above it, legally, including over a city.
An aerial shot is not one more angle: it is often the only one that shows the whole thing. A factory, a construction site, a gathering, a building in its surroundings — from the ground you describe them; from the air you see them. We fly in Lyon, Paris and Geneva, over cities as well as open country.
A drone isn’t only for going high. Indoors, a light aircraft crosses a workshop or a hall in a single move, where you would otherwise have to lay track. In FPV, it drops down a façade or follows a machine at a speed no handheld camera can hold. Those are two uses people rarely associate with drones.
Our pilots are camera operators too. That is what makes an aerial shot say something rather than simply fly over: the drone goes where the film needs it, not only where the machine can go.
Our pilots are certified and declared with the aviation authorities, and our flight scenarios approved, in France and in Switzerland. The certificates go out with the quotation, without your having to ask.
- Declared pilots and approved flight scenarios
- Overflight permit applications
- 4K aerial footage
- Indoor work with a light drone
- FPV when it needs more energy
The equipment, and why it is doubled
For TETRO, the Carré Sénart drone show called for a doubled fleet: we fly three types of aircraft, built and set up by our own teams according to what the shoot needs.
And we always carry a spare. An aerial shoot doesn’t get a second run: a failure is fixed by swapping machines, not by rescheduling the day.
What can be seen from above and from nowhere else
In the Vercors Regional Nature Park, the drone gives the scale of a massif that nothing shows from the ground — which is exactly what it brings to an industrial site or a construction project.
It is also the only way to inspect a roof, a chimney or a structure at height without scaffolding or a cherry picker.
The legal side is part of the preparation
Flying over an industrial site, near an airport or in an urban area takes permits and declared pilots. We handle those applications up front, and we tell you at the scout what will be possible on the day of the shoot.
That is what avoids the most expensive situation of all: a crew on site and a flight refused that morning.
Filming a building, a site, a construction project
For C’PRO, flying over the Eole park served to show the building itself: where it sits, its volume, the way it fits into what surrounds it. From the ground, none of those three things is visible — you only ever frame one façade at a time.
It is the most frequent case for our flights: a head office, a factory, a project under construction. The drone gives the establishing shot, the one almost every corporate film opens on, and it lets you follow a build from month to month from exactly the same point of view.
A factory is understood from above
From the car park, you see a façade. From the sky, you see the layout, the flows, the real scale — and what the site has become.
Six situations where you have to get above it
Showing the scale of an industrial site
A factory is understood from above, not from the car park. The aerial gives in ten seconds what a ground shot takes a minute to suggest.
SFS building envelope & structureMaking a system installed at height legible
A fall-arrest lifeline on a roof can’t be photographed from the ground: you see neither its run nor what it is anchored to.
SFS fall arrest lifelinePresenting a group spread across several sites
Aerial work links places that nothing links visually, and gives unity to what is scattered across a region.
IRISOLARISInspecting what you can’t get near
Roof, pylon, high façade: the drone films with no cherry picker and no scaffolding, and without shutting the site down.
SFS joinery & industryOpening a film on a shot that places you
The first shot of a corporate film decides the attention. An aerial says where you are before a voice explains it.
IRISOLARISCovering an outdoor event
A gathering, a race, an opening: seen from above, the scale is visible instead of being described.
Carré SénartCan you film by drone over an industrial site?
Yes, with the operator’s agreement and a prior declaration depending on the zone. Processing takes anything from a few days to several weeks near airports or sensitive sites — it is the first item to open in the schedule.
What happens if it rains on the day?
A drone doesn’t fly in rain or beyond a certain wind speed. So we set a fallback date at planning stage, and we organize the rest of the shoot so it can go ahead whether or not the flight does.
Are your pilots declared and insured?
Yes. Our pilots are trained and declared, and the flights are covered by our professional liability insurance. The certificates come with the proposal — most industrial clients ask for them.
The other services in communication & marketing
Show what no camera can film: the inside, the invisible, the not-yet-built.
Make the complicated legible, in seconds.
Key, composite, and place your speakers wherever you want them.
Get height, legally, city centers included.
The film that says who you are — to your clients, your candidates, your teams.
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