Cool Short Film Thriller TRANSMISSION Shot with a Drone in a Single Take

Here’s a cool short film for you to watch titled Transmission created by Mikhail Parkhomenko. This is a brief thriller that was filmed with an FPV drone in a single take. It turned out pretty cool and we are actually seeing more and more impressive drone shots in major feature films these days, but there’s still so much room for them to get better!

The filmmaker shared the following insight on the challenges of making the short:

We had a lot of challenges. One of them was to catch the drone without shaking, because the drone’s motors compensated for the slightest tilt when I grabbed it on the fly. So my goal was to grab the drone as smoothly as possible with my left hand, and Emil Khaziev’s goal was to turn the drone off directly in that time. …For convenience, we printed a special handle made of lightweight material to make it easy to hold and catch. And a lot of practice catching the drone. Also, I made a detailed work with stabilization and masks to reduce motion blur and shaking artifacts.

Check out the short film below and let us know what you think! It seems like it’s pretty simple, but there are a lot of elements involved with actually making a shot like this work.