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HEAVY LOAD CineAero specialises in bespoke multicamera arrays for aerial photography
Having started in ‘the early days’ of drones, he spent the first half of his career doing industrial inspection with the technology. “I was working offshore, onshore, in industrial environments, dealing with fire, flares and power lines – all that dangerous stuff,” Rose explains. While that work provided him with plenty of invaluable experience, he says he ‘was getting a bit too long in the tooth’ for the industrial scene. He then got the call to work on a film – and the rest, as they say, is history. RISING STAR Rose worked for an aerial filming company for a total of five years, learning plenty
about working on film and high-end TV sets and independently developing his own knowledge and understanding of all elements of aerial filming – as well as researching and building new camera systems and drones that were world firsts for the industry. In 2021, he made the decision to start his own company, CineAero, and most recently established CineArray – “to be able to continue my passion for pushing the boundaries of filming technology.” Since then, CineAero has moved up in the world, securing commissions to work on several huge films including the Fast & Furious series. In fact, it was for that franchise that the relatively new company ‘decided it was time to seriously branch out into the multicamera-array world’, so it ended up developing new multicamera systems specifically for drone use. “Historically, arrays have been big, heavy and bulky – these aren’t suitable for aerial applications, particularly not for a drone,” Rose adds. “Knowing there was a demand for this, I built a new type of camera system comprising stripped- down, lightweight cameras and an “I was offshore, onshore, dealing with fire, flares and power lines – all that dangerous stuff”
CINEAERO IS AN aerial filming company providing bespoke packages for big-budget Hollywood productions, despite being less than two years old. Founder Dani Rose’s journey into the world of aerial cinematography dates back to 2010, when drones were still in their nascent years. As a pioneer in this field, he was among the initial few pilots to earn certification for operating drones and utilising their cinematic capabilities. “I was one of the first people to get permission for aerial work,” he remarks. “When the first set of flight permits became available, my pilot ID number was 0124. If you did it now I think it’s around 25,000, which shows how far the industry’s come.”
HIGH-SPEED SHOOTING CineAero developed a line of medium-sized drones for maximum mobility and moderate payloads
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