Yes, this is a blog devoted to real estate photography and videography. But sometimes ya gotta skirt around the edges a bit, and I wanted to show off this fun video I finished this month.
And this is decidedly NOT a real estate video unless you wanna buy a bridge! But, since passing the FAA Part 107 drone license in May, I’ve been practicing and learning its capabilities (and mine with it). On a bright spring day, I had my drone and came across the Hannah Covered Bridge. I’d been visiting my mother in Gates and kept my eyes open for opportunities to fly. When I stopped at the bridge, I looked around and decided it was worth it, so I took the drone up a few hundred feet and snapped a dozen or so photos.
There are several covered bridges in the area, many near Scio, so it wasn’t long before I found myself at another bridge with my drone in the air. After about the third bridge, I realized that just taking photos of the bridges was one thing, but what about video? I hadn’t done much aerial video, but this could be a starting point. Over the summer and fall, the idea coalesced into a full-blown concept: make a brief video about the ten or so covered bridges within an hour of Salem.
Grabbing the idea by the horns, I revisited about five bridges to get video shots that I could assemble into a fuller video. I completed the filming in November and started to assemble the footage. Add in a little research, write a script, create some titles and silly but fun maps with what looks like a drunken driver in a small car, and the video was complete.
Take a look!