Festival photography and filming with drones

Festival filming in Spain has evolved significantly since drones became part of audiovisual services. Being able to fly over the stages and capture striking images from an aerial perspective never seen before has transformed the way the beauty and magic of a festival can be captured for good.

At Droneit, an audiovisual services company in Barcelona, we offer drone festival filming, photography and live streaming of the event. Droneit also provides time-lapse and hyperlapse services to record both the build of an event and the event itself. You can get in touch with us through our website and tell us about your project. Want to know more about how drone festival filming works? This article tells you everything.

Enjoy the experience and capture the moment

Drones let us film a festival far more spectacularly, capturing shots that were impossible or out of reach for the technology used before they arrived. As well as filming and photographing festivals with drones, we can also stream them live.

Drone festival filming lets organisers record the event without interfering with the show itself. The drones fly at a significant, safe distance, so organisers can film or photograph from the air without disturbing festival-goers or performers. It also gives organisers several viewpoints, which makes the experience far more immersive for viewers watching the festival from home.

Drone image quality has improved considerably in recent years. Today there are cameras that record in 4K and 5K resolution, which means the footage you get from a festival will be sharp and detailed.

Using drones for security

These unmanned aircraft can also do more than film and photograph the crowd. Drones can be used for festival security too, keeping watch over everyone from above so that no altercation or incident goes unnoticed. Through their video, drones give festival organisers a wide range of important information.

Time-lapse & hyperlapse

Time-lapse can also be used to capture the atmosphere during an event and the action on stage. Festival time-lapse can also record the set-up and dismantling of the stands, the stage and so on. In short, it sums up in minutes how an event unfolded, and even how it was built (stage, stands, village, etc.).

Hyperlapse, for its part, is time-lapse's sibling. It also gives a view across an interval of time and space of what is happening at the festival. You can create short videos showing festival-goers arriving from different viewpoints. The feeling is the same, but a hyperlapse is not static: instead of a fixed camera, it is shot with the drone.

Current regulations

Flying a drone at a festival requires compliance with the regulations set by Spain's State Aviation Safety Agency (AESA). At Droneit, as audiovisual specialists in Barcelona, we comply with the rules and are up to date with, and adapted to, the European Regulation.

Being able to film from countless perspectives and from angles that would otherwise be impossible or out of reach comes down to the versatility of drones. You can contact us through the website: tell us your ideas and we will help with whatever you need.