so ive been flying for about a year now and my footage is... fine i guess? like technically its not blurry or anything but when i watch it back it just feels kind of random. like i land and im excited to check the footage and then i watch it and its like okay cool theres a building. moving on.

i think the problem is i dont really plan anything. i get to a location, i take off, i fly around doing whatever looks interesting in the moment and then i come home with like 40 clips that dont really go together at all. does anyone actually sit down and storyboard before a shoot or is that overkill for hobby stuff? or is there some middle ground where you at least have a rough shot list in your head before you even launch?

also wondering if this is partly an editing problem too. like maybe the shots are fine but i dont know how to make them flow. idk. would love to hear how more experienced people approach this because right now it feels like im just collecting footage rather than making something

honestly the biggest jump i made was forcing myself to pick ONE hero shot before i even unpack the drone. like decide what the main shot of the video is going to be, the one thing you absolutely need to get, and then everything else is supporting that. once you have an anchor everything else kind of falls into place because you start thinking about what leads into it and what you cut to after.

for the editing side ? if your clips dont flow its usually because theres no movement consistency. if one shot is moving left and you cut to something moving right it feels jarring. try to match your camera movement direction when you edit, or cut on a moment of stillness between two moving shots. takes a while to feel natural but once you see it you cant unsee it

im kind of in the same boat as you tbh so grain of salt here lol but what helped me a little was just watching the videos i liked and literally writing down what each shot was. like oh thats a reveal shot, oh thats a low orbit, whatever. just getting that vocabulary in my head so when im at a location i can think okay i want to do a reveal here instead of just flying around hoping something looks cool