Abstract
Steen L. Christiansen writes his book Drone Age Cinema (2017), “Contemporary cinema is entering the drone age…What will cinema be in the drone age?”. A very economical alternative way of capturing aerial shots for (low budget) documentaries, prosumer drones became available in Turkey and globally in 2015 and were quickly integrated into documentary film production. Before the emergence of prosumer drones, aerial shots were a luxury unaffordable for all but a few high-budget documentary film productions. Drones created a threshold in Turkish documentaries: gaze (exploration of geography-nature-life-people) from above, a Renaissance of the aerial shot. In this presentation / paper I will discuss the response to this new way of seeing in Turkish documentary cinema, and the ways in which drone shots have changed the cultural and technological environment of Turkish documentary cinema.
Highlights
Contemporary cinema is entering the drone age
The first is the inevitable integration of drones into film production
What will cinema be in the drone age? And more urgently, what will cinema be able to do our senses (Chirstiansen 2017, 1)?
Summary
Contemporary cinema is entering the drone age. There are two entry points. In 2014 a very affordable new aerial shooting device emerged and quickly became very popular. These new aerial shooting devices, drones, quickly became a vital tool for documentary filmmakers. The photographs and videos that we create are no longer constricted by human limitations The introduction of these exciting new tools enable us to redefine contemporary imagery by giving individuals the opportunity to appreciate the breadth and scale of their world. With this incredible technology, our creative minds can take flight (Guttman 2017, introduction)
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