I Heart Drones: research by David Beesley

Research at RMIT – David Beesley | RMIT University

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VISUAL: Research at RMIT. I Heart Drones: David Beesley explores using a drone to make a documentary about people using drones. RMIT University logo.

VISUAL: Camera pans around a drone with six arms with rotors on the end of each arm. The drone is on the floor of an office and David Beesley is squatting beside it (his head is off?screen).

David Beesley: There's a lot of talk recently about how ...

VISUAL: Close up of a smaller drone with four rotors, each rotor is protected by a metal ring. The drone has pieces of yellow fluorescent sticky tape on parts of it as well as one pink tape. The drone is on a desk in an office and David Beesley’s elbow is leaning on the edge of the desk.

David Beesley: ... they're revolutionary, disruptive ...

VISUAL: Close up of David Beesley looking down at the drone on the desk which is off?screen.

David Beesley: ... transformative ...

VISUAL: Close up of David Beesley’s hand as he spins a rotor of the six?armed drone on the office floor (as seen earlier in the video).

David Beesley: ... bigger than the internet. So I thought ...

VISUAL: Camera is above the drone sitting on the floor and moves up and away from the top of the six?armed drone. David and another person’s shoes can be seen standing beside the drone.

David Beesley: ... I will explore the revolutionary potential of these things ...

VISUAL: David Beesley, Higher Degree by Research (School of Media and Communications) speaking to the camera.

David Beesley: ... by way of making a documentary using drones to document ...

VISUAL: Video of four?rotor drone, as seen earlier in video, hovering up and down in the office. A person is working at a desk in the background.

David Beesley: ... people using drones.

VISUAL: Video of four?rotor drone hovering and moving sideways in the office. David Beesley is in the background watching the drone and he is holding a tablet which is the remote control device for the drone.

David Beesley: My research I'm calling Head in the Clouds ...

VISUAL: Video of four?rotor drone flying around the main courtyard for RMIT Building 11 (Old Melbourne Gaol).

David Beesley: ... and it's looking at prototyping proof of concept on and how, as a single practitioner, you can actually ...

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley walking along a corridor of RMIT.

David Beesley: ... get out there and record your news stories, get your piece to camera ...

VISUAL: David Beesley speaking to the camera.

David Beesley: ... your overlay, all from the one platform.

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley standing in the main courtyard of RMIT Building 11 (Old Melbourne Gaol) watching the four?rotor drone flying around the main courtyard. The camera pans around and behind David and in the background you can see the old buildings surrounding the courtyard for Building 11.

David Beesley: So the genie is out of the bottle; and what are people doing with these things and how is the general public reacting to it?

VISUAL: David Beesley speaking to the camera and holding his hand up in a fist as he says I Heart Drone.

David Beesley: My self?confessed bias is I Heart Drone.

VISUAL: David Beesley standing in the courtyard of Building 11 with his back to the camera watching the drone hover down past his head.

David Beesley: RMIT is very open and supportive ...

VISUAL: David Beesley speaking to the camera.

David Beesley: ... of explorations into ...

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley carrying the four?rotor drone as he walks down an internal staircase; the camera is following behind him. As he descends the internal staircase he passes two males as they are walking up the stairs.

David Beesley: ... new and emerging technologies, particularly for the ...

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley carrying the four?rotor drone as he walks through an open glass doorway in a corridor and further down the corridor; the camera is following behind him.

David Beesley: ... communication sector. People, here, are open?minded ...

VISUAL: David Beesley speaking to the camera.

David Beesley: ... situated on the bleeding edge of research ...

VISUAL: Video of the four?rotor drone flying around the main courtyard of RMIT Building 11; the tops of the Old Melbourne Gaol buildings can be seen in the background.

David Beesley: ... so that's a very supportive and encouraging environment.

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley standing in the courtyard holding the remote control device with his back to the camera and the four?rotor drone flying around the courtyard of Building 11. The camera moves around the back of David following the flying drone.

David Beesley: These are equipped with cameras. You can hook them up to ...

VISUAL: David Beesley speaking to the camera.

David Beesley: ... Oculus Rift?type immersive displays so you really do feel like you're ...

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley standing in the courtyard holding the remote control device with his back to the camera and the four rotor drone flying around the courtyard of Building 11. The camera moves around the back of David following the flying drone.

David Beesley: ... in the drone flying. The beauty of drones ...

VISUAL: Close up of David Beesley standing in the office watching and controlling the hovering four?rotor drone which is in the foreground.

David Beesley: ... and I found it really quite exhilarating, it's as ..

VISUAL: David Beesley speaking to the camera.

David Beesley: ... close as you can get to actually flying without your feet ...

VISUAL: Video of David Beesley standing in the courtyard holding the remote control device with his back to the camera and the four?rotor drone flying around the courtyard of Building 11. The camera moves around the back of David following the flying drone. There is also a cherry blossom tree in flower at the centre of the courtyard.

David Beesley: ... leaving the ground.

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