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Drone Regulations: What You Need to Know

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Drone package
An $11K drone package

Drones create fun, sticky, sharable, and useful content. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying cameras have so many indoor and outdoor applications for DMOs:

  • Convention, facility, meeting space fly-through views
  • General destination marketing and tourism promotion
  • Website design
  • Collaboration for UGC purposes

Everybody’s onboard with enabling visitors to enjoy previously unimaginable points of view from a bird’s eye position.

If you get requests from drone owners, have a drone, or want to buy one, be sure know the FAA rules and regulations, including prohibited spaces such as National Parks, airports, and stadiums.

For FAA and state-by-state regulations, click here. For PC Magazine’s popular article covering the basics, click here.

 

eTourism SummitP.S. And speaking of video, have you signed up for the October 9th workshop at eTourism Summit? The streets of San Francisco is your production set in a real-time, hands-on session led by experts. Click to find details and registration for: Create: Smartphone Video Storytelling for Instagram TV.

 

 

Love Haight: Hands-On Smartphone Video Workshop Returns to Haight-Ashbury

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Pick a ‘hood. Make a movie. San Francisco is your sandbox.

In 2017, Haight-Ashbury was one of several San Francisco neighborhoods featured in a same-day production destination video hands-on workshop.

The Haight will again be one of the city ‘hoods for 2018 (plus places like Chinatown, the Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, and the Mission District) when amateur teams take it from scratch to make destination videos in under six hours using only smartphones and an iMovie program for laptop editing:

  • The Budget: $0.00
  • The Team:  x4, chosen at random
  • The Mentor: Ryan Thompson, Founder & CEO, Odyssey (Make Stories Human)

On Oct. 9, 2018, we’re offering the Smartphone Video Workshop as a Pre-Conference Day option at the 19th Annual eTourism Summit on Oct. 10-11, 2018. Professional editors and industry leaders will assist each group. Spaces are limited to 24, so register now.

You’ll take home video making skills that make you a zero-budget-hero.

Read our interview with Jessica Blank, Marketing Manager at One Liberty Observation Deck in Philly, who was a 2017 video production team member, and see the team’s terrific result, a 68-second Haight-Ashbury video here.

 

CREATE: Popular Smartphone Video Storytelling Workshop at eTourism Summit

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Can you tell the story of Fisherman’s Wharf in a minute-long video? Or Haight-Ashbury? Or the Golden Gate Bridge? You’ll learn the skills to take back home.

Back by popular demand, the Pre-Conference Day at eTourism Summit features a full-day workshop option called CREATE: A Smartphone Video Storytelling Workshop.

Related: “LOOK! You Can Make Videos on the Cheap in No Time,” (The Travel Vertical, December 13, 2017).

This hands-on workshop is ideal for DIYers and budget-minded DMOs. You’ll use San Francisco as a subject. Teams of four are dropped off at iconic locations in the city to plan, shoot, then edit their raw footage into a one-minute video. (This year, we’re using industry leaders and professional editors.)

Lobster! Dungeness crab! Sea lions! Fisherman’s Wharf! Here’s a 75-second video result—complete with audio—that was produced as a destination video at the workshop last year.

Register early for the eTS smartphone Video Storytelling Workshop. It is limited to 24 participants at a fee of $495 for eTourism Summit conference registrants and $795 for non-eTourism Summit conference registrants. Click here to register.

 

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