Job finalised in Norway for Far From Standard — nice to see the result soon. Safe flight home.
Some jobs are a single discipline; plenty are two at once. This one in Norway paired aerial cinematography with interview coverage for the production company Far From Standard and their client — landscape from the air, story on the ground.
A short field note from the wrap, before the flight home to the US.
The sky and the sit-down
Norway gives an aerial unit a lot to work with — coastline, water and dramatic terrain that reads beautifully from the air and sets the scene for whatever the film is really about. Aerials carry the 'where'; they place the audience before a word is spoken.
The interview is the other half. Pairing aerial and interview coverage in one crew keeps a small production nimble: the same team that flies the establishing shots also lights and shoots the conversation that anchors the piece, so the location and the story are captured in one trip rather than two.
Travelling light, flying compliant
Cross-border shoots come down to logistics — moving kit cleanly, knowing the local rules, and being ready to fly the moment the weather opens up. We plan the airspace and the travel so the shoot days are about the work, not the paperwork.
Then it's a case away, batteries down, and a flight home — with the edit already taking shape in your head.
Frequently asked
- Do you travel internationally for shoots?
- Yes. We work across Scandinavia, Europe and the US and travel worldwide for productions, with offices in Greater Miami and the Stockholm area. We handle the kit logistics, local airspace and permits as part of the job.
- Can one crew cover both aerials and interviews?
- Yes. For lean productions we can cover aerial cinematography and ground-based interview work with one crew — capturing the location from the air and the story on the ground in a single trip.
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