I usually don't bother posting war videos cause I'd flood the damn place but I think these two videos are probably some of the best quadcopter war footage I've ever seen.
Trying a little hard with the filters and editing, but yeah judge for yourself.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q60yBQG8XI[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c5SzVA_EbQ[/media]
A really weird way to portray war and people dieing.
If someone had shown me some of those city flyovers and told me it was a trailer for a new fallout spinoff in the middle east I'd believe them in a heartbeat.
It is so strange to see how bad it has gotten and it being presented in such a casual fashion.
God damn those places are fucked up. It almost feels like the first video has like "Explosion and other cool war shit" fashion, like that it would be more for the war than against it.
[QUOTE=Nastardo;48945231]God damn those places are fucked up. It almost feels like the first video has like "Explosion and other cool war shit" fashion, like that it would be more for the war than against it.[/QUOTE]
Well as a Russian reporter supporting the Syrian regime it's sort of implied he's rooting for them. "For" the war.
This shits pretty cool.
[QUOTE=Nastardo;48945231]like that it would be more for the war than against it.[/QUOTE]
It's neither "for" nor "against" anything, it's just excess stuff and leftovers from footage supplied to TV networks. It's quite common for our war reporter teams to compile those leftovers and create something like that, you can find some from Georgia, Libya, Ukraine and other recent-ish conflicts. I bet there're more on Syria alone, not exactly like these ones, but close.
Now that our airforce is involved, these compilations get more attention and are created by the media agencies themselves, evident by the watermarks and labels. I won't be surprised if they appear on TV even.
Had to find the song in the second video so I might as well share it here:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCexGqc3qrY[/media]
@1:10 or something
This is pretty strange. Imagine you are fighting every day for your life against soldiers, tanks... Just hell. Then suddenly you start noticing these drones recording you and your struggle.
I know these are pretty small and way up in the sky but it's like something out of sci-fi movie.
[QUOTE=gudman;48946404]It's neither "for" nor "against" anything, it's just excess stuff and leftovers from footage supplied to TV networks. It's quite common for our war reporter teams to compile those leftovers and create something like that, you can find some from Georgia, Libya, Ukraine and other recent-ish conflicts. I bet there're more on Syria alone, not exactly like these ones, but close.
Now that our airforce is involved, these compilations get more attention and are created by the media agencies themselves, evident by the watermarks and labels. I won't be surprised if they appear on TV even.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, we have a similar thing here to an extent. Agencies and individuals collect a ton of visual records of conflict, and it really boils down to who's willing to publish it and when. I guess the Russians are less keen to withhold it, though; things like 90's combat footage mostly surfaces after the conflict is over, and mostly because it's less compromising that way.
[QUOTE=Marden;48946517]This is pretty strange. Imagine you are fighting every day for your life against soldiers, tanks... Just hell. Then suddenly you start noticing these drones recording you and your struggle.
I know these are pretty small and way up in the sky but it's like something out of sci-fi movie.[/QUOTE]
I think you'd be more worried about dying than thinking about how its like a movie because a tiny helicopter is in the sky
Those shots of Jobar at 2:23 make it look like the future scenes from Terminator if they were less blue, jesus fucking christ.
[QUOTE=croguy;48946524] I guess the Russians are less keen to withhold it, though;[/QUOTE]
Yeah, well, what's there to withhold? It's not our shit, unless that's Ukraine, but even there - it's [i]OFFICIALLY[/i] not our shit. And due to the specifics of this kind of footage, - it's quite perishable, - reporters are left with huge chunks on their hands, stuff that just isn't going anywhere; so they either establish a youtube channel in coop with their media agency, sell it to minor foreign media outlets (mainly if they are freelance, but some professionals are known to do that too). It's also common to sell it on stock sites, so you'll eventually see this footage in a movie or a video game.
Plus I'm guessing it helps that some of our bigger media has this policy regarding footage from war zones - some of the stuff that won't be directly used is left to the reporters, so they can do whatever they see fit. That gives the reporters some incentive to do their job properly, with some much needed initiative and, dare I say it, creativity. It's quite smart.
That was uncomfortable.
The first video is especially depressing, it's this collage of the worst humanity has to offer (the footage) and the best humanity has to offer (the samples in the music).
[QUOTE=Dubeard;48946287]This shits pretty cool.[/QUOTE]
Look at the video while listening to some sad fiddle music or some shit then, I'm sure your disgustingly simple comprehension ability will be melted away considering how NOT cool this shit is.
[QUOTE=dannass;48948489]Look at the video while listening to some sad fiddle music or some shit then, I'm sure your disgustingly simple comprehension ability will be melted away considering how NOT cool this shit is.[/QUOTE]
lol calm down felicia
1:26 in the second video is pretty fucking insane. You don't often see both the jet doing the bombing and the actual explosion in the same shot.
[QUOTE=dannass;48948489]Look at the video while listening to some sad fiddle music or some shit then, I'm sure your disgustingly simple comprehension ability will be melted away considering how NOT cool this shit is.[/QUOTE]
pretty sure hes commenting on the way it was filmed, the effect the cannons/bombs/tanks/explosions make, the camera work behind it and reversing it, not saying that killing people and destroying stuff is cool.
you don't need to blow a gasket over it haha
The thing is this quadcopter isn't even 400 feet in some of the shots, if you saw it, it would be easily visible and loud enough to hear if your not next to motor fire.
war journalism is so incredibly stressful, the ability to get dynamic elevated footage without putting yourself and others at risk going up in a helicopter with a camera is a goddamn wet dream come true for journos everywhere
the footage is edited well but it's pretty clear he's putting it up like that (with watermarks) to draw interest for outlets to buy his raw clips. Smart and simple
[QUOTE=dannass;48948489]Look at the video while listening to some sad fiddle music or some shit then, I'm sure your disgustingly simple comprehension ability will be melted away considering how NOT cool this shit is.[/QUOTE]
Oh my, someone is offended call the presses
[QUOTE=J!NX;48946545]I think you'd be more worried about dying than thinking about how its like a movie because a tiny helicopter is in the sky[/QUOTE]
No, no. You get me wrong. You're in hell and then you realize someone is watching and recording all of it from the safety behind a monitor with their drone. You might feel like someone considers you a goddamn entertainment.
I understand these videos are for documentary reasons but the music choice is strange.
Intro to the first video looks so unbelieveably videogamey, with that music and such :v:
The armor/artillery video was beautiful, but it's kinda damaged by the reverse gimmick.
Yeah, the videos could be way better without any editing\music and those HUGE watermarks. I really liked the smoothness of the camera work, which is untypical for drone videos.
[QUOTE=Marden;48951040]No, no. You get me wrong. You're in hell and then you realize someone is watching and recording all of it from the safety behind a monitor with their drone. You might feel like someone considers you a goddamn entertainment.
I understand these videos are for documentary reasons but the music choice is strange.[/QUOTE]
I think you'd be more worried that the person recording you is INSANE and WANTS TO MURDER YOU and that there is a bomb on it
I would shoot it down thusly, and then barbaricly smash it with a hammer and scream like a giant monkey to tell the alpha male of the enemy "FUCK YOU NIGGA STAY AWAY"
[sp]I'm just kidding I get you now[/sp]
[QUOTE=damnatus;48951589]Intro to the first video looks so unbelieveably videogamey, with that music and such :v:[/QUOTE]
I guess it'd look video gamey to really anyone whose played a post-apoc.
very little people have actually seen anything like this outside of countries that are active war-zones. It looks like some mapper just through a bunch of shit together and then called it a day. Just a ton of empty torn buildings with rock-trash.
It's pretty blasé for war footage, but then I'm just a western european cyka. Can't say it's not impressive though.
[QUOTE=antianan;48951721]Yeah, the videos could be way better without any editing\music [B]and those HUGE watermarks[/B][/QUOTE]
yeah he should just give out all the footage he's risking his life to record in a way that news outlets can yoink snippets with ease
[QUOTE=dai;48952074]yeah he should just give out all the footage he's risking his life to record in a way that news outlets can yoink snippets with ease[/QUOTE]
I meant he could've made them a bit smaller, and maybe it's not a good idea to put them right in the center of the video.
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