How This Drone Is Used for Adult Movies

All potential bad and distasteful threesome jokes aside ("What do you get when you mix porn, 4K, and a drone blah blah blah?"), there now exists an aerial pornographic video called Drone Boning. Shot on Panasonic GH4 mounted to a DJI Spreading Wings S1000 (…oy), this video is the work of two directors from Ghost Cow Films, Brandon LaGanke and John Carlucci, and it seems to be about a lot more than just sex.

Check out Drone Boning below, and, of course, this is 100% for adults only and absolutely NSFW:

At first glance, Drone Boningsounds like a cheeky experiment with drones and people, well, boning (or quite possibly drones boning), but I find that there's quite a lot to say about its content and cinematography. It offers an interesting juxtaposition of these beautiful vistas -- sprawling fields, lush greenery, majestic sunsets -- with two (or three) naked individuals getting down from far away -- very far away. In fact, it seems as though the focus of the camera is more on the scenery than on the actors doing something that would get anybody's attention, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what most pornographic videos and films shoot for. Not saying that some pornography isn't artistic and beautiful, because some of it is, but this is artistic pornography with more of an emphasis on the beauty that surrounds the actors. Or as Filmmaker Magazine perfectly described it: " -- the eerie glide of the drone and the camera’s distance from these writhing lovers make them more like elements in a video art piece than reflections of desire."

Another huge factor in this video is voyeurism, which is certainly a popular concept in porn, but the way it's depicted in Drone Boning (I will never get tired of saying those two words) is interesting in that we're not taking on the roll of the human voyeur -- the person peeking through the window to watch the show. Instead, we take on this strange point of view of a mechanical drone that is just passing through, high above the actors (most of the time), capturing the act though not focusing and zooming in on it. Really -- it's not voyeurism that unlocks your door and creeps through your home to witness your most private moments. It's voyeurism that is omnipresent. It's voyeurism that ends all privacy.

Credit: Drone Boning Behind the Scenes

But what do the filmmakers say about what they made? Are these concepts intentional? Were the filmmakers making a statement about voyeurism/pornography/cinematography, or were they just trying to see what an aerial porn would look like? Filmmaker Magazine interviewed directors Brandon LaGanke and John Carlucci about where the concept came from. LaGanke says:

I was shooting a commercial gig in Wyoming. I was working with drones and as I was shooting a 90 degree, top-down, angle, I thought to myself, wouldn’t this be hilarious to have, in every shot, a couple fucking below. Sort of a moving-image, “Where’s Waldo” thing. As I started telling people the idea, jokingly at first, people had the same reaction to it: privacy, drone strikes, invasion, etc. So, I brought the idea to John Carlucci, my directing partner at Ghost Cow Films and we formed the idea into a voyeuristic experience, ending in a humorous commentary on invasion of privacy. The thought here was, let’s tell people that when it comes to drones, “Make Porn, Not War.”

Credit: Drone Boning Behind the Scenes

Regardless of what your thoughts and opinions are on pornography, this "deeply weird and oddly hypnotic" video is more than just two paid actors having sex -- even if it doesn't mean to be. It comedically speaks to our concerns of personal privacy by saying, "Drones. You might as well be shtupping on a hilltop."

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