Drone Cinematography for Brand & Wedding Work: Brussels Hybrid
Hybrid drone cinematography course for Belgian videographers. EASA Open Category and Belgian airspace prep, then one supervised flight day near Brussels.
Overview
Add legal, cinematic aerial coverage to your brand-film, wedding and real estate work. Self-paced EASA Open Category and Belgian airspace modules, then one supervised flight day at a partnered authorized site near Brussels.
This course is built for working videographers in Belgium who already deliver client work on the ground and want to add drone coverage that holds up next to the rest of the edit. It is not a licensing factory and it does not pretend to issue EASA certification, which can only be obtained through an officially recognized entity. What it does, plainly, is teach you how to operate inside the EASA Open Category and Belgian airspace rules with discipline, and how to shoot cinematic aerial footage that an editor actually wants to cut to. The self-paced portion takes you through the regulatory ground you cannot skip if you intend to fly commercially for paying clients in Belgium: subcategory rules for sub-250g and class-marked drones, registration as an operator with the BCAA, where you can and cannot launch in Brussels and across the Flemish and Walloon regions, how to read airspace using droneguide.be and skeyes NOTAMs, and the documentation you must carry on a brand shoot or wedding day if a police check happens. We are honest about the limits: this prepares you to study for and respect the rules, it does not replace the official A1/A3 or A2 online and theoretical exam paths. The cinematic craft modules are where Lubbad Production's actual delivery experience comes in. You learn a repeatable shotlist structure for three real client contexts, a Brussels brand film, a Belgian wedding venue reveal, and a real estate listing, covering reveal moves, parallax orbits, top-down geometric beats, dolly-ins on a subject, and the slow ascending pullback that almost always makes the final cut. We cover frame rates, codecs, color profile choices for matching ground-camera footage in DaVinci Resolve, ND filter selection for the Belgian overcast light, and the camera settings that make autofocus drones behave on a moving brand spokesperson or a bride walking out of a church. The single live flight day is capped at six learners. We meet at a partnered authorized open-category site in or near Brussels, fly under direct supervision, run the brand-shoot shotlist as a crew, and rehearse the ground-crew communication protocol, who calls airspace, who watches the subject, who watches the drone, what you say on radio when a person walks into frame. You leave the day with edit-ready footage from your own drone, downloaded to your laptop, and a feedback debrief. The closing module is about delivery: how to color-match aerial clips to your A-camera in Resolve, how to stabilize residual micro-jitter without making the footage look fake, what to put in your client deliverable contract about aerial coverage (insurance language, weather contingency, no-fly fallback), and a pricing reference for adding aerial as a line item on brand-film and wedding quotes in the Belgian market. You walk out with a published shotlist template you can reuse on every shoot, a Belgian airspace pre-flight checklist, a sample client-facing aerial coverage clause, and your own supervised flight footage cut into a short brand reel. The price is intentionally set to be self-funded by a working freelancer, not gated behind corporate approval.
Instructor
- Mohammed Lubbad
- Creative director and production mentor
- Duration: 4 hours self-paced regulatory + 1 live supervised flight day in Belgium
- Level: Intermediate
- Language: EN (FR/NL on request)
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FAQ
Does this course give me my EASA drone licence or certificate?
No, and we are direct about that. EASA certification (A1/A3 online, A2 theoretical) can only be issued through an officially recognised authority, in Belgium, via the BCAA-recognised channels. This course prepares you to study for those exams with confidence, and teaches you how to operate inside the rules with discipline, but it does not issue any certificate. We give you a course-completion confirmation from Lubbad Production noting the hours of regulatory preparation and supervised flight time, which you can attach to your professional portfolio.
What drone should I have before the live flight day?
A sub-250g drone like the DJI Mini 4 Pro or Mini 3 Pro is the recommended choice for commercial work in Belgium because it lets you fly in A1 conditions without an A2 certificate. A C1-marked drone also works. The drone must shoot 4K and offer a log or flat picture profile (D-Log M on DJI). You need at least 3 charged batteries, a V30 or faster 64GB SD card, and an ND filter set covering ND8/16/32 for typical Belgian light. If you do not own a drone yet, we send a ''what to buy in 2026'' note when you join the waitlist.
What if the weather is bad on the live flight day?
The field day runs in light rain and overcast, that is realistic Belgian shooting weather. We do not run in sustained strong wind (over 35 km/h at altitude), thunder, or heavy rain, because the supervised practice would be unsafe and the footage would be unusable. If the official forecast 48 hours before the date crosses our safety thresholds, we reschedule to a backup date communicated when you sign up. You do not lose your slot.
Can I take this course if my drone is heavier than 250g or class-marked higher than C1?
Yes, but you should know the course is built around the A1 sub-250g and C1 commercial use case because that is where most Belgian freelance aerial work happens. The regulatory modules cover A2 and A3 fully, so the framework transfers. The flight day at the partnered site is authorised for open-category use, so heavier drones are accommodated within the site''s permissions. If you fly a heavier industrial drone, contact us before joining so we confirm fit.
Is this for me if I am a complete beginner with no video experience?
Probably not. The course assumes you can already shoot and deliver paid video on the ground, you understand frame rates, exposure, lenses, and the edit timeline. The aerial craft modules build on that base. A complete beginner would benefit from a foundational videography course first; we are happy to recommend resources when you reach out.
How is the price set, and why is it self-paced plus one live day rather than fully live?
The price (a tailored proposal) is set so a working freelancer can self-fund it without corporate approval, and significantly below dry licensing-only classes because we add the cinematic craft, the client documents, and the supervised flight time. The hybrid format, self-paced regulatory modules plus one supervised flight day, lets us run more cohorts than a pure one-day live course while preserving the safety-supervised hands-on portion. The flight day is capped at six learners for supervision quality. Material costs (insurance for the field site, the venue partnership fee, your lunch) are included.