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Frat Bros Are Lining Up to Have Their Parties Filmed By Drones

If your frat throws a sick outdoor party and there wasn't a drone around to film it, did it really happen?

If your frat throws a sick outdoor party and there wasn't a drone around to film it, did it really happen?

Increasingly, it's seemingly like the answer is no. After the video you see above made the rounds at BroBible and Total Frat Move, Jenner Jordan, the drone pilot behind it, began getting slammed with calls. The Ole Miss student has been in talks with frats at several different SEC schools and says he's thinking about hiring new pilots to begin filming frat parties nationwide.

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"We've had calls from Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, there's a few other ones—they're thinking about the pricing and if it makes sense," Jordan, owner of Skymasters Photography, told me.

The Ole Miss Woodstock wasn't the first bro blowout he filmed, but it was the largest (it includes, naturally, tons of neon and tie-dye, various people jumping into the pool, and, unfortunately, at least one Confederate flag). Prices vary depending on how difficult the shoot is, but the ones Jordan quoted me could be covered by charging an extra couple bucks for a red Solo cup.

"We've gotten a bunch of inquiries, we're doing the same thing for a bunch of different fraternities," he said. "We're in the process of getting a training camp going to train fliers to work in different states. Right now I only have two other fliers."

The company also does aerial real estate and wedding videos. He says he complies with the FAA's hobbyist regulations of not flying above 400 feet—but the agency certaintly wouldn't be as stoked as the frats are that he's doing this.

Jordan says that, of course, filming a party is more difficult than doing real estate photography, because he's got to make sure he doesn't crash into a crowd of hundreds of people, but says he has "at least 300 hours of flying" under his belt now. Let's hope he and anyone else who does this keeps flying safely.

The other two parties he's filmed are for internal frat bro viewing only, something to show the kids in a decade or two, perhaps.

"It's seeing the world from a different perspective," Jordan said.