5.2.3. Mission Planning

Once the hierarchy of events has been created, missions for leaf events (i.e., events with no more children) can be configured. Figure 6 shows an example. The event is the shooting of the last kilometer of the "Milano-Sanremo" cycling race. The mission is called "Finish in the sprint" and it will be executed in case of a sprint finish of the race. The crew enrolled in the mission includes four people: one director, two cameramen, and one production technician.

The mission configuration page also shows, if present, a list of SASs related to the mission. The user can either add new SASs or update existing ones by simply filling in a short web-form. For each SAS, the user can add one or more shooting actions, detailing through appropriate web forms what the drone formation will do during the live event and what each single drone will do as well. Three tabs, as shown in Figure 7, compose the shooting action configuration page. The first tab describes the main metadata of the shooting action, like the duration. The second tab allows the user to fill in information about the drone formation. This includes, for example, the RT trajectory on a map and the speed of the formation. The third tab collects specific information about each shooting role in the drone formation, such as the shooting parameters (e.g., drones' displacements), framing types (e.g., long shot, medium shot, close-up shot, etc.), and shooting target.


**Figure 6.** Example screenshot of the mission configuration page. The people and drone team involved can be specified.
