A Tuna Show Inside an Art Gallery

The first one came together because of my friend Ray Bello, who has a habit of throwing opportunities my direction that I would never have dreamed up on my own. The pitch was simple and absurd: an FPV drone flight through an art gallery, built around a tuna performance.

I will save the full story for someone with time and a beer, but the point for any business owner reading this is the format. Galleries, retail spaces, restaurants, showrooms, and brand activations all share the same problem — a still photo can’t show the room, a static drone can’t get inside it, and a handheld walkthrough feels like a real estate listing. FPV interior tours in Nashville solve that. A single cinematic FPV pass can travel through a doorway, around a sculpture, between two people, and out a window without a cut.
If you run a venue or a brand activation and you want the space to feel like a place worth being in, this is the tool.

A Pink Floyd Laser Show Inside The Caverns

Tell ten-year-old me he is going to fly a drone in a cave, with lasers, for a living, and ten-year-old me loses his mind. The Caverns is in Pelham, Tennessee — Grundy County, at the base of the Cumberland Plateau, about an hour from Nashville and an hour from Chattanooga. The venue itself is one of the most distinctive in the country: a working underground music hall hosting concerts, comedy, and the Emmy-winning PBS series The Caverns Sessions.
The shoot was a Pink Floyd tribute laser show. Lasers, cave walls, an audience, and an FPV drone navigating all of it.

Indoor and underground FPV is its own discipline. Tight spaces, weird airflow, no GPS, and lighting that punishes any camera you point at it. Most “drone guys” cannot fly the shot. A trained FPV pilot with the right airframe and the right insurance can.
For event venues, concert promoters, and tour productions, this is the kind of footage that travels — the kind that gets reposted by the artist, the venue, and the brand sponsor without anyone needing to be asked.

If you are thinking about FPV drone work for a Nashville event venue, concert, or live show, the cave shoot is the case study.

The Intro to Brad Williams’s Comedy Special — Lexington, Kentucky

The third one was the intro to Brad Williams’s comedy special, shot in Lexington, Kentucky. Brad’s review afterward is still one of my favorite quotes I have ever gotten for the business: do not tell me how much I’m paying you, but it is worth it.
What made this one work was the trust. The crew gave me room to try things, and the result was iconic — exactly the kind of cold-open energy a comedy special needs to hook a viewer in the first ten seconds.

That principle travels. If you run a video production company in Nashville, or you’re a marketing agency producing branded content, what you actually need from a drone operator is not “a guy with a Mavic.” You need a pilot who can pitch a shot in the pre-production meeting, fly it on the day, and hand you footage that grades into the rest of your edit without a fight.

That is the lane I am built for. Drone services for video production companies in Nashville is one of the most under-served segments in this market, and it is exactly where FPV does its best work — cold opens, transitions, action establishers, and the impossible one-take walk-through that makes a director look like a magician.

Connor Price in Concert — The Cannery, Nashville

The fourth one is the one I tried hardest for and honestly did not think would happen. Connor Price has been my favorite artist for years and a long-standing inspiration for building something of my own rather than running on default settings. Getting to fly his live set in Nashville — at the Cannery, alongside Breanna Price and Nic D — is still the height of my career so far.

Live concert FPV is a specific skill set: capturing the artist, the crowd, the lighting rig, and the energy in one continuous take that a stationary camera physically cannot replicate. It is also one of the highest-leverage uses of FPV for a music venue or a touring artist, because the footage is built to share — vertical-friendly, motion-heavy, and short enough to live natively on Reels, TikTok, and Shorts without re-editing.

For Nashville venues, tour managers, and music marketing teams: this is the work I want more of.

What These Four Shoots Have in Common

These projects look unrelated on the surface — an art gallery, a cave, a comedy special, a hip-hop concert. They are not.
Every one of them was a space where a traditional drone, a gimbal, or a Steadicam would have failed, and where a trained FPV pilot turned the constraint into the most memorable footage of the project. That is the actual offer:

• FPV interior tours for venues, galleries, restaurants, retail, and brand spaces
• Cinematic FPV action shots for live events, concerts, and shows
• Custom FPV drone work for marketing campaigns, branded content, and product launches
• Drone services for video production companies that need a pilot who can integrate with an existing crew and edit pipeline

Flyby Video is a single-member operation based in Nashville, Part 107 certified, with an aviation-grade liability policy that covers the kinds of jobs most general business policies will not. That last part matters more than it sounds — a lot of venues, production companies, and brand clients now require certificate-of-insurance language that a general drone endorsement cannot satisfy.

Want to Talk About Your Project?

If you are a Nashville business, a venue, a marketing agency, or a video production company sitting on a project that would be a great FPV shot if you could just find the right pilot — that is the conversation.

Get in touch with Flyby Video and let’s talk about what we can make.

Flyby Video is a Nashville-based FPV drone production company serving clients across Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, and beyond. Daniel Magee is a Part 107 certified commercial drone pilot specializing in cinematic FPV interior tours, live event capture, and custom drone work for brands and video production companies.