I don't know your budget, or your feeling for being risk adverse, but I would strongly suggest hiring someone liscensed with at least 300 hours of flying a drone before I'd go out and shoot with it in a commercial setting.
I know, I know, everyone's doing it, everyone's playing with them, but there is a difference between some kid crashing a go pro in a backyard, vs. working commercially and a drone getting loose on Pac 1 hitting a minivan full of tourists.
It's up to you and I fully understand the economic pressure that is being applied in our industry, but then again, no client is going to step up is something goes wrong, you'll be on your own.
Look I've done it, not with drones, but I've hung out of and on cars, cycles, skateboards, buildings, cranes, windows, helicopters to get a shot but the risk was generally 95% to myself and no one else, so if it went south, I'd be the one with the bumps not someone 400 yards away.
It's up to you, I truly understand where your coming from, but if you've worked the Southland for long, you know there is a rule, permit, fine and jurisdiction specific regulation(s) waiting around every corner.
That is one of the reasons so much film production has exited the state, though in the case of drones I'd say safety first.
IMO
BC