Abstract: The object of the invention is an autonomous piloting method, by means of a base station, for a rotary-wing drone with multiple rotors, for controlling the drone in attitude and in velocity following a selected camera movement and a position of the subject to be filmed. The method comprises the following steps: 1. Selection by the user of a camera movement (6) defined by a set of parameters comprising: image shooting mode in a fixed or moving point (7); type of a movement in attitudes relative to the subject to be filmed (8); displacement velocity; displacement directions or axes; direction of the displacement (10); image shooting altitudes (9); 2. Generation of commands for positions (15) through which the drone will have to pass, from the said set of parameters (12) and from the instantaneous position of the subject to be filmed (13) as well as from its recent trajectory (14); 3.