Chapter 6. Project 2: Making Travel and Vacation Movies


In this chapter, you'll learn how to make travel and vacation movies that bring home the sights, impressions, and fun of a trip. It covers technical basics and provides creative overviews that give you detailed information on how to get the best shots, capture moments you might not have considered shooting, and find online resources that can add lots of creative punch to your travel and vacation movies.

Learning how to use this information will help you make vacation and travel movies that let you relive your trip long after the suitcase is unpacked. You can make your adventures into movies that will bring back those memories.

Travel is an intrinsically interesting subject for a moviejust think of all the great on-theroad movies you've watched on the big screen. Off you go, new adventures awaitand who knows what you'll see and shoot?

Tip

Want to rent some great road movies for inspiration? Try the list of road movies from the University of California at Berkeley's website at www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/roadmovies.html#roadmovies. My favorite is Road Scholar (available online at www.amazon.com and www.moviesunlimited.com).


Finding your travel movie style is one of the best parts of making travel movies. Shooting and editing your own travel movie puts you and your creativity in the driver's seat. You don't have to buy all the travel movies in the national park store anymoreyou can make your own! You can make a personal video to enjoy long after the vacation is over.

The single biggest factor in making your travel movies a success is accessibility, so have your video camera handy. Keep your camcorder loaded with blank tape and charged batteries, so you can shoot at a moment's notice. When you're in a national park and a bear is crossing the road, you want to be able to pick up your camera and start shooting right away!

Remember, though, to protect your camerakeep it in your camera bag and don't store it in a hot car.




Create Your Own Digitial Movies
Create Your Own Digitial Movies
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Year: 2005
Pages: 85

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