Summary

Shooting travel movies makes your great adventures last longer; with these movies, you can enjoy reliving your travels when back at home. Shooting travel movies also trains your eye, as you learn to see things differently, and it provides a natural way to interact more with the people you meet and the places you go.

In this chapter, you've gotten a detailed overview of how to make travel movies that can truly captivate an audience, using shot lists with many suggestions for interesting material to shoot along the way.

Using the steps outlined in this chapter should help you avoid the most common mistakes in vacation movies:

• Boring static shots (because you learned how to shoot action and a mix of shots to build sequences from)
  
  
• Movies without interesting characters (because you've shot peopleand perhaps foodalong the way)
  
  
• Rambling edits that are unfocused (because you've learned how to apply several organizing principles to help structure your movie)
  
  

This chapter also provides online resources to help you find inspiring road or travel movies to watch, song titles and sites to help you find the perfect music, and ways to integrate animated maps into your movie that will make your finished movies fun to watch.

Using these techniques and resources can give you all you need to know to making travel movies that bring to the screen the amazing adventures you take. Now take this learning along with you every time you make a travel or vacation movie!