Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography right here,
on AdoramaTV
I'm Mark Wallace and I'm shooting
an episode this week totally on
the GoPro Hero 5.
Now why is that?
I'm doing this because
when I made the video
on better vlogging
people asked me
how did I get my video
of crossing the borders in Central America
and some of those places
where maybe you can't get a camera
and you can't bring a tripod
and those types of things.
Well what you can do
is you can do something
called “Guerilla filmmaking”.
It's really just a
term for sneaking in
and taking videos
in places that maybe you can't
normally do that like here,
in the central train station
of Munich Germany,
so you can't bring tripods
and all that kind of stuff
into this place,
but you can bring a GoPro
and bring in small equipment
and so that's what we're going to do today.
I'm going to show you my bag
and show you how
I make better videos
using small gear
so let's get started.
Right now.
Now one of the most important things
for doing this type of film making
is to travel light,
I mean really light.
You don't want to have a lot of cameras,
a lot of bags
that kind of stuff.
You don't want to stand out
and so I've got some,
a little tiny bag.
It has all the stuff that I need
to create videos for my vlog
and it's right in this bag,
right here.
Well let's talk about
my “Guerilla filmmaking” bag
my little tool kit here
and then how I use it,
to create a better story
in the locations that I visit,
so the key thing
here is this bag.
It’s made by Tenba
but it doesn't look like
a camera bag, really.
Again make sure you look on the
description of this video for links
to all the gear I'm talking about,
that way you can just click on that
and go straight to Adorama
and get this for yourself.
So inside this bag here
I’ve got my very small
Leica M camera
and lenses,
so this could be
your mirror-less camera,
a point-and-shoot camera,
whatever you want to use,
to shoot your stills with.
You can throw them in there
then I also carry a GoPro
so this is a GoPro Hero 5.
I usually only have one of these
in my bag, but right now
I've got two,
I've got the one that we're shooting
with right now
and the one that's in the bag
just so I can show you,
sort of how that works.
The other thing that
I'm using is
an external microphone
so I can have
clean audio
and then last and maybe the most
important piece of equipment
is something that you can't see
right now and that is,
my Cullmann tiny travel tripod,
now I use that in several ways,
I can use it as I'm using it right now,
to hold my GoPro,
I also use that as an extension
to hold my GoPro
for selfies basically,
it's like a tiny selfie stick
but for video
that's how I did the introduction
to this video and then also
I can use that on my camera
to do really
slow shutter speed shots
or if I want to do time-lapse videos,
I can use that as well
and it's really inexpensive.
It's one of the most important things
you can buy
if you're doing travel photography
or vlogging,
a very small travel tripod.
All right, well it's not enough
just to have all of this gear.
You need to use
this gear in a way
that tells a more
compelling story.
Now I like to do that
in several ways.
The first way is I like
to get some establishing shots,
so instead of just saying
hey I'm at the Central Station
in Munich Germany
I can say I'm at the Central Station
in Munich Germany
and show all the different things.
I can show the people moving about.
I can show the trains coming
and going.
I can shoot stills to show
the trains and the people
rushing to get to the platforms
on time,
and all that stuff
so I'm just capturing the essence
of the location.
The second thing I like to do
if I have a place that's really
busy like this,
is to set up my GoPro
and shoot time-lapse videos
then I can set
that to music using
GoPro software called Quik.
It comes with a GoPro
and then I can throw that into my video.
That sort of helps us out
and then also
I like to walk about and give some
narration and talk about
what I'm seeing
just by holding my GoPro
and talking about things.
Take a look at this train
as it goes by.
Cool huh!
So enough of me talking about how this
works let me show you how I would do
this here's a final edit for me visiting
the Central Station
here in Munich Germany.
Hey I'm in Munich, Germany
It's pretty awesome.
I'm in the central train station.
This is a pretty cool place so
let me show you around.
We're going to miss the train.
Well that's all there is to it.
A small bag, some small cameras,
an external mic
and you can do some “guerrilla filmmaking”
just like that.
It will make your travel
videos and your vlogs
a lot better.
Well thanks so much for joining me
for this episode of Exploring Photography.
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