Hello! Today I'm gonna be looking at shooting cars with your GoPro camera
Adorama TV presents
Capture the Action with Martin Dorey.
Hello I'm Martin Dorey and you are watching Adorama TV. Today we're going to be
looking at car
mounting your GoPro camera and we're gonna be focusing on
two fantastic mounts. This one
the jaws flex mount and this one the suction mount.
Now with these two mounts and a couple of other standard mounts
you can get some really unusual angles from your GoPro camera
and that's what we're gonna do today but first let me introduce you to Rosie
my eye very compact and cute and cuddly
VW Polo. We're going to make it look like it’s in the movies.
Let's do it.
Okay, so look we've all seen hours and hours and hours of dash cam footage.
You know its easy enough to set up.
You get your standard mount.
Stick it on your dashboard,
put the camera on, turn it on and go.
Now if you wanted to do that, looping mode might be quite a good
mode to use for this because if anything good happens and it rarely does
press the button it'll save that file and we've talked about that before.
But today we have more interested in getting different angles and
for that we're going to start talking about the suction mount.
The suction mount comes with a
bag of goodies and that includes a 90-degree mount
and also an extension arm, various bits and pieces. So that you can mount the
camera
facing any way you want to and it will mount really well
on smoooooth and shiny surfaces, so
the body of the car and the windscreen is actually perfect.
Now sticking it using the suction mount is really,
really, really easy. What we do is place it on the surface you wanna suck it onto.
Release the lock, press the button.
Lock it on.
Hey presto, you've got a
really, really solid mount. To release it
very, very easy, unlock it and break the seal
an off it comes. It's as simple as that.
You can mount the suction cup just about anywhere on the car
so instead of using that same old angle looking at you or looking at the
road ahead,
you can find some interesting angles use your GoPro app to help you find them.
The GoPro has got such a wide angle that it's
really useful to get it close to objects to get the most
movement out of them. So I'm going to mount the camera somewhere really close to the
ground
so we can get a real sense of movement.
Are cars are reflective so obviously you can get some
really good reflections. I'm gonna try getting a selfie with
of the sky and the clouds. It should be really interesting but
please remember safety.
Now if you going to shoot with your car either use the remote,
turn your camera and off.
Or turn it on and off before you begin, or after you've
stopped. Don't use your camera when you're driving.
Now that's all great and I'm going to get some more footage, but first I want to show you
something else. Now that is the
Jaws Flex Mount. Now this mount is really useful. It's got a
clamp which is really strong
and so you can mount it just about anywhere. It would be really useful actually
for mounting to polls
or bars or bikes but for the car I can put it just about
anywhere I want. Now the gooseneck
part of the clamp is this section now this will come away from the clamp
and you could actually that on any other mount. So you could use it on a head mount,
chest mount, or mount it to a bike or absolutely anything. It's really
versatile
and the way that it works means that you can
get any kind of angle you want. It's really
easy and versatile.
Right look I love it, so let's go and
grab some shots. Just remember
do it safely okay?
OK, lot so these angles are great and with these two mounts you can get some
really exciting shots,
but who wants to watch five minutes
of one shot over and over again? Not me!
That's when we need to start thinking about editing and I'll be talking about
that in the next episode when we look at the
GoPro editing software. In the meantime
thanks for joining me on Adorama TV today don't forget you can go to the
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