Travel Filmmaking: A Professional's Insider Tips | Wedio

In terms of what you need to film such as a-roll or b-roll, it's really important when making a

cinematic travel video, a travel vlog that you do remember to do the a-roll. There's so much

focus now on b-roll and just how to make your shots look cool, but a-roll is super important.

Hey what's up guys my name is Thomas, and today we're going to be talking about travel

filmmaking. I got started out making videos in my garden when I was a teenager. The fact that

I could kind of make people feel emotions and make people be super enthralled in my videos

was just endless inspiration for oh wow what could I do next. From there I went to London,

and basically got involved in corporate videos. I decided to try and make a living with this.

I found myself becoming way more passionate about the trips that I was going on in between

these corporate jobs. I'd be going with friends to Croatia, you know saving up money, so I could

travel and going to all these amazing places and I'd always be bringing my camera gear with me.

And I started making these travel videos. And naturally putting them on YouTube, I got people

starting to comment saying: "Wow these travel videos look pretty awesome" they're not just

because I was a filmmaker obviously. They're not just the typical filming with the Gopro and having

a lot of shaky footage. They're actually kind of had a cinematic feel to them. And this was

back in the day when there weren't too many of these kind of videos out there on YouTube. And

so I started getting comments asking me for tips and tutorials and that's exactly what I did.

And from there with those travel videos and those tutorials I eventually grew my YouTube channel to

where it is now. And had the amazing opportunity to be able to work with brands all over the world.

I guess what differentiates travel filmmaking and travel cinematography in specific is not obviously

just the fact that it is in exotic locations, and the the filmmaker himself is travelling.

It has started to evolve and have certain aesthetic around it. I kind of see it as

as if all these different genres of filmmaking, as if there were genres of music. And so I kind

of see travel filmmaking as if it was for example electronic music. But within travel filmmaking,

there's loads of different styles of travel videos. And so I could kind of break them

down as if they were, one of them was like edm, another one was house, another one was dubstep,

another one was like chill low-fi beats, and so within travel filmmaking there are these

funnily enough often relating to different genres of electronic music but that's a side note.

There's often these different types of travel videos, so there might be one that is it's kind

of become known as the Sam Colder travel video. Which he kind of more or less pioneered along

with some other creatives from back in the day like J Alvarez. And other of these kind

of more like influencer travel filmmakers. And they would often involve big epic travel videos

with lots of backflips, lots of of these kind of extreme sports activities, often to like a really

emotive moving electronic pop kind of track. And it was all about the the lifestyle as well as the

cinematic ability. And that that's kind of become known as one specific genre.

And then there's other genres such as you can have these more kind of cultural immersive

videos. Some people call these flow filmmaking. That have become quite specific to travel videos

where you get people like Brandon Lee, doing these kind of videos. Which,

which is where they'll kind of try and take you on a more cultural journey, and they'll