How to film bushcraft, survival, camping & outdoor videos
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- For those who want to start filming youtube videos or those who already do and would like a few tips and pointers, here is my rundown of hot to film outdoor videos.
I worked in film production for 10 years and you just broke it down in a few minutes. Nice! The "Alone" folks taught you well. You've inspired me to up my game and get some decent equipment. Thanks, I've saved this video. Cheers!
Right on. Thanks
This was super helpful. Thank you. I just finished my first video. It wasn’t perfect, but I’m proud of it.
Good luck on your channel. I hope it does well
Home run, Mr. Whipple! Very much appreciate these tips :) Thanks a bunch ... God Bless!
Thanks Dave
Hello Dave, thank you for sharing the helpful information. You always do a great job in presenting the information. Great pointers my friend. Always take care, be safe and have fun. 🤗
Thanks Ronald.
Thanks for all the tips! I’ll be watching this more than once.
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This is pure gold. Thanks a ton!
Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@Bushradical so in order to have a successful RUclips channel do you have to pay RUclips money to be able to have access to your RUclips channel in ways that a regular RUclips channel doesn't??? And also you have any RUclips channel management hacks that you have learned along the way???
Bravo on all counts. Planning to start my journey and you helped immensely!
Awesome !!!
THIS is EXACTLY what I have been looking for! Thanks Brother
Wow, super informative. Thanks for making this video Dave. There is so much I'd have never known. Keeping this in my saved videos!
Thanks Linda
Thank you, Dave! Excellent tips and tutorial. I've been trying them out as I get started. Much appreciative for this one and ALL your content.
Wow , this vid was SO loaded with valuable and useful information ! Loved how you used the actual filming techniques that you were talking about at each point to give example of and reinforce what you were explaining . Thanks , Dave , for your willingness to pass down to your viewers what you have learned . With all the great stuff you have taught us over the years , I think I may have to open up a new and separate Bookmark Bar category on my laptop entitled something like " Dave Whipple's Awesome How-To Vids " (;-) . P.S. - Still smiling over that fun family vid of you guys that Brooke just did ! Thanks to you both for all the joy you bring into other's lives . All God's very best to you and your family :)
Thanks North Woods Rat, I appreciate it.
This is a phenomenal explanation! Thank you so much for the time you took to share all of this information with us
Great video, very helpful and informative. Just what I was looking for. Good lighting and multiple angles is really good advice to help bring the viewer into the outdoor experience with you so to speak.
Thanks for this 👍
Your videos are by far the best teaching on survival that I have seen on the internet. Great !!! Keep making and I will keep watching and learning. THANKS !!!
Thanks Bradford, I appreciate the compliment!
Great video. Very informative. Lotta things I’d never thought about and I appreciate that u incorporated most of them in this video. Same shot different angle etc.
I just started my new RUclips channel and I found your video very helpful! Thank you very much sir!
As a.teacher, I started a Photography class to meet graduation requirements for students who didn’t fit with the traditional art program. I have always liked photography, but had to learn on the fly to stay ahead of my students. Thanks for sharing your experiences and insights, it is extremely helpful, especially since I now know why some of my material did not come out exactly as I had hoped.
Excellent video! A boatload of gold nuggets for anyone who hopes to entertain and inform using video.
Two years of college level video training 24 minutes. I'm subbing
Dave, I was born radical! You gave a lot of excellent information in this video and I learned a bunch. Thank you very much!
Thanks Gonagain.
Tx for the no nonsense, meat and potatoes and direct delivery of your material. I really appreciate it!
You're welcome Brian
being a small you tuber myself,
is it always great to see how others making their video's
I would love to see how other shoot video.....
Very good video. I appreciate all the tips and covering a-z. Great job!
thanks.
Some nice tips, thanks. I've been into photography since I was a kid in the early 1960's, and even had a small b/w darkroom in my closet. A lot of what I knew from photography transitioned to video, but there's a lot of new stuff to learn in video, and I'm still learning. It has always amazed me how two people can stand side-by-side taking a photo of the same exact thing, and one photo will be boring and the other not. People often wanted a copy of one of my photos even though they were standing right next to me taking their own photo. One of my biggest pet peeves has always been tilted photos. When around buildings I always use a corner of a building to help me get my camera level, building corners are always plumb (straight up and down... well.. unless it's an old leaning barn or something.) Telephone poles can't really be relied on to be plumb.. they usually tilt one direction or another. Many tripods have built in bubble levels. I carry a very small 1.5 inch long bubble level in my pocket. One of the hardest things to learn is keeping the camera level when tracking a moving object. It took me about two years of taking motorsports photos and video to learn how to do that. The incentive is to tilt the camera in the direction you're moving it, like it's a steering wheel. I'm not sure I really have any tips on how to learn that other than to keep it in mind when you're filming and practice practice practice. I've been a sound guy all my life, so already have field recorders, microphones, and wireless mic setups. When taking video far from the camera I like to wear a lavalier mic. When there are two of us I like to use lavalier mics and record each person on a separate channel (one person on the left channel, the other on the right). It makes editing a lot easier, and when you're done editing you just make it mono, or near mono if you want to keep some left / right separation. If you record one person on the left channel, but their on the right side of the video frame it's easy in most audio editors to swap the the channels left / right.
For editing video in Windows on a budget, about the best free! full featured editor I've found is called VSDC Video Editor.
www.videosoftdev.com/free-video-editor
Thats good info Duck. A couple people have asked me about software and I get the impression they are talking about PCs ( which I know NOTHING about). Ive heard some people have good luck with a software called "Filmora" .....I think its free.
Very interesting about keeping a camera level will tracking a moving object.....Ive never tried that...It's interesting that people are inclined to rotate the camera....Ill remember that. Thanks Duck
Filmora looks nice, and works on both PC and Mac, but it's $40 a year or $60 lifetime. VSDW is free, which is the perfect price for those on a tight budget, and it's a very powerful and well laid out editor, for PC only though. Though I wouldn't really recommend it to people looking for an "easy" program that will do it all for them. It's a program better suited to those that want to really learn and do advanced non-linear editing.
The one other video tip I would give is... don't use weird transition effects between scenes. They're annoying. No one likes seeing those :> Stick with simple cross-fades and fade to / from black.
That was great. I will watch with a whole new understanding of what's going on. Perfect, precise explanation. Tips we all can use. Thanks Dave
Thanks RuthieWrangler.
Excellent information! I am just getting started with my channel and each time out has been a learning experience for sure. This was exactly what I needed to hear. Cheers from NW PA
Thanks ER! Glad you found it valuable.
I really enjoyed that Dave. It's surprising how much we can miss just not thinking about it. This video is a good wake up call to learn more and just refresh and sharpen it up. Thanks ATB Paul
Thanks Paul.
I need to watch this 10x a day for a month.
Wow I have learned a lot on this video. B roll i had no ideal. I will apply this knowledge in my next ones.
Awesome!!
same man! great video for sure
Hi Dave & Brooks,
This vid is 100% of value! Absolute worthy tips.
Thanks and greetings from Holland.
Thanks FP! Always good to hear from Holland, and I'm glad you liked the video!
Absolutely fabulous. After over a year of shooting outdoor videos this is still an invaluable bunch of information. Thank you
I'm glad you found it valuable. Thanks
Loved this, very informative and just what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
Yep, good refresh of what I forget. Thanks Dave!
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Best part of video is when you talk pricing. Love how you find the best deal.
Hey Ron. I have another camera but it only shoots in 720 not 1080.....but I paid $2 for it at a yard sale! Its a canon and it works. I would use it but I like just using one camera.
Great job Dave!
Thanks JT.
That was so informational. Thank you.
Wow! Great info, Dave, thanks!!
Thanks Wanda
Lots of great info, Dave. Thank you.
Thanks Mike
I will watch this several more times to learn more, thanks for posting this.
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I love the way you shoot and edit your videos. Gonna give these trips a try on my next video. Thanks!
This is so helpful (like most of your videos). Thanks!
Great vid Dave! Very informative and i got allot out of it, thanx for some good advice! As a photographer and hobby painter i totally use the rule of thirds. That is especially useful in landscape photography. I learned from my teacher that explained why it is kind of important. If you stand on lets say a hill, looking out over the landscape around, you use a tiny bit of a second to look in the dead center of the view. Then your brain starts to scan the view from one side to the other to find balance in the "picture". Your brain wont stop searching for that balance until you find that rule of thirds. When you look at a painting a photo or a view you will almost always find pleasure in the rule of thirds views. Photos or paintings that has the object in the center we tend to stop looking at it, or dont look at it cause there is not that balance your brain wants. It has been proven that photos, pictures and other things that has this rule of thirds in it, is looked at a significant longer time than centered ones, cause the brain finds it "off set" and unbalanced. It is friendlier and prettier to your brain and more pleasing with that rule! :) I hope you will make a video where you show some basic editing tip, i would love that! :)
Thanks Elisabeth, I might do a video on editing. I have some other things I'd like to cover.
I had no idea the rule of thirds was that important! I was only taught to do it......not why you should. Thats fascinating that there is so much of a mental aspect behind it. Thanks for explaining that. I will pay closer attention to it from now on.
@@Bushradical You are welcome! :)
Great advice. Thanks Dave
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Great tips man!!!
This is great! Thanks for sharing your hard earned knowledge. I'm going to try a lot of this on the next video.
Good luck!
This is a great video! Thanks for all the tips and tricks, some of this I was aware of from my longtime interest in photography, but I've been switching to video and this has really helped me apply it. I've actually been pausing and taking notes 😊😊😊
Thanks Jen. I hope it has some value to what your doing now.
This is amazing. Thank you.
Awesome!! Great video!
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Thanks Dave it was a great film.
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Great video Dave, thanks!!!!
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Good video. You gave a bunch of great tips. I like your tip of "don't waste the viewers' time." I'm so guilty of leaving random crap in videos when it really should just be cut.
Thanks for the comment Jamie. For this video I think I shot an hour and 15 minutes of footage.....I cut out whole sections because I felt they dragged a bit. I always appreciate it when someone edits tight.
Unless it adds to the overall video.
Great stuff and great videos as usual. Learned a lot on this one.
Thanks!
Excellent! I needed this. I look forward to using some of these techniques. Thank you! :-)
Thanks J2000!
I HAVE NEVER MADE VIDEOS BUT AFTER LISTENING TO YOU I AM GOING TO START, i GIVE THIS VIDEO A 10; THANKS
Thanks Frederick.
great info Dave! Making youtube videos not my thing but I did find your video had great info that could help me with making personal clips. I think you are a great speaker and instructor. Keep up the good work
Thank you very much Marilyn.
Very useful information.Thank you!
Very informative. I like how you do up close and personal. Well done.
Thanks
GREAT video! I have started making my own and I am guilty of every one of the "Do not do's" LOL.....I will now be better! Thank you!
You'll do fine. Its all a process of getting better. Good luck
Thank you for sharing this. I learned quite a bit!
Thanks Byron
Really great video, I learned loads.
Thanks Dreadlocks Outdoors!
Really enjoyed this Mr. Bushman! Studied photography in art school (majored in painting), so it was a refresher for me. When the time comes to retire, I would like to buy a van, or some sort of vehicle, mod it out, and travel the country painting watercolors. That is the game plan. Also, along the way it might be good to document it with videos for youtube. You have great delivery! Bless.
Thanks. Modding a van and traveling the country sounds like a great channel
Great video, great info. Thank you
Thanks Diane.
Thank you so much for all the great information Dave. I'm just starting, trying to learn a little about editing. I was happy to hear that you use iMovie. I've had some people tell me that I just have to get this or that $400 editing program in order to put a decent video together. I like simple, and I have iMovie already. Great advice!
Hey Randy, hit me up anytime if you have any questions. I believe in "simple" too, and you definitely don't need fancy gear to make good videos.
Thanks for sharing this information, love the tips👍😊...
Thanks Cheryl!
Nice tips Dave thanks!
Thanks C2!
Some really good points you brought up here. All of it covers the big no nos in filming. I'm just now getting into chopping down the clips as much as possible. Like you said, it takes a lot of trimming on different days to do it right. Now I think I go through cutting footage 3 to 5 times before I'm done. Your videos have always been top notch. I really like your still photo stories too. You tell a good story.
Thanks Mobiltec. I enjoy doing the still photo stuff with the narrations, but its a lot of work too.
Good tips buddy!
I did pick up a few tips.
Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching.
"Never waste the viewers time". Excellent advice for creators.
I think its the best motto to have. Thanks for watching.
I just learned something new! Thank you!
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I never comment but that was a really great video. I actually learned something. Thank you.
Thanks Roger.
Great video, well done.. some excellent information.
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Thanks for sharing this great information!
thank you
Great Tips for a newby like me Dave, Im now subscribed to your channel
Awesome ! Thanks for the sub!
Great timing Dave! My 2019 goal is to build up my channel, and these are all fantastic tips that I'm going to try to incorporate into my videos. Thank you very much!
Awesome! I sure hope you found something helpful. Good luck in 2019!
@@Bushradical Thanks! Good luck to you, Brooke and the family as well!
Hey Dave good video man I enjoyed it like usual and I like that hat
Thanks ! Brooke made the hat for me.
This video was extremely helpful. Thanks a lot.
Thanks TZ
I learned by experience,but still learned from you..I have over 135 videos and learned every time.thank you or the tips anyway
Your welcome. Totally agree with learning by experience ...... I would say one of the best teachers of all is editing your own footage. As soon as I started editing, I started shooting a LOT different.
Very helpful, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Cindy.
This is going to help me a lot!
Hey man thanks for the great video!!! I am just now starting to watch the alone series on second season half way through. Appreciation the help :)
I hope you enjoy the seasons! It was a fantastic thing to be part of.
Great video sir....helps me out a lot as I'm almost ready to launch my gear review channel...thanks for posting!
If you have any questions about the whole youtube thing, just hit me up! Good luck
Excellent! I learned alot. Thank you for taking the time to make this. You've made the world a better place... i have unsubbed many channels due to them driving me crazy with ineptitude.
I would like to try make video's, but as you can see, I have a face more suited to radio😆.
From my old plus x pan photo days, I was into textures. A nice tight shot of a familiar texture, and you can almost feel it, by just seeing it.
Thanks RC. I like the close up stuff a lot.
Great Ideas I need to try myself.
Thanks
Great job my friend keep it up
Thanks Wayne
Great stuff! When I saw this, I thought, "Hey, Dave actually had professional training, this should be good!" I struggle with brevity when I edit. I really value short and sweet videos. But often I find myself needing to leave in a lot of slower stuff in order for the video to work. I think that the main thing is that my camping-type videos are shot in a "Hang-out-in-camp-and-talk-while-doing-stuff" style which simply isn't brief in how it is shot. I also guess that I always try to present as much of the "whole camp experience" as I can convey. Maybe that's just something that I might experiment with in the future. However, the videos that I have done where I'm just presenting a topic or subject of some sort, or talking about a piece of gear, are shot in a different style. There is no need to convey any "experience". That is a nice change of pace as you can much more easily cut out the junk! Just an aside......Is it just me, or do the "Alone" editors leave in a bit of the junk (moving the camera, stepping back after hitting the record button, etc.) in order to present a somewhat more "amateurish" feel to the finished product? Almost like they are trying show that there aren't camera people out with the contestants. At any rate, I found myself doing a bit of that myself while I was editing my solo challenge video. [insert red-faced emoji here] I guess that I was just in a sort of accustomed to a certain feeling, and found myself sometimes doing the same thing.
Hi Gareth, I got a lot out of Dave's video myself. Now if it would just stop snowing I'll get out and try it.
Good question about the Alone editors. I don't know what they look for when they edit. Maybe they're leaving in some amateurish stuff on purpose. I don't know. But I do know there are some contestants that were just terrible with the camera. ( So I've been informed by production) Some of the people with the least amount of air time may have turned in little of nothing for raw footage. Some contestants have had real issues with production over not shooting enough. Some people hate running camera.
A lot of us that were on the show didn't have any experience with cameras before Alone. I didn't. Shooting Alone felt like a job at the time because I shot a LOT of film every day and it got in the way of getting things done. You didn't go fishing- you got your camera gear /set up shots/ and then went fishing. But doing youtube has been a great fit for me because I love the editing and sharing things with the audience. But Alone was work, and I was totally new to filming.
Right on.
@@gonagain We've even been getting some good snow down here!
@@GaerHampton I'd pack up and head for Arizona but their weather isn't so hot either. We usually make a long road trip south right about now, but this year we're going to wait for better conditions to make it worth our while. Anxious to use my new drone and camera!
Good stuff, thanks Dave.
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Great tips! Thanks!
Thanks Spirit Forest.
Thank you sir.. for tips for making quality film..
Thanks for watching
That is a ton of awesome info! Thank you!
Thanks WGM!!!
@@Bushradical I have already recommended this vid to 3 personal friends and implemented a couple of your tips!
Thanks for this tutorial ,really informative.
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Thanks for sharing this information to help others.
Again, it shows your true "metal" that you always share freely to help us all.
This is what we all strive for. (not me of course, my vids SUCK)
But maybe someday my video creations will be made better due to this info.
I had some great guys give me some pointers....
lol...watching your fire, Dave, I instinctively moved my head to avoid getting smoke in my eyes! :)
Thats funny!
Just subscribed. ... thanks for the info. Very helpful, and things to keep in mind for all vloggers .
Cheers!
Right on! I hope it was helpful Garth, and thanks for the sub!
Some great tips Dave! Most I was aware of, some I wasn't, and a fair portion I just wasn't thinking about. You mentioned the ill effects of back lighting, but it brings to mind an issue I've been noticing in my own videos, which is lack of lighting. Once dusk rolls around filming gets difficult, and it's the time I most often want to film because I'm getting the fire started and preparing meals. I need to work on my framing as well, my camera doesn't have a forward facing viewfinder so it's tricky. And you made some excellent points about B-roll, something I should focus a little more on
ditto
It would be tough not to have a forward facing viewfinder......Ive never known anything else, but I can imagine how that would make things a LOT harder.
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Very good information. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks MD
Thank you for the great information, it would greatly help with our home videos.
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Great tips! Thanks
I hope they were useful.
Happy Birthday 🎂!!!!!!!
Thanks Paul, I appreciate it.
Great Video... Thanks
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