IWTYAL 197: How to make great travel videos

In today's episode, Olly and Jan discuss how we make our travel videos. Use these tips to improve your own holiday films!

Episode Summary:

• The importance of story
• What do you talk about?
• The “start of the day” process
• Do you need a professional camera?
• Recording good audio
• How to edit the smart way

Equipment & Resources Mentioned:

Here's the (very affordable) equipment we use to make all our videos:

• iPhone6 Plus – a state of the art camera in your pocket
• Sony Cybershot – one of the best compact cameras to travel with
• Rode smartLav+ – fantastic clip-on mic for your smartphone
• Screenflow – great, powerful video editing software for Mac
• YouTube Audio Library – free music to add to your videos

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Olly Richards

Creator of the StoryLearning® Method

Olly Richards is a renowned polyglot and language learning expert with over 15 years of experience teaching millions through his innovative StoryLearning® method. He is the creator of StoryLearning, one of the world's largest language learning blogs with 500,000+ monthly readers.

Olly has authored 30+ language learning books and courses, including the bestselling "Short Stories" series published by Teach Yourself.

When not developing new teaching methods, Richards practices what he preaches—he speaks 8 languages fluently and continues learning new ones through his own methodology.