Part 2.

Loading up your bike with GoPros is only the start if you want to produce anything like Long Way Anywhere or even making something of YouTube std. There's a technique to film making that these days goes beyond filming a 20 min section of pretty scenery and slapping some pirated rock music over the top in iMovie.

In fact to produce anything decent changes what you're doing from filming a bike trip to riding a bike between locations on a film shoot. You'll be riding the same section of pre scripted road half a dozen times to film everything from different angles, your fellow travellers will have to become unpaid actors / extras (and that, in my experience, is really hard - they want to get to a destination, not spend half the day p*ssing about with cameras) and you'll have to get used to doing warm and friendly speeches to camera (a phone may be better for this) to link the riding sections together. All of this is why people filming their trips 'properly' seem to take three times as long to get anywhere as you and I just riding normally.

And then there's sound. Unless you're planning a silent movie the microphones on GoPros and most phones are terrible. It's as important (at least) as the visuals and almost everybody (me included) overlooks it. Have a look at this for a run down of add ons for phone filming -

https://www.dpreview.com/news/723449...r-vlogging-rig

And check out some of Jan Krijtenburg's videos here and on YouTube to see how he does on bike filming. Here's a link to his YT stuff -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7o...KqR3SyQiVy6ehw