{"id":2861,"date":"2016-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wotif-blog-staging-lb-1978096533.ap-southeast-2.elb.amazonaws.com\/vc\/blog\/family\/holiday-filming-tips-for-kids\/"},"modified":"2020-04-02T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:33:11","slug":"holiday-filming-tips-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/family\/tips\/holiday-filming-tips-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday filming tips for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Do you have a young Spielberg on your hands who you&#8217;re planning to let loose filming up a storm these summer holidays?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span lang=\"EN-AU\">We chatted with 11 year-old Ted Baker from Sydney (right), who created his very own family holiday movie recently. He shares his top tips for filming success!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.trvl-media.com\/media\/content\/expaus\/wotif\/ads\/2016\/smt\/600px-wide\/holding-gopros.jpg\" alt=\"\"\" \/><br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-AU\"><strong>DO<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be safe, there&#8217;s no shot worth falling over or hurting yourself for.<\/li>\n<li>Keep an eye on your screen the whole time you&#8217;re filming. You don&#8217;t want to notice your finger is over the lens or that you weren&#8217;t actually recording until it&#8217;s too late!<\/li>\n<li>Remember to charge your equipment&#8217;s batteries every night. You don&#8217;t want to run out of battery during the day.<\/li>\n<li>Remember you&#8217;re telling a story. It&#8217;s often helpful to have a few angles of something you are filming. So say if your Mum is eating an ice cream on the beach, you might shoot a wide shot to show the location and then a close up shot to see how yum the ice-cream looks. <\/li>\n<li>Put people in their best light. If the sun is behind YOU, or to your side, your subject will be lit the best.<\/li>\n<li>Play with fun stuff like slow motion. Just don&#8217;t do it the whole time.<\/li>\n<li>Shoot a variety of things. You don&#8217;t need to spend too long filming one thing, people want to see all the different things you get up to on your holiday. <\/li>\n<li>Have fun! The more fun you have the more fun your footage will be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\"><br \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-AU\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\"><strong>DON&#8217;T<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t shoot in portrait mode. Always shoot with the camera on its side (landscape mode).<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t feel like you have to be shooting the whole time. <\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t get worried about the moments you&#8217;ve missed or trying to make certain things happen.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t stress out. Everything you do is going to be personal and there is no wrong footage. <\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t put any other effects on your footage \u2013 you can add these after you&#8217;ve finished filming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a young Spielberg on your hands who you&#8217;re planning to let loose filming up a storm these summer holidays? We chatted with 11 year-old Ted Baker from Sydney (right), who created his very own family holiday movie recently. He shares his top tips for filming success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80],"tags":[43],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}