It’s exciting to travel to a new place, exploring new locations and cultures.  Video is a great way to share these experiences, it’s one of the most powerful mediums for storytelling. Video can take you to the heart of the action and make your audience feel like they're there themselves. It’s easier to record video than ever before, but few people really know how to capture video beyond hitting the record button.

So you have the tools, but do you know what not to do? Learning how to record good video starts with learning about the bad. Here, we take a look at some common mistakes, things like waving your camera around, bad audio and poor lighting.

When you know the common mistakes to avoid, it makes it easier to get things right—particularly when it might be a onetime opportunity.

If you found this video useful, then check out the full course: How to Record Better Travel Videos. Learn how to record compelling travel videos that people will want to watch and share, maybe even buy. The course looks which camera to choose, how to compose shots, capturing audio and how use video for its strengths to tell a story.

You can take this course straight away with a subscription to Envato Elements where you'll get access not only to this course, but also to our growing library of over 1,000 video courses and industry-leading eBooks on Envato Tuts+.

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