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Vlogging setup for beginners

So Vlogging is kind of an important part of the YouTube culture, and it’s actually expanded beyond YouTube. A lot of people just in general, are vlogging to connect with their audience. Vlogs are an important part of businesses nowadays.

So to connect with your audiences, vlogs allow you to step into your world and give your audience a kind of behind-the-scenes look at you, and your life. Now, with that said, not everyone’s gonna be vlogging and doing the whole daily vlogging thing, unless you are a specific daily vlogger.

So for making the perfect vlog you need to know about how to shoot a blog and before that, you should know what you will need to shoot a blog. 

The Tools

These are few things that you will need to create your vlog. First, and most important you will need a camera. So the essentials are a camera. And beyond the camera, a stick or a tripod, to hold the camera, and a microphone, to capture better audio. At the very basic, that is the vlogger’s setup, and that is the essentials that you need.

Now personally, depending on the situation, I’ve had different variations of this. Sometimes I just use a camera by itself, but that’s just because of the situation that I’m in.

One camera that’s really good for vlogging is the GoPro, it’s just an easy camera to have in your pocket, and take it wherever you need to go. It’s also waterproof, shockproof, all that good stuff. And it captures a decent image that’s wide. So you can hold it out, out away from your face, and you can get at that good shot, and there are also some extra features on the GoPro, which help out a lot.

Another camera, which most of you have in your pocket right now, is your phone. And your phone is an important tool because you have it with you, it’s there all the time, and it captures good video, it captures good audio. So it’s a great camera to start with, to learn how to vlog, and to do all that.

But if you want to step it up, and you wanna actually get better at vlogging, you’re gonna wanna use a bigger camera, with a microphone.

Personally, you can use the Panasonic GH5, the GH4, Sony A6500, and Sony A6300.

Vloggers should have smaller cameras, something that’s not super heavy, but something that can also bring a microphone into.

The microphones you can use for recording audio for your vlogs is the Rode VideoMic Pro. Comprises of great microphone, to get a good sound out of doing vlogs, and doing videos on the go.

And the last piece is the stick. A lot of people use a JOBY Tripod, for a smaller footprint you can use a little mini tripod. It works well, it allows you to set the camera down, and still have that tripod shot, but then also, you can hold it as a stick, and it’s not as big as the JOBY.

And that is your basic vlogging kit. And one more thing, about the camera that you’re using, you just gotta use the camera that makes sense, in the situation that you’re filming.

So if you were doing something like river rafting so we’re gonna be just using the GoPro, because it’s waterproof, it’s easy to have on me. It can be attached to your helmet, or attach it to a stick.

And then I can pull it off, and also flog with it. So if you’re in a situation where you don’t want

To destroy your camera, because you’re in water or snow, holding a bigger camera with a microphone

Doesn’t make sense, just use a smaller camera, something that works for the situation.

But, if you do have the bigger setup, you’re gonna wanna use that as much as possible, because you want to get the best footage you can possible, no matter what situation you’re shooting.

Shooting

This is the fun part of making your vlog, shooting all the content, going and doing the adventure, and exploring and capturing it.

But there’s a lot more to shooting, than just going out and just going for it, and just shooting every little bit about your day.

So to shoot an interesting vlog, you’re gonna need to have a story, you’re gonna have to have a journey of some sort, or be going to an event.

Like there’s gotta be some sort of story that goes throughout your day. And you gotta think of it as a film. You gonna make a film every day, not a vlog. And that’s the whole thing, you gotta treat it as a film.

When you’re shooting a film, you have a story, you have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and you tell your story through a plot.

And a plot could be a hero’s journey, it could be a quest, it could be a tragedy like there are different ways to think about story and story structure.

From my personal experience, I urge you to shoot your vlogs first from rental cameras and accessories and get an idea of how to use them for a particular vlog. As I mentioned earlier you need to shoot your vlog from different equipment depending upon the situation. But it’s not easy and affordable for everybody to own every kind of camera for every kind of situation. So what should we do?

Don’t worry renting cameras and accessories is safe and the best possible solution anyone could get.

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