Make It Epic: Travel Vlog Tips and Tricks
Edited by Ben Jacklin
September 17, 2019
Been on an exotic beach holiday, amazing mountain hike, or exhilarating skydiving adventure? A travel video is the best way to share your experiences with others – in person and on social media. People love to experience natural beauty, crazy stunts, awesome shows, and engaging stories – so why not tell them yours?
That said, simply filming your surroundings whenever you feel like it rarely makes good travel video material. In this article, we’ll explain how to make a travelogue video and share some useful travel vlog tips on equipment, planning, and making the travel video itself. A little time spent on preparation will go a long way to helping you create a great travel journal or holiday video for everyone to enjoy.
Read on to find out how to make a travel video that will inspire others and engage your audience from start to finish.
Inspiration first! Here’s a sample travelogue we’ve put together using the Movavi’s travel video editor to get your creative juices flowing.
Here are the travel video tips what we’ll cover:
- Choose a theme and stick with it
- Prepare equipment: cameras, drones, and other gear
- Shoot great footage: 4 important things to remember
- Edit your travel movie with Movavi Video Editor
Choose a Theme and Stick with It
Even if your two-week trip to Thailand included such wildly different activities as snorkeling, shopping for souvenirs, elephant riding, and temple sightseeing, cramming all of your experiences into one video will overload your viewers. If you want to create an engaging story instead of a boring video diary, pick one topic and stick to it. Here are some ideas to try out:

Clubbing and parties

Concerts and perfomances

Beach vacation

Hiking and camping

Extreme sports

Local culture

Family holidays

Wildlife and safaris

Food and shopping
Prepare Equipment: Cameras, Drones, and Other Gear
Shoot Great Footage: 4 Important Things to Remember
Instinctively, we tend to hold the camera at eye level, because that’s the way we normally see things. But lowering the camera angle makes everything seem larger and more impressive. However, if you’re shooting action sports video using a GoPro, an eye-level footage will be more captivating.
People want to be amazed – show them the best moments of your adventure: breathtaking vistas, stylish cocktails, wild parties, exotic animals, romantic old streets and canals. No-one wants to see a boring documentary with your standard hotel rooms or drive from the airport.
Everyone loves stories: let your audience know where you are and what’s going on to really engage them in your video. Look for opportunities to establish context while filming. In videography, there are the three main ways to add context:
- Visual narrative. Create continuity through editing by arranging scenes into a meaningful sequence
- Text. Create an opening title sequence or add captions to the video
Stories work best when they have different characters in them. Capture your travel companions or locals in the places you’re filming, so your viewers will have someone to identify with. Recording the emotions and reactions of other people also makes great movie material.
Edit Your Travel Movie with Movavi Video Editor

Movavi Video Editor
Your next step in video-making
- Edit video clips, images, and audio on a timeline
- Add transitions, filters, titles, and stickers
- Animate objects using keyframes, use more built-in media
- Export videos in any popular format
* The free version of Movavi Video Editor has the following restrictions: 7-day trial period, watermark on the output videos, and, if you’re saving a project as an audio file, an ability to save only half the audio length. Learn more
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