From the course: Mobile Video Production: Traveling with Gear

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What gear do you need?

What gear do you need?

- In video production, over-preparedness is encouraged, in fact, it's often needed. But when it comes to traveling with video gear, this can stab you in the foot. More gear requires more bags, and that requires potentially more money as well as stuff to carry. In this movie, we're going to take a look at the gear that I currently own, some decisions I've made to make sure that you don't have too much stuff with you. So, in front of me right now what I want to say is some of the gear that I considered to bring with me on my trip. And I want to bring you through some of the reasons why I decided not to bring this type of equipment. The first thing that I'm going to show you is actually the Mavic Pro. This is a very portable drone, so you should definitely take a look. It is great for mobile production. However, the majority of my time spent filming the northern lights, and trying to capture the northern lights from a drone, which didn't work too well in low-light situations, wasn't…

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