Table of Contents


1. Introduction


2. The Power of Web-video


3. Understanding Tourism Marketing


4. Shooting Effective Promotional Holiday Videos

    4.1.Making your interviewees feel at ease


5. Understanding the Basics of Videography

5.1. Equipment

5.2. Shooting professional video

5.3. Light and composition

            5.4. Controlling your camera

    5.4.1  Exposure

    5.4.2. Shutter speed

    5.4.3  Aperture

    5.4.4. White balance

    5.4.5. Recording good audio


6. The Editing Process

6.1.  Editing software

6.2.  The principles of editing

6.3   Effective Editing

6.4. The importance of music and sounds

6.5.  The basic structure

6.6.  Branding your video

6.7.  Reviewing your work

6.8.  Compression and uploading


7. Selling Your Services to Tourism Companies

7.1. Approaching companies

7.2. Other avenues



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How To Get Paid Filming Holidays


A Guide to Producing Effective Promotional Videos for the

Tourism Industry


For just $US 29.99

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You will also receive:

  1. Bullet a 2nd eBook  on tourism marketing / tourist motivation

  2. Bulleta free listing on my database of videographers

  3. Bullet personal assistance

  4. Bullet regular updates

  5. Bullet a monthly newsletter


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“Overall I think it's very inspiring and aimed at a wide range of people. You don't get bored reading it if you have some tourism knowledge like myself and done some tourist filming but if I knew nothing about tourism and never even held a camcorder I wouldn't find it too technical or complicated either, which makes for a great manual. It was a real pleasure reading it and I can’t wait to try it out when I get to Hong Kong. I mean you look at it and just think: wow, I want to do this for a living!“


You will learn about:


  1. Bullet Tourism marketing

  2. Bullet Producing effective videos

  3. Bullet Shutter speed and aperture

  4. Bullet Recording good audio

  5. Bullet Structuring your video

  6. Bullet Effective editing

  7. Bullet The use of music and sounds

  8. Bullet Selling your services


The manual will include:


  1. Bullet summaries for each section

  2. Bullet links to more information

  3. Bullet good and bad sample videos

  4. Bullet letters used to sell services

  5. Bullet images and graphics


Who this manual is for:


  1. Bullet anyone with a camcorder

  2. Bullet hobby videographers

  3. Bullet students eager to travel

  4. Bullet tourism industry professionals

  5. Bullet professional videographers wanting to work for tourism


The format:


  1. Bullet you will receive 3 pd files

  2. Bullet the files can be downloaded

  3. Bullet the manual contains 50 pages

  4. Bullet the study contains 47 pages

  5. Bullet the list of operators sorted   into types of holidays and countries of operation