I really want to start planning some motocamping trips but my wife has been working every weekend and it's a bit rude to say, "hey wifey, take a weekend off so you can stay at home with the kids so I can go motocamping". I don't think she'd let me get away with that just now. I am going camping in a couple of weeks with a few mates, we're going fishing on a charter boat as a Father's Day pressie from our wives. I plan on taking along the 360° camera and trying to capture some of the weekend so I can use it as an episode at some stage. The trip won't really fit with what I really want the YouTube channel to be about, so I don't really want to "open" the channel with it. Also, I don't have a mic that'll work as the one I've ordered hasn't arrived, it may arrive prior to going away which would be good as I could test things out.
I don't think that I'll be able to get the intro video finished by the end of August which was the goal I set myself a little while ago, but I haven't received the mount for the bike yet either and I want the intro to at least be close to what the rest of the videos will be like. Once I have all the kit and tested it out, then I'll shoot the intro.
I was thinking about the schedule that I set myself too, 20 videos for 20 weeks and that it might be a little ambitious. I was wondering if I could get away with maybe 12 videos a year, one each month, but to do that I think each video would have to be a complete trip and not split into two shorter videos. I wouldn't like having to wait a whole month just to see the second part of the video myself so I don't want my viewers to have to do the same. I was starting to like that idea until I realised that it would be 12 nights of camping where my original plan was only 10.
I think that I will definitely need some more memory cards to capture all the footage for a three night trip, I'm thinking that I may even struggle with a two night trip. This is also why I want to try and record the upcoming fishing trip, just to get some sort of idea on how much footage I can actually hold on the SD card that I have and how easy it is to transfer that footage to my phone (which again needs the adapter that I'm still waiting on).
When the warmer weather arrives along with daylight savings, I should be able to take off the occasional Friday and head out after work on a Thursday. Most of the places that I want to visit initially are within two hours ride so if I'm prepared and have a plan on what I need to shoot each day, I could make that work as long as my wife doesn't have to work late night shopping. At a pinch I could go on the Friday but I'd need to be home early enough for my wife to head off to work at around 8:30am and that may just be pushing things. I don't want to be in a position where I'm rushing things as it will come across in the videos and it's also when accidents can happen. We also visit my Dad most Saturdays, so even if my wife wasn't working, I'd still need to be home in time to clean up and be ready to head out again for lunch.
Thursdays appeal to me as it will be quieter at all the places I want to go so I won't feel as self conscience about filming everything and talking to the camera. It would also give me a three day weekend which is always nice. Another option would be to take a Monday off and do a Sunday night, it should be fairly quiet but the roads will be busier as I head out with everyone else coming back.
As I'm writing this, I'm starting to think that it is going to be really hard to do what I want near a weekend, it's making me think that maybe taking a Wednesday off could work. I can get things ready on Sunday and make sure that everything is clean, packed and ready for use. Plan where I want to go and what I want to try and do at the location, as in walking trails or visiting historic sites. Get home a little early on Tuesday, throw everything on the bike and head off. Another plus would be that it should be really quiet where ever I choose to go. All these plans definitely require it to be daylight savings as I don't want to be arriving anywhere in the dark, it's not fun setting up a tent in the dark and the camera doesn't take good footage in low light either.
So I'll be camping either on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday or some other night, sometime when it warms up and daylight savings is in effect, sometime between October and March, avoiding public holiday long weekends and school holidays... 10 nights in that time is going to be a little difficult but not impossible with proper planning and realistic goals.
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