Welcome to English as a Second Language podcast number 833, Shooting Travel Videos.
This is English as a Second Language podcast episode 833.
I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan. and get the learning guide for this episode.
This episode is a dialogue between Matilda and Cesar regarding going on a trip and making some videos.
Let's get started.
Hurry up.
We'll miss the tour bus if we don't leave right now.
I'm just getting some footage of this area before we leave.
This area is known for its...
I'm doing a voiceover for this segment.
Voiceovers are very important in good travel videos.
You can add the voiceover when you edit it.
Let's go.
Just give me five more minutes.
Hmm, this footage is turning out to be too shaky.
Hold on while I set up the tripod.
We don't have time for that.
Grab your camcorder and let's go.
Too much motion will ruin any travel video.
Wait!
I want to get a close-up of that building and a wide-angle shot of this entire area.
Hey, where are you going with my gear?
I and your gear are going to the tour bus.
I'm not going to get left behind again.
Cesar begins our dialogue by saying to Matilda, hurry up.
Hurry up means go faster.
You're moving too slowly.
Hurry up.
We'll miss the tour bus if we don't leave right now.
We'll miss means we won't be able to get on quickly the tour bus, because it will leave without us.
A tour bus is a large bus that carries many people, sometimes twenty, thirty or more people, And it takes you on some sort of tour.
So you go around and you learn about different things or perhaps you go from one city to the next.
And the other people on the bus are on the same tour as you are.
They're going on vacation and are going to the same places you're going to.
You can have a tour bus within a city.
That just gives you information about the most important places in the city.
It takes you to those places.
You could also have a tour bus that goes in between cities, that travels around the country even.
Cesar is worried about missing the tour bus.
He says we'll miss it if we don't leave right now, immediately.
Matilda, who's obviously a little slow, says I'm just getting some footage of this area before we leave.
Footage, F-O-O-T-A-G-E, is, in this case, a video recording.
It used to be, of course, that when you recorded things like a motion picture, you would have some tape physical tape that would go around inside the machine and it would record it on that.
That is, the video would be recorded on this little piece of tape that would go around inside.
And if you took the tape and you unwound it, you could actually measure how many feet the tape was.
Probably that's the origin of the word footage.
But nowadays, of course, we don't have actual physical film, at least in most cameras, that a regular consumer, a regular person would use.
But we still sometimes use this word footage to refer to an amount of video recording.
I think it's becoming less common nowadays.
Matilda says she's getting some footage.
She's recording some video of this area where they are right now before they leave.
She says...
This area is known for its... She starts narrating the video.
She starts talking into the camera.
Cesar says, now what are you doing?
Matilda says, I'm doing a voiceover for this segment.
A voice-over is when you have a video and you hear someone's voice who's not actually in the video.
At least you can't see the person.
So a voice-over would be any kind of recording that you would hear while watching a video of something else.
Matilda says she's doing a voiceover for this segment.
A segment S-E-G-M-E-N-T is a section or a part of a video, a film, a television show, a podcast, an audio show.
Any part or section of that, a smaller part of it, would be called a segment.
So Matilda is using all of this vocabulary that would probably be more likely used by a professional filmmaker.
Matilda says voiceovers are very important in good travel videos.
Travel videos would be Videos that show different popular tourist areas.
It is something you would take when you go on a trip.
If you go to Paris or you go to Bangkok or you go to Tokyo, you could take videos of those areas and you would show them to your friends or to other people to show them what you can see there.
That's a travel video.
Cesar says you can add the voiceover when you edit it.
Let's go.
To edit E-D-I-T means to change something usually an audio or a video to make it better, to get rid of the parts that you don't want.
We also use this verb in talking about writing.
You can edit someone's writing.
You can go through and correct the grammar, change sentences around, correct the punctuation.
All that might be part of editing.
Cesar says you can add the voiceover to the video when you edit it.
Let's go.
Matilda says, just give me five more minutes.
Hmm.
This footage is turning out to be too shaky.
The sound that she makes, hmm, is one you would make when you were maybe thinking of something.
Maybe you saw something you didn't like or you were not certain about something.
Hmm, usually it's spelled H-M-M.
Matilda says, hmm, this footage is turning out to be, is resulting in something that is too shaky.
S-H-A-K-Y.
Something that is shaky has a lot of small movements.
So if you are taking a video with a camera or your phone and you move it around a lot, when you watch it it will look like you are moving the camera around and that would be shaky.
It's hard to watch.
Matilda says, hold on, meaning wait, while I set up the tripod.
A tripod...
T-R-I-P-O-D is not related to a podcast.
A tripod is a device usually made out of metal that has three legs.
That's where you get the tri, T-R-I, meaning three.
The tripod is used to put a camera on so that the camera remains steady.
That is to say it doesn't shake.
So you put a camera on a tripod and you can use that for taking pictures.
It could be a video camera.
It could be a regular camera that you would take photographs with a still camera.
I guess we could call it.
Cesar says, we don't have time for that.
Grab your camcorder and let's go.
A camcorder, C-A-M-C-O-R-D-E-R, is a camera that records video.
It's another word for a video camera, a camcorder, coming from the words camera and recorder.
Matilda says Cesar is trying to get Matilda on the tour bus so that they can leave, but Matilda is spending her time talking about her video.
She says too much motion, M-O-T-I-O-N, meaning too much movement, will ruin any travel video.
To ruin...
R-U-I-N means to make something worthless, to destroy, to make it so that you can't use it anymore.
Matilda is saying that if you have too much motion, if you have too much movement, if it's too shaky, then the travel video will be ruined.
You can't use it really.
Motion, I should mention, has a couple of other meanings in English.
Take a look at our learning guide for those.
Matilda continues Wait.
I want to get a close-up of that building and a wide-angle shot of this entire area.
A close-up, C-L-O-S-E hyphen U-P, is an image of something where the camera is very close to it.
It's right next to the object.
It could be someone's face or it could be a thing.
Matilda wants a close-up of a building she sees. and a wide-angle shot. of this entire area.
A wide angle shot is a photograph or a video that's made with a special lens, a special thing you put on the front of the camera to show a very wide area so you're able to see more than you could with a regular camera lens.
Matilda says, hey, where are you going with my gear?
Gear, G-E-A-R, here just means my equipment.
Cesar says, I and your gear are going to the tour bus.
So Cesar's taking her camera and her things and walking toward the tour bus.
He says, I'm not going to get left behind again.
To be left behind means not to be taken with the rest of the group of people, often because you're too late or you're too slow.
If the bus is going to leave at 8 o'clock and you come at 8.15, You will be left behind.
You will have to stay where you are because you missed the bus.
And that's what Cesar is trying to prevent.
Now let's listen to the dialogue, this time at a normal speed.
Hurry up!
We'll miss the tour bus if we don't leave right now.
I'm just getting some footage of this area before we leave.
This area is known for its... Now what are you doing?
I'm doing a voiceover for this segment.
Voiceovers are very important in good travel videos.
You can add the voiceover when you edit it.
Let's go.
Just give me five more minutes.
Hmm, this footage is turning out to be too shaky.
Hold on while I set up the tripod.
We don't have time for that.
Grab your camcorder and let's go.
Too much motion will ruin any travel video.
Wait, I want to get a close-up of that building and a wide-angle shot of this entire area.
Hey, where are you going with my gear?
I and your gear are going to the tour bus.
I'm not going to get left behind again.
All of our scripts are written and edited by the wonderful script writer, Dr. Lucy Say.
Thank you, Lucy.
From Los Angeles, California, I'm Jeff McQuillan.
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