GoPro mount

[Swell]

I’m in the final stages of planning a trip to Corsica. I would like to record the journey and have settled on a GoPro to do the job but, I need to consider the mount I’ll use. Does anyone have any experience with this? I’d like to get the best angle possible so thought of mounting it on the screen but, I’m sure there’s a pitfall with this option.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

 

[Pip5ter]

In my limited experience with a GoPro I found having a couple of mounts, one on the bike & one on my helmet provided a good scope for decent footage.


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[EKIMYRF]

Chinmount will give you the most interesting footage
On bike tends to be a bit boring tbh

 

[Hatcho]

Trick here is to mix it up a bit. To end up with a video folks will want to keep watching, you'll need to take footage from various points of view - chin, front of bike, rear of bike, handheld, drive by, still photos etc.. Then when back home edit the various clips and add a music audio track. Plenty of free editing apps out there these days. Of all the footage you'll manage to take it's best to whittle it down to a couple of minutes.
For lots of mounting options, go for something like this: Linky

Aim for something like this...

 

[Loiq]

the first thing is remember the story.... the technology helps the story...

no matter how good the footage is if there's no story it's ain't anything...

 

[EKIMYRF]

the first thing is remember the story.... the technology helps the story...

no matter how good the footage is if there's no story it's ain't anything...

This 100%

 

[er-minio]

I don't like having stuff fixed to the helmet (I only allow a small intercom) so for the last few years I used a RAM mount fixed on the engine bars and mostly I keep the GoPro attached to one of my backpack straps. This lets me wire the GoPro to a bigger battery pack in the backpack and just let it run almost continously.
Gives you a decent point of view. You can move, if you want, to frame different things.

I filmed almost all the last few trips, creating 60 seconds videos of each, admittedly for my own fun, but the footage is generally hardly interesting. On road especially.
500% what LoIQ said.

Result (backpack strap) is something like this:

I posted this before.

Corsica, with a couple of very short bits from the engine bar mounts:

 

[Rugged Path]

Did you have the sound muted on the camera or through a video software package?

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[er-minio]

Are you asking about my clips?
The clips above are edited (crudely) in Premiere. The camera's audio track is muted (apart from a few small exceptions where id ducks in/out) and added the drum tracks.

Not sure you can mute from the camera directly, never looked into it as I never had the need. But any basic editing software (and even a few players) will remove an audio track.