[1] The series sent eight young Canadians to locations throughout Canada, to create short reports on local life and culture for television broadcast.
[2] The videographers were Heather Barrett, Ngaire Blankenberg, Maureen Bradley, Pat Harrison, Eli Laliberte, Duncan McCue, David Ozier and Kam Rao.
[3] Three additional reporters — Katerina Cizek, Matt Gallagher and Howie Woo — were also named as "backup" videographers in the event that one or more members of the main team had to drop out during production,[3] although none of them ultimately appeared on the show.
[8] John Haslett Cuff of The Globe and Mail opined, however, that the show effectively just duplicated programs that other Canadian television networks were already airing, such as YTV's Street Noise and MuchMusic's Mike & Mike's Excellent X-Canada Adventures.
[9] In a 1993 piece analyzing the contrast between the popular success of La Course destination monde and the failure of Road Movies, Ray Conlogue of The Globe and Mail asserted that Road Movies's lack of a competitive framework meant that the young filmmakers were not receiving any professional feedback on areas where their work may have needed to improve; the destinations being limited to Canada, where the Quebec series allowed filmmakers to travel around the world, meant that Road Movies was not matching the Quebec series as a window for learning about different world cultures; and Road Movies's directive to avoid the controversial or challenging topics that were commonplace on La Course meant that the reports on Road Movies were rarely much more than tourism booster videos or human interest profiles.