The wildlife filmmaking syllabus is centered on three pillars that are critical to the production of every wildlife documentary – Pre-production, production and post production.
The wildlife filmmaking syllabus is centered on three pillars that are critical to the production of every wildlife documentary – Pre-production, production and post production.
Day 1: Orientation – Introduction to South Africa, the wildlife filming program, and an overview of the industry and program goals.
Day 2: Practical – Camera operation and maintenance, and datamanagement
Day 3: Practical – Filming animals, reading behaviour, editing footage
Day 4: Tutorial – Working with talent, audio in films
Day 5: Practical – Monkeyland & Birds of Eden shooting day
Day 1: Tutorial – Critic of past films, story in wildlife film-making
Day 2: Workshop – Developing and writing your story
Day 3: Practical – Travel to and orientation to Reserve (D1)
Day 4 – Practical – Filming day at Reserve (D2)
Day 5 – Practical – Filming day at Reserve (D3)
Day 6 – Practical – Filming day at Reserve (D4)
Day 7 – Practical – Filming day at Reserve (D5)
Day 1 – Practical – Filming day at Reserve (D6)
Day 2 – Practical – Filming day at Reserve (D7)
Day 3 – Practical – Packing day and return to Mossel Bay (D8)
Day 4 – Media logging and content orginisation (D9)
Day 5 – Non-linear editing of footage
Day 1 – Non-linear editing of footage
Day 2 – Non-linear editing of footage
Day 3: Non-linear editing of footage
Day 4: Soundscape building, colour correction & grading
Day 5: Pitching & selling, exportation of production, evening showing