Jackie Griffin (Company CEO): 084 419 8511
Ryan Johnson (Owner): 072 629 6669 (not to be shared)
Fiona Ayerst (Owner): 082 604 5893 (not to be shared)
Jessica Escobar (Blue Wilderness Manager): 083 654 8511, jessica@bluewilderness.co.za. only until the end of Nov 2021
Monkeyland KZN (service provider): Paula 066 479 6138, info@monkeyland.co.za
Jackie Griffin (Company CEO): 084 419 8511
Ryan Johnson (Owner): 072 629 6669 (not to be shared)
Fiona Ayerst (Owner): 082 604 5893 (not to be shared)
Reel van der Merwe(Boat Provider): 066 4300354
Elton Polly (boat provider):
Monkeyland (service provider): Vijver Jonck,72 613 2261 info@monkeyland.co.za
What are my working hours
Working days / hours on the program are Monday to Friday, 7AM (sometimes earlier depending on launch) to 5PM. One hour for lunch and other coffee breaks as needed throughout the day. Due to the unpredictability of the ocean conditions, you may be required to move work days to the weekends and then treat weekday bad weather days as weekend days. Optional. You can optionally drive and guide weekend trips for additional cash payments. This time and effort is entirely separate from your course instructor work
Food and catering for Course Instructors / Field Specialists
Whilst working on the course you will be entitled to eat standard meals provided by Blue Wilderness at the student house. This includes breakfast, lunch, dinner. If you choose not to eat these meals, no additional compensation will be offered.
Can I film whilst diving on the program
During your time diving on the course, you will only be able to film only using a course GoPro (or equivalent camera). If you would like to use course cameras or personal cameras, then this is only allowed on any weekend diving you do privately or through the course, by prior agreement with either Fiona Ayerst or Jackie Griffin.
On course, filming using the Gopro is for the following purposes
What are the program locations and expeditions?
Most expeditions are to the sea with Blue Wilderness. However pools sessions will be organised and two trips to nature reserves.
Accommodation
If required you will be provided with accommodation whilst working on the program. This will be in a shared room with a maximum of one other course instructor or field specialist. If you choose not to take advantage of accommodation offer, no additional compensation will be paid for your own accommodation.
Payment Terms
Basic payment will occur on last working day of month following compleation of program. Bonus payment will occur when (a) student videos are successfully uploaded onto Africa Media Youtube channel / UWvideo playlist and link of proof is sent to company CEO amd (b) all expense slips have been submitted to Company CFO. As instructor is freelance postion, no taxes or benefits will be withhold
Welcome
This set of tabs outlines the daily activities and important notes (goals) that Course directors, instructors and field specialists need to adhere to during the teaching of this program. When teaching, please be cognisant of the following important fact. Days will be lost to weather conditions. In such cases, such lost days will be counted as ‘bad weather days’, and weekend days will be used to make up for lost days. Even though this can happen it is, vital that the course is taught in the order that it is presented here. Everything has been compiled and set out to flow naturally in the correct order. If you mix it up it will be a mess.
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 1 Key Goals of Day
| (Lecture 1 - Orientation). Orientation to program, life at Africa Media, weekend activities, covid, how the program runs, how meals and board run, safety etc. . (Administration). Student gives over divers licence for inspection and reads and signs liability waivers for program | (Lecture 2 - Intro to underwater videography) including specific challenges of combining film plus SCUBA plus limited time in the water. The aim is to get them to start thinking about the program.
(Workshop 1 - SCUBA Setup) gear all issued, fitted, and have the students happy with it (tested). Ensure students put the gear away for themselves in an accessible yet safe place, and then look after it and use the same gear throughout the month. |
Day 2 Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Introduction). Shore entry dive at The Dollosse. Go through various buoyancy techniques, check on students, make certain happy with gear. evaluate skills levels. If skills tune-up is required then discuss how and when . (Clean up). Wash gear, dry gear, get bottles ready for pumping. Train students to look after and clean so as to be ready, dry, cleaned for the next day diving | (Workshop 2. Data management). Take students through how to download footage and manage content specifically - creating folders, pulling content off cards, formatting cards (in camera) and organising data, etc. ensure the stability of shots as this was the main aim.
(Lesson recap - Stability). Recap on practical techniques on improving stability. Specifically on the three areas 1. Diving techniques (long fins, correct buoyancy, kicking technique reading swells and current) , 2. Camera setup (high res, wide handles, slow motion, balanced housing) and 3. Post production (warp stabiliser) . |
Day 3 Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop 3- Camera use on Farm). Issue of big cameras and take students onto the farm to practise their use on farm animals. Particular focus on buttons and functions. (NB. If already compleated Wildlife Film - then change the focus and in particular focus on handheld stability, comparing and controlling frame rates, and working with a constant F-Stop (F 8) via and adjusting ND, ISO / Gain. Trying to maximise depth of field. | . (Lecture 6 - Kit & Maintainance). Lecture on cameras with a focus on extra kit for shooting underwater. Special attention on the challenges of water when looking after electrical equipment . (Lesson Recap - Cameras Specifications). Students to recap on camera settings whilst working with cameras. Specifically (a) depth of field, (b) frame rate, (c) zoom, (d) exposure, (f) focus. |
Day 4- Floater (movable if bad weather) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Stability). Boat Dive - Mitch's Reef. Students to take Gopros on handles to film. Focus on (a) diving techniques for stability, (b) reading currents/swells, (c) looking for crevices (out of current) to ensure the stability of shots
(Dive - Stability 2nd). Boat Dive - Fluffies Reef or similar. Students to take Gopros on handles to film. Focus on techniques in different depths. But continue to focus on the above techniques. Instructor to talk about solutions to problems on SIT time, between the dives (following observation). e.g. get best buoyancy to allow reduced kicking and shaking.
(Practical - Download & Maintainance). Download footage of day, along with gopro footage from previous day. Clean cameras and place battereies on charge. Ensure cards formated in camera. . . | (Practical - Camera parts). Issue 'big' cameras and take students through the different parts (housing, camera, dome, arms, lights, buttons). Focus on maintenance and best practices (rinse, testing before dive, not opening after checked by the instructor, charging batteries, etc. )
(Lesson Recap - Editing). Instructor to take students through workshop on editing techniques, including pointing out tutorials for students to complete in own time. Students to use previous footage (go pro / farm) to produce a couple of short sequences. Novice Students - Movment onto timeline, adjusting edit points, organising content etc.
Experienced Students - Control framerates, applying warp stabilisers, colour correction - adding reds etc. (Lec 7 - Sequences). Lecture on how to shoot sequences and the importance of it underwater. Also working through the different kinds of underwater shots required.
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Day 5 - Floater Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop 3 - Monkeyland Workshop). Trip to monkey land and birds of Eden. Filming sequences training and also effecting stable-shooting without the use of a tripod. . | (Practical - Monekland Workshop). Trip to monkeyland and birds of Eden. Filming sequences training and also effecting stable shooting without the use of a tripod. . (DataManagement). Download and store content after trip. Prepare cameras (batteries, lens, cards) for nxt trip. |
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 6 (Monday) Key Goals of Day
| Dive 4 - Snorkel at Rockpool). First dive with large camera in local rockpool. Focus on wide angle and controlling camera underwater, ensuring lens is clean, knowing buttons. . (Dive 5 - Shore entry). Shore entry SCUBA dive at Dolises. Focus on adding lights into the situation and controlling these lights underwater during the dive. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Lec 9 - Editing Sequences) - Lecture on building a sequence on a timeline. specfically ordering wides, mids, closeups. choosing in and out points, utilising video channels to allow easy manipulation.
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Day 7 (Tuesday) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 6 - Boat Reef Dive ). Big camera reef dive - focus on filming and SCUBA diving techniques with large camera - filming wildlife subjects. Practical training on entry and exit with cameras, and safety of camera on boat. . (Dive 7 - Boat Reef Dive). Big camera reef dive - focus on filming and SCUBA diving techniques with large camera - filming wildlife subjects. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Lecture 10 - Colour Correction). Lecture on post production colour correction. Specifically correcting for white balance, adjusting colours curves, working shadows, highlights, adjusting saturation, and matching colours throughout . (Editing Workshop - Colour Correction). Students to construct a single sequence using previous skills on (a) stablility, (b) sequencing, and add to it colour correction techniques. Exported and critiqued by class. |
Day 8 (Wednesday) - Week 2 Floater Key Goals of Day
| . (Workshop - Story). Boat Dive - Fluffys Reef. Students to take Gopros on handles to film. Focus on techniques in diffreent depth. But continue to focus on same techniques. Instructor to talk about solutions to problems between the dive (following observation). e.g. get best buoyancy to allow reduced kicking and shaking, | . . (Workshop- Underwater Communication). Students break into pairs and conduct training (using cheat sheet) of underwater signals to get footage of them together with farm animals. |
Day 9 (Thursday) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 8 - Talent in Rockpool). Snorkel Dive in rockpool practising communicating with talent and filming talent with various subjects doing stuff. . (Dive 9 - Talent at Doluser). Baited Shark dive with talent needing to fulfil mission of placing shark in tonic immobility, and camera person collecting all footage to build a sequence and communicating with talent. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Lecture 14). Lecture on building sequences with multiple subjects and the ease of working between subjects to edit smooth sequence ending in goodaction two shots. . (Workshop - Editing). Students to edit a sequience of tonic immobility of sharks underwater. In which a short story is made of a human talent SCUBA diving and capturing the shot underwater of putting a shark into tonic immobiliaty. . (Lecture 15 - Ethics). Lecture on how to interact with animals for the best interaction and to also ensure an ethical experience. Namely not chasing animals, staying low on reef, not breaking sillioutes. |
Day 10 (Friday) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 10 - Talent on SCUBA). SCUBA dive at Fluffys reef with talent filming each otherat camera operators. Namely studenting taking 10 minute turns as talent, and 10 minutes as camera operator. . (Dive 11 - Raggie SCUBA). SCUBA at point to hunt for Ragged tooth sharks to film. Also focus on staying low, keeping calm to collect content. training from ethics lecture (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, . | (Workshop - Editing). Students to edit a sequence of ragged tooth sharks underwater with option of bringing in human talent. . |
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 11 - (Free diving land) - Floater Key Goals of Day
| (Lesson - Free diving) - Lecture on the theory behind free diving and holding your breath
| (Workshop - Freediving Land) - Land based practical on free diving breath holding and testing the ability of students to hold breath on static and dynamic apnea. |
Day 12 - (Shark Diving)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Cage Diving). Students to join WSA cage diving trip. To film with gopro on handle at high frame rates of sharks. Topside to film with personal camera if they want. . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of batteries (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, . | (Edit) Start white shark cage diving scene with particular emphasis of shark - and realise limitations without b-roll, other subjects and perspective in shots
(Lesson - perspective) Recap on perspective and b-roll lesson. Will be used over next days |
Day 13 - (Free diving water) - Floater
Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop - Pratical on duckdive). Session at dolosers to practise duck diving and maintaining depth on a free dive at the dolersa. Specifically on techniques, and correctly weighting yourself to be neturally buoyant on free dive. . | (Workshop - Freediving pool). two hour pool session on practising free diving techniques for static (max 3 minutes) and dynamic apnea (max 50m). . . |
Day 14 (Shark Diving)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Cage Dive). Students to join WSA cage diving trip. To film with gopro on handle at high frame rates of sharks. Topside to film b-roll of bait handler, faces, sharks. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of batteries (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Edit) - White Shark Cage Diving scene with particular emphasis of using b-roll and perspective shots to fill out the scene. . |
Day 15 - (B-Roll / Perspective)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Perspective) - Boat dive on a reef with a lot of structure (walls, gullies, reefs). Dive to collect footage where you create shots with a subject, foreground and background content. Maximise perspective. Also focus on content that has perspective without major subject - to be used as B-Roll . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of batteries (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Edit) - Boat dive on a reef with a lot of structure (walls, gullies, reefs). Dive to collect footage where you create shots with a subject, foreground and background content. Maximise perspective. Use b-roll footage to insert into an existing timeline as effective b-roll |
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 16 (Talent D1) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 18 - Raggie shark dive). Dive at Raggie Point to film and locate large raggies. Focus is on positioning low on the reef and allowing the raggies to apprach and find the diver. . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Workshop - Talent & Communication). Recap on lesson on working with talent and communications. Students break into pairs and conduct training (using cheat sheet) of underwater signals to get footage of them together with farm animals. |
Day 17 (Talent D2)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Communication Dive). Students to do dive filming talent (each other) and using communication signals to direct talent (Dive - (Talent dive) Dive at Mitches reef or fluffies. Aim to film a sequence of talent cleaning reef by collecting fishing line. . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Workshop - Editing). Have students work personally on building and editing sequence from the pervious two days diving with talent. |
Day 18 (Talent D3)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Water Entry Dive). Specialist training dive working on filming water entry to a diver from multiple angles. Namely self filming (gopro), waiting submerged, and boat frame. . | (Workshop Editing). Finish editing a sequence using human talent and fishing line, water entry to cleanup a reef. Include fish and b-roll (Workshop - Soundscapes). Workshop on editing techniques to build multiple audio tracks (voice, narrator, ambinat, music) and mixing them correctly onto a sequence . |
Day 19 (Pitching & Stock) - Floater
Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop Pitching). Recap on pitching lesson. Prepare a personal pitch to present the pitch via (a) a written pitch treatment, and (b) and standup pitch.
(Workshop Stock). Recap on stock footage licencing and exporting . Work with students on choosen stockclips | (Workshop - Stock Footage). Students set up profiles on two libraries and upload content. Namely - Pond5 and Nature Footage. Get best stock clips uploaded. |
Day 20 (Editing & Presentation)
Key Goals of Day
| (Editing). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, . | (Exporting). Students to export sequences, and stock clips from their month of diving. Aim to show some of the sequences that evening. . |
Welcome
This set of tabs outlines the daily activities and important notes (goals) that Course directors, instructors and field specialists need to adhere to during the teaching of this program. When teaching, please be cognisant of the following important fact. Days will be lost to weather conditions. In such cases, such lost days will be counted as ‘bad weather days’, and weekend days will be used to make up for lost days. Even though this can happen it is, vital that the course is taught in the order that it is presented here. Everything has been compiled and set out to flow naturally in the correct order. If you mix it up it will be a mess.
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 1 Key Goals of Day
| (Lecture 1 - Orientation). Orientation to program, life at Africa Media, weekend activities, covid, how the program runs, how meals and board run, safety etc. . (Administration). Student gives over divers licence for inspection and reads and signs liability waivers for program | (Lecture 2 - Intro to underwater videography) including specific challenges of combining film plus SCUBA plus limited time in the water. The aim is to get them to start thinking about the program.
(Workshop 1 - SCUBA Setup) gear all issued, fitted, and have the students happy with it (tested). Ensure students put the gear away for themselves in an accessible yet safe place, and then look after it and use the same gear throughout the month. |
Day 2 Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Introduction). Shore entry dive at The Dollosse. Go through various buoyancy techniques, check on students, make certain happy with gear. evaluate skills levels. If skills tune-up is required then discuss how and when . (Clean up). Wash gear, dry gear, get bottles ready for pumping. Train students to look after and clean so as to be ready, dry, cleaned for the next day diving | (Workshop 2. Data management). Take students through how to download footage and manage content specifically - creating folders, pulling content off cards, formatting cards (in camera) and organising data, etc. ensure the stability of shots as this was the main aim.
(Lesson recap - Stability). Recap on practical techniques on improving stability. Specifically on the three areas 1. Diving techniques (long fins, correct buoyancy, kicking technique reading swells and current) , 2. Camera setup (high res, wide handles, slow motion, balanced housing) and 3. Post production (warp stabiliser) . |
Day 3 Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop 3- Camera use on Farm). Issue of big cameras and take students onto the farm to practise their use on farm animals. Particular focus on buttons and functions. (NB. If already compleated Wildlife Film - then change the focus and in particular focus on handheld stability, comparing and controlling frame rates, and working with a constant F-Stop (F 8) via and adjusting ND, ISO / Gain. Trying to maximise depth of field. | . (Lecture 6 - Kit & Maintainance). Lecture on cameras with a focus on extra kit for shooting underwater. Special attention on the challenges of water when looking after electrical equipment . (Lesson Recap - Cameras Specifications). Students to recap on camera settings whilst working with cameras. Specifically (a) depth of field, (b) frame rate, (c) zoom, (d) exposure, (f) focus. |
Day 4- Floater (movable if bad weather) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Stability). Boat Dive - Mitch's Reef. Students to take Gopros on handles to film. Focus on (a) diving techniques for stability, (b) reading currents/swells, (c) looking for crevices (out of current) to ensure the stability of shots
(Dive - Stability 2nd). Boat Dive - Fluffies Reef or similar. Students to take Gopros on handles to film. Focus on techniques in different depths. But continue to focus on the above techniques. Instructor to talk about solutions to problems on SIT time, between the dives (following observation). e.g. get best buoyancy to allow reduced kicking and shaking.
(Practical - Download & Maintainance). Download footage of day, along with gopro footage from previous day. Clean cameras and place battereies on charge. Ensure cards formated in camera. . . | (Practical - Camera parts). Issue 'big' cameras and take students through the different parts (housing, camera, dome, arms, lights, buttons). Focus on maintenance and best practices (rinse, testing before dive, not opening after checked by the instructor, charging batteries, etc. )
(Lesson Recap - Editing). Instructor to take students through workshop on editing techniques, including pointing out tutorials for students to complete in own time. Students to use previous footage (go pro / farm) to produce a couple of short sequences. Novice Students - Movment onto timeline, adjusting edit points, organising content etc.
Experienced Students - Control framerates, applying warp stabilisers, colour correction - adding reds etc. (Lec 7 - Sequences). Lecture on how to shoot sequences and the importance of it underwater. Also working through the different kinds of underwater shots required.
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Day 5 - Floater Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop 3 - Monkeyland Workshop). Trip to monkey land and birds of Eden. Filming sequences training and also effecting stable-shooting without the use of a tripod. . | (Practical - Monekland Workshop). Trip to monkeyland and birds of Eden. Filming sequences training and also effecting stable shooting without the use of a tripod. . (DataManagement). Download and store content after trip. Prepare cameras (batteries, lens, cards) for nxt trip. |
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 6 (Monday) Key Goals of Day
| Dive 4 - Snorkel at Rockpool). First dive with large camera in local rockpool. Focus on wide angle and controlling camera underwater, ensuring lens is clean, knowing buttons. . (Dive 5 - Shore entry). Shore entry SCUBA dive at Dolises. Focus on adding lights into the situation and controlling these lights underwater during the dive. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Lec 9 - Editing Sequences) - Lecture on building a sequence on a timeline. specfically ordering wides, mids, closeups. choosing in and out points, utilising video channels to allow easy manipulation.
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Day 7 (Tuesday) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 6 - Boat Reef Dive ). Big camera reef dive - focus on filming and SCUBA diving techniques with large camera - filming wildlife subjects. Practical training on entry and exit with cameras, and safety of camera on boat. . (Dive 7 - Boat Reef Dive). Big camera reef dive - focus on filming and SCUBA diving techniques with large camera - filming wildlife subjects. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Lecture 10 - Colour Correction). Lecture on post production colour correction. Specifically correcting for white balance, adjusting colours curves, working shadows, highlights, adjusting saturation, and matching colours throughout . (Editing Workshop - Colour Correction). Students to construct a single sequence using previous skills on (a) stablility, (b) sequencing, and add to it colour correction techniques. Exported and critiqued by class. |
Day 8 (Wednesday) - Week 2 Floater Key Goals of Day
| . (Workshop - Story). Boat Dive - Fluffys Reef. Students to take Gopros on handles to film. Focus on techniques in diffreent depth. But continue to focus on same techniques. Instructor to talk about solutions to problems between the dive (following observation). e.g. get best buoyancy to allow reduced kicking and shaking, | . . (Workshop- Underwater Communication). Students break into pairs and conduct training (using cheat sheet) of underwater signals to get footage of them together with farm animals. |
Day 9 (Thursday) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 8 - Talent in Rockpool). Snorkel Dive in rockpool practising communicating with talent and filming talent with various subjects doing stuff. . (Dive 9 - Talent at Doluser). Baited Shark dive with talent needing to fulfil mission of placing shark in tonic immobility, and camera person collecting all footage to build a sequence and communicating with talent. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Lecture 14). Lecture on building sequences with multiple subjects and the ease of working between subjects to edit smooth sequence ending in goodaction two shots. . (Workshop - Editing). Students to edit a sequience of tonic immobility of sharks underwater. In which a short story is made of a human talent SCUBA diving and capturing the shot underwater of putting a shark into tonic immobiliaty. . (Lecture 15 - Ethics). Lecture on how to interact with animals for the best interaction and to also ensure an ethical experience. Namely not chasing animals, staying low on reef, not breaking sillioutes. |
Day 10 (Friday) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 10 - Talent on SCUBA). SCUBA dive at Fluffys reef with talent filming each otherat camera operators. Namely studenting taking 10 minute turns as talent, and 10 minutes as camera operator. . (Dive 11 - Raggie SCUBA). SCUBA at point to hunt for Ragged tooth sharks to film. Also focus on staying low, keeping calm to collect content. training from ethics lecture (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, . | (Workshop - Editing). Students to edit a sequence of ragged tooth sharks underwater with option of bringing in human talent. . |
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 11 - (Free diving land) - Floater Key Goals of Day
| (Lesson - Free diving) - Lecture on the theory behind free diving and holding your breath
| (Workshop - Freediving Land) - Land based practical on free diving breath holding and testing the ability of students to hold breath on static and dynamic apnea. |
Day 12 - (Shark Diving)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Cage Diving). Students to join WSA cage diving trip. To film with gopro on handle at high frame rates of sharks. Topside to film with personal camera if they want. . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of batteries (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, . | (Edit) Start white shark cage diving scene with particular emphasis of shark - and realise limitations without b-roll, other subjects and perspective in shots
(Lesson - perspective) Recap on perspective and b-roll lesson. Will be used over next days |
Day 13 - (Free diving water) - Floater
Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop - Pratical on duckdive). Session at dolosers to practise duck diving and maintaining depth on a free dive at the dolersa. Specifically on techniques, and correctly weighting yourself to be neturally buoyant on free dive. . | (Workshop - Freediving pool). two hour pool session on practising free diving techniques for static (max 3 minutes) and dynamic apnea (max 50m). . . |
Day 14 (Shark Diving)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Cage Dive). Students to join WSA cage diving trip. To film with gopro on handle at high frame rates of sharks. Topside to film b-roll of bait handler, faces, sharks. (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of batteries (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Edit) - White Shark Cage Diving scene with particular emphasis of using b-roll and perspective shots to fill out the scene. . |
Day 15 - (B-Roll / Perspective)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Perspective) - Boat dive on a reef with a lot of structure (walls, gullies, reefs). Dive to collect footage where you create shots with a subject, foreground and background content. Maximise perspective. Also focus on content that has perspective without major subject - to be used as B-Roll . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of batteries (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Edit) - Boat dive on a reef with a lot of structure (walls, gullies, reefs). Dive to collect footage where you create shots with a subject, foreground and background content. Maximise perspective. Use b-roll footage to insert into an existing timeline as effective b-roll |
Morning | Afternoon | |
Day 16 (Talent D1) Key Goals of Day
| (Dive 18 - Raggie shark dive). Dive at Raggie Point to film and locate large raggies. Focus is on positioning low on the reef and allowing the raggies to apprach and find the diver. . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Workshop - Talent & Communication). Recap on lesson on working with talent and communications. Students break into pairs and conduct training (using cheat sheet) of underwater signals to get footage of them together with farm animals. |
Day 17 (Talent D2)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Communication Dive). Students to do dive filming talent (each other) and using communication signals to direct talent (Dive - (Talent dive) Dive at Mitches reef or fluffies. Aim to film a sequence of talent cleaning reef by collecting fishing line. . (Cleanup). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, | (Workshop - Editing). Have students work personally on building and editing sequence from the pervious two days diving with talent. |
Day 18 (Talent D3)
Key Goals of Day
| (Dive - Water Entry Dive). Specialist training dive working on filming water entry to a diver from multiple angles. Namely self filming (gopro), waiting submerged, and boat frame. . | (Workshop Editing). Finish editing a sequence using human talent and fishing line, water entry to cleanup a reef. Include fish and b-roll (Workshop - Soundscapes). Workshop on editing techniques to build multiple audio tracks (voice, narrator, ambinat, music) and mixing them correctly onto a sequence . |
Day 19 (Pitching & Stock) - Floater
Key Goals of Day
| (Workshop Pitching). Recap on pitching lesson. Prepare a personal pitch to present the pitch via (a) a written pitch treatment, and (b) and standup pitch.
(Workshop Stock). Recap on stock footage licencing and exporting . Work with students on choosen stockclips | (Workshop - Stock Footage). Students set up profiles on two libraries and upload content. Namely - Pond5 and Nature Footage. Get best stock clips uploaded. |
Day 20 (Editing & Presentation)
Key Goals of Day
| (Editing). Clean up of cameras, charging of battereis (camera and lights), rinsing and drying of housing, . | (Exporting). Students to export sequences, and stock clips from their month of diving. Aim to show some of the sequences that evening. . |
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This is an introduction assessment dive for the instructor to determine the ability and competence of the student. It is also an opportunity for the student to detect any problems with their equipment and weighting.
Briefing – It is important for instructor to let students know theey will be accessing the quality of the students buoyancy and competence. Specifically talk to students about using lungs for buoyancy, not having arms waving about, and trying to relax on the dive. Also if any equipment failures exist, then as we will be shallow we can surface and fix.
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This is a dive with Gopros. The goal is to take students through boat entries, and then when in the water focus on techniques to shoot stable footag. SPecfically using two hands, flutter kicking, positioning to the current.
Briefing – It is important for instructor to let students knowpurpose isss to get used to not having hands free and to focus on stability through good dive technique and letting subjects do the acting.
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The aims of this dive is:
This is a dive with Gopros. The goal is to take students through boat entries, and then when in the water focus on techniques to shoot stable footage. This will be deeper dive, so students need to recognise this and see how it affects dive duration, opportunity to film and buoyancy.
Briefing – Instructor to brief on deeper dive, focusing on effeciency – still being relaxed, but capturing content in a smaller window. Also to continute to focus on stablity. Instructor to point out individual areas for student to work on based on previous dive.
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This is a snorkel with the larger cameras and withut lights. Aim is to allow students to get filming with the camera but to have opportunity to standup and talk to instructor about issues they are having with focus, exposure, record, balancing etc. Also important for students to ensure that camera is working correctly and balanced.
Briefing – Instructor to brief on why snorkel – to allow communication. To work out any issues in buttons and functioning camera.
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This is a shore entry dive with big camera. Usually doliser or mitches reef. Aim is to introduce students to filming with the big cameras, using the lights, in a safe and secure zone. Whilst remaining to focus on stability. Now students are working with exposure, iso and focus
Briefing – Instructor to brief on why shallow scuba – namely to get used to big camera in sheltered area. Focus on learning buttons and in particular exposure, focus, and recording.
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This is a boat entry dive with big camera. Take through protocol of getting cameras into and out of water (passing), and protecting them on the boat (bags, towels, dome covers). On dive, students need to start readinh the currents and looking out for ways to film up at subjects and reading the environment – sun, currents, surge, visibility.
Briefing – Instructor to brief on boat protocl wilth cameras. Also on dive that will not move but find a subject and focus on one or two subjects for dive. Thinking of sequences – wide, mediums and if possible closeups. Also reading the environment (sun, surge, current, visibility) to achive goal.
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The aims of this dive is:
This is a deeper boat entry dive with big camera. On dive, students need to continue reading the currents and looking out for ways to film up at subjects and reading the environment – sun, currents, surge, visibility.
Briefing – Instructor to person recap on previous dive. Also brief that next dive will be deeper and affect buoyancy (lose it more), and to continue with finding subjects and focus on getting all the shots of that subject. (Wides, mediums, close).
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