Free BBC Documentary Tutorial

While looking around the BBC Earth pages checking out various clips I stumbled upon the BBC Academy . Alongside the face-to-face courses available, it also offers some online courses, one of which is the "Good Shooting Guide:the basic principles". This guide is intended primarily as an overview for BBC employees, but it is available for everyone to use, and best of all it's free!

I have just started to have a look through it, and it offers a good introduction to the whole process of shooting a programme, from the pre-production planning stages, via shooting and sound recording to the final edit. It includes real life examples, and guides you through step by step. For those who are new to videography I think this could prove to be a useful guide. 

I will write a review of the course once I have completed it, detailing the sections which I found most useful, and include any informative screenshots.

Welcome

Helo and welcome to my blog.

I have recently been accepted for a place on a masters degree in Wildlife Documentary Production at the University of Salford. Most, if not all, of my shooting will be done in HD using Hybrid DSLRs, such as the Canon 7D and Canon 5d MkII. On these pages I hope to share my experiences of filming wildlife with DSLRs. I will share tips and clips about filming using these newcomers to the video market as I learn them. I plan that this blog will become an aide memoire for me, and a useful resource for any readers.

I plan on posting at least once a week with an update of what I've been up to, however I may post more or less frequently than this depending on my workload, and the amont of useful information I have to give.

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