PADI Underwater Videography Course – Age 15+, 4 days, 5 dives – 22,400 THB

Get certified as a PADI Underwater Videographer with Narima Diving, Ko Lanta, Thailand.
Film, edit, record a soundtrack and burn to DVD your own underwater movie, using the latest camera and editing technology with the PADI Underwater Videography Specialty Course.

Other than taking someone diving, there’s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world. It’s underwater videography – motion imaging that allows you to share and document your underwater adventures. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again.
The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course introduces you to underwater video equipment and filming fundamentals, such as exposure, focus, shot types, moves, story line and shot sequencing. It takes you through the post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece. By the time you complete the course, you’ll have gone through the entire basic video production process.

The PADI U/W Videography Course is designed to introduce students, and would-be underwater cameramen, to the selection, use and care of underwater videography equipment and the principles of underwater video production.
In addition to the 3 dives required by PADI, we include a fourth dive to allow you to further improve your camera handling skills and buoyancy.
We also give you hands on training in post production, introducing you to video and audio editing techniques. By the end of the course you will be able to plan, film, edit and burn to DVD, your own underwater movie. We’ll happily give you advice on how to take the next steps once you’ve completed the course.

Day 1 – Dives 1 & 2

• Selection, maintenance, care and handling of underwater video equipment
• Scuba Diving practises while using underwater video equipment
• Exposure, focus and maintaining colour with video equipment underwater
• Shot types, lengths and camera moves
• Review of footage taken from dive 2 with pointers on how to improve
• Developing a storyline and shot sequencing
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and problems of underwater videography

Day 2 – Dives 3 & 4

• Film your underwater movie
• Introduction to audio and video editing techniques
• Review footage and plan edits
• Plan your soundtrack

Day 3 – Edit & Produce your movie

• Capture your footage onto the computer
• Construct and edit your material
• Add a soundtrack and synchronise to video
• Add and render effects
• Compress and Burn to DVD
• Relax and watch your masterpiece!

Did you know that the PADI Underwater Videographer certification credits as one of the 5 specialties required toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating?

Courses start every day, at a time to suit you. You can book now, or come in to see see us while you’re on holiday in Ko Lanta. We offer free transfers to and from your resort in Ko Lanta for any of our dive courses or daily dive trips.

We run PADI Underwater Videography Courses in English, German, Swedish and French. We run semi-supported courses in Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Thai. Please let us know if you require course materials in another language and we will order them for you.

The PADI U/W Videography Course costs 22,400 THB. This includes your camera rental.There may be a fuel surcharge to visit some of the further away dive sites if you choose to dive these sites during your course.
All our courses are taught in strict adherence to PADI Standards and prices include PADI certification fees and even a free t-shirt! On the dive boats, we supply breakfast, lunch, drinking water, soft drinks and fruit. We also provide a selection of fruit juices and towels on each trip.
We keep group sizes small to ensure you receive maximum benefit from your tuition (maximum 4 students per Instructor). This also minimises negative impact on the reefs. Our emphasis is on safety, fun and personal service within a relaxed and stress-free environment.

Beyond the PADI U/W Videography Course…
The PADI U/W Videography Course certification is only the beginning! You can use this course to complement any of our other PADI Speciality Courses:

• Deep Diver
• Enriched Air (NITROX)
• U/W Digital Photography
• Whale Shark Awareness
• Coral Reef Conservation
• Underwater Naturalist
• AWARE-Fish-ID
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Wreck Diver

Your next step may be to become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Master Scuba Diver or PADI Divemaster.

LIQUID LENSE – our Underwater Digital Imaging cademy offers longer Underwater Photography and Videography courses, aimed at people who want to take Underwater Digital Imaging a step further.

Or you can just keep diving Ko Lanta…! Narima Diving is ideally located in the South of Ko Lanta to offer shorter journey times on daily dive trips to some of the best dive sites in Thailand.
Dive the famous dive sites of Hin Daeng & Hin Muang, or visit Ko Haa, Ko Rok, Ko Phi Phi, the King Cruiser Wreck, Shark Point or Anemone Reef.