Scubaverse to Serialise Jeff Goodman’s Book, Action Camera Underwater Video Basics

Award-winning TV underwater Director/Cameraman and Editor-at-Large for Scubaverse, Jeff Goodman, is serialising, in part, six sections of his latest book, Action Camera Underwater Video Basics, on Scubaverse.com.

Jeff shares his experience and knowledge of underwater filming to encourage people to explore and experience the joys of underwater video. The book covers all you need to know for the novice through to the budding professional. It’s an easy, fun read—clear and well laid out, with great images taken from video frames.

The book covers cameras, lighting, planning, editing, filming techniques, and many more aspects of making high-standard videos.

Starting next week, the six sections in this series are:

• Choosing a camera

• Underwater lighting

• Buoyancy

• Pre-dive checks

• Filming techniques – Eyeline, camera position and angles

• Ethics of filming wildlife

For those who would like to own the complete book, a full list of contents is below:

1. Introduction

• A new way of diving

2. Responsible Filming

• Ethics of filming wildlife

• Protecting the marine habitat

• Buoyancy control for filming

3. Equipment

• Choosing a camera

• Accessories

4. Theory

• White balance

• Colour correction filters

• Lighting

• Focus

• Steady shots

• Exposure

• ISO

• PAL or NTSC?

5. Preparation and Maintenance

• Pre-dive gear checks

• Washing

• Travelling

6. Shoot Planning

• Dive planning for filming

• Pre- and post-dive filming

• Researching subjects

• Filming in cold water

• The difference between taking video and stills

7. Sequence Structure

• Basic sequences

• Storyboards and planning

8. Techniques

• Eyeline, camera position and angles

• Looking for things to film

• Shot duration

• Framing and composition

• Perspective

• Getting close to your subject

• Cutaways

9. Editing

• Thinking ‘edit’ while filming

• Video editing

• Choosing your edit programme

• Edit software overview

• My process

10. Stills

• Extracting stills from video

• Taking photos with a video camera

11. Confined Water Exercise

• Aim

• Safety

• Before entering the water

• Buoyancy exercise

• Short storyboard

• In-water video shoot

• Video review

• Edit

12. Open Water Exercise

• Aim

• Before entering the water

• Safety

• Videoing in open water

STARTING NEXT WEEK:

PART 1 of 6: Choosing a Camera

Action Camera Underwater Video Basics by Jeff Goodman is available now from DIVEDUP Publications:
https://www.divedup.com/shop/action-camera-underwater-video-basics-the-essential-guide-to-making-underwater-films/

About Jeff Goodman

Jeff is a multiple award-winning freelance TV cameraman/filmmaker and author. Having made both terrestrial and marine films, it is the world’s oceans and their conservation that hold his passion, with over 10,000 dives in his career. Having filmed for international television companies around the world and as author of two books on underwater filming, Jeff is Author/Programme Specialist for the Underwater Action Camera course for the RAID training agency.

Jeff has experienced the rapid advances in technology for diving as well as camera equipment, and has also experienced much of our planet’s marine life. He has witnessed, first-hand, many of the changes that have occurred to the wildlife and environment during that time.

Jeff runs bespoke underwater video and editing workshops for the complete beginner up to the budding professional.