Koh Tao Underwater Video trainee Jonathan reports on his 3 months in Thailand

Hello everyone!! I've been on this stunning island for 3 months nearly!

I have loved every moment of it especially when i got my hands on the camera and got stuck into the filming!! I have a great passion for film and everything that i was taught at university and all the experience I have gained over the last five years was thrown right up in the air!

It's a completely new learning curve for me, its a very different style of filming and editing! The biggest gain I got out of the Oceans Below underwater video internship was the whole process of making the film for the open water students. As you are filming them, every shot you make is precise, you know what you want and you know what kind of shot you want in four or five shots time, you are always thinking ahead. When it comes to the editng you have all the shots ready to be put in the time-line with not much clipping or trimming, which for me made editing more enjoyable! I can't sit down for too long i get the fidgets!

Another cool aspect of the Koh Tao underwater videography training is the people you meet! They are so varied! It's especially good fun when you have a bunch of guys or gals playing up to the camera, it makes the day so much more enjoyable!

On occasions like that it's likely, after you have shown the video to them as the sun is setting in the background and you are sitting at a beach bar relaxing, [quite a picture isn't it], that you will end up going out and partying! Lots of good fun!!

Sadly my time is coming to an end here! I have had such an amazing time, met some amazing people and one day hopefully when I've had enough of whatever I'm doing in the years to come I'll come back and do a few months of filming open water students!!

It's a great course - do it!

One love - Jonathan McLaughlin

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