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Wildlife Sound Recording
This weekend course aims to teach you the skills necessary and give you hands-on experience with some of the latest equipment. The course is suitable for aspiring wildlife film-makers, camera operators, camera assistants, producers and sound recordists. It is taught by Chris Watson, one of the world's top wildlife sound specialists who regularly works for the BBC.
No experience or equipment is required, but do bring your sound recording equipment and/or camcorder if you have any. Itinerary
Saturday:
7pm - evening meal served Sunday:
Chris Watson (pictured right - experienced sound recordist specialising in wildlife - Chris also runs courses in wildlife sound recording and post production at the BBC Natural History Unit, and teaches location sound and sound design at the university of fine arts in stockholm. He has worked closely with two of the most high-profile natural history presenters in the business, David Attenborough and Bill Oddie. He is Oddie's favourite sound man and the TV veteran says of Watson: "I don't know anyone who is so intense yet so splendidly frivolous." Chris became a sound recordist in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television and is now widely regarded as one of the most creative sound artists in the business. His recent credits include the hugely popular Springwatch and Autumnwatch, and he received the Wildlife Film Asia Award for the BBC's Galapagos: Born of Fire. Watson also creates for the radio, with credits including Soundscape: The Sea Swallow, Watersong and The Estuary all for BBC Radio 4. See www.chriswatson.net)
Piers Warren (pictured left) - Principal of Wildeye - conservationist, writer, photographer and teacher of wildlife film-making. Founder of Filmmakers for Conservation, Executive Producer of wildlife-film.com and Editor of Wildlife Film News. Author of Careers in Wildlife Film-making and Go Wild with Your Camcorder - How to Make Wildlife Films.Through Wildeye, Piers leads wildlife tours and training expeditions around the world
Costs: £220 per person Dates: Booking: Initially contact info@wildeye.co.uk to check if any places are left. If so you will be put on a short list and required to pay a deposit to secure your place. Places are limited - so you are advised to book early. View our Terms and Conditions for Booking Courses.
On 31 January 2007 - The Guardian featured an article on our tutor Chris Watson and the wildlife sound recording course we ran in December 2006 click here to view online Comments from previous students: What a great weekend. I came with very little knowledge of wildlife sound recording except I knew I wanted to add this extra dimension to my work and left realising the huge creative possibilities. A great credit to you for once again producing another fulfilling course. Chris has been fantastic, his willingness to share and his sheer enjoyment for sound was wonderful. I've come away feeling as if I've been given a new toy. Once again I'm very impressed at the quality of the weekend. I've learned to listen and trust my ears more I really enjoyed the weekend and did indeed make some new friends. I would recommend the course and your company to anybody I certainly enjoyed the weekend, and got a lot from it. I look forward to attending some of the other sessions that you run. Just wanted to say thanks for the wildlife sound weekend, I thought it was superb, and I really enjoyed myself.
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