Final project about turtle monitoring by student Lucien
Posted Aug 12th, 2021 by Elisabeth
Here’s a little update about the underwater video course I have been teaching the past 2 weeks…
The past 10 mornings or so I have been working with Lucien, who is 12 years old. Lucien has been on Koh Tao for 4 months now. Part of his home schooling program was a turtle monitoring project. Luckily on Koh Tao we have easy access to a bay where we often find Green turtles and the occassional Hawksbill feeding on the rubble.
We went freediving and snorkeling for a few days to find some turtles that reside in the bay. Lucien has done his basic Apnea Total freediver course with me a few months ago, so he is very comfortable holding his breath and diving down to 6-8 meters.
During his personalized video course I taught Lucien about underwater video shooting, story telling and editing footage in Premiere Pro. For his final project we decided to make a short vlog about his turtle project in which he had to go in front of the camera!

Once back on the computer we edited the interview, added some footage we shot the prvious days, added royalty free music, titles and color corrected the shots. Check out Lucien’s short vlog here below…
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