I’m a freelance director of commercials and short form content. I studied BA Graphic Design at the London College of Printing & MA Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art. I joined the BBC Television presentation design department working on the on screen promotion of the BBC, producing for example the BBC2 Idents, Christmas & major sports events. At the BBC and then at Red Bee Media I moved into directing high profile live action campaigns. Highlights included directing the BBC News Correspondents in numerous foreign locations & the Beijing Olympics film for BOCOG with an all Chinese crew completing all the post in Beijing.
Having held a full time jobs for over 22years, I decided in 2009 to go freelance to divided my time between directing and part time teaching: moving image & film. Throughout my career I’ve lectured, taught & given work experience to students on BA & MA courses including LCC, Kingston, University of South Wales, Falmouth & Ravensbourne. I’ve set projects to both small & large groups of students, teaching and giving feedback on a range of moving image projects. For example on MA Graphic course at LCC setting a project where the students had to make a film using a recording of spoken words / poetry, working with them on their pitches, storyboards and to the final film(s)
What I hope to gain from the Learning and Teaching for Art & Design course is a clearer knowledge of contemporary professional teaching practices. My experience to date has been through instinct rather than through any formal academic training. By the end of this course I hope to have better skills and understanding of teaching methods, which I can put into practice to help teach students and the next generation of Moving image Designers and Film makers. I also want to explore contemporary experiential learning practices to help recreate more authentic real life working experiences for students in and outside the university.