Teaching

I have taught animation and related subjects in various capacities to various age groups in a variety of settings and countries. I am looking for more teaching work at either youth or adult level.

Adult, Higher/Further Education

Professional Practice Workshop – for animation students in their final year of university, looking at showreels, business cards, websites, CV’s. How to approach people for work, rates of pay, being freelance, other areas of related work.
Workshop on Writing for Animation – 2 day workshop in Korea for animation students looking to develop short films for festivals, series and long form.
Lectures in Independent Animation – Korea (and panel discussion) and Okinowa (introductory talk for the general public).
Course on Digital Media – power point presentations.
Workshop on Multiplane Animation Techniques – Tel Aviv Animation festival.
Workshop on Direct Method Animation – Architects winterschool, Dublin. Hand painting and deconstructing 16mm historic footage.

Primary

Flick Books, years 3 to 9 – to include the whole school, we did an animated landscape for the younger groups, so that they could all get to make leaves, flowers, butterflies and so on, and could move them about on the board quite easily too. The middle years did flick books, as did the older ones, but also animated themselves and objects in the room.
Animation for Articulation – a mixed group of boys from years 6, 7 and 8 who were not very engaged with school. We did a 16 week workshop (1 session per week), looking at speaking and listening skills. This included story telling and listening, character creation (drawn, clay, model, group made), writing for others to illustrate, animating workshops and two full animated films. The boys did all the work on these films, including writing, storyboarding, set building, character creation, animating, photography, editing, music and sound track. The films were then screening to the rest of the year groups with popcorn. The workshop was planned, assessed and evaluated.
Drawing for Fun, and other inset days – for primary school teachers who wanted to be more confident with their own drawing and image making skills and so be more encouraging to their students. Also, to compliment other workshops, film making workshops going through a simplified process of making a live action film, planning, shooting, capturing, editing, sound, export final movie.

Secondary

Science Shorts – film making workshops to engage young people in science subjects. They were asked to take one topic from their curriculum and make a film about it. We assisted the participants by showing them how to do certain tasks, like planning and story telling, setting up the camera, capturing, editing, sound, export. They then did all of this themselves to make their films. The films were shown as part of a youth day project at the local cinema.
Dance Shorts – as above, but the topic was dance.

Public Workshops

Animation Improvisation Fun – at various venues around Slough, using cut out pivoting models on an image background. These were open to adults and children alike.
Moving Image Mela – similar to the above but for the Same Difference Film Festival in Slough.
Cut Outs and Free Software Fun – similar to the above projects but for the Stoke Your Fires Film Festival in Stoke on Trent.