Loads has been happening, including shooting Drone, Garage, and running a 48-hour film competition
Category Archives: Teaching
Podcasting and Oxford Writers
I recently spoke at the Oxford Writer’s Group about podcasting
Understanding History through Film
Those who know me know that I am obsessed with Film, and I love the app & website Letterboxd. I use Letterboxd as a teaching tool. I have a series of Lists to help students understand Genre and National Cinema. Now I have a new series: History on Film. I built these lists to help …
The Sheffield Global Cinema Festival
I’m attending the Sheffield Global Cinema Festival, 17-19 November. I’m running a workshop and hosting a Q+A. See you there!
Pearls entering into festivals
We’re submitting Pearls to film festivals. Here’s how to develop your own film festival strategy.
This is a blog post
Explaining a blog post to students of Web Design
Welcome 2020
2019 was a crazy year, where I was overworked. I am now working at Uxbridge College in the Creative Studies department, teaching media to 16-20-year-old students. Goals for 2020 include exploring more of the UK and expanding Action On The Side outside London. I’m also going to improve this website and the AOTS website. I’ve …
Vlog experiment
I’m trying a bit of an experiment over on my Raindance YouTube channel. This year I’m doing a short 1-minute vlog at the end of each teaching day, just going over what we covered that day. I think it could be useful for my students to see what was covered and when; I think it …
A summer (what?)
An update on what I’m doing this summer
The HND on IG
As we’re gearing up for year three of the Raindance Higher National Diploma, we’ve just created an Instagram page for the programme. There’s talk of running a Snapchat as well. I’m now running three Instagrams: Action On The Side and my personal IG. As part of the HND, we’ll be running rolling short social media marketing …
Busy Times 