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My own practice is based on filmmaking, however as a specialist film and video technician, I teach the technical elements of filmmaking to the students at UAL CSM. I start off by teaching them how to visualise the production and then we go through the process of reverse engineering to bring their ideas into reality.…

My tutor Karen Matthewman and I had a debrief about what happened during my workshop with my peer observer Faust Peneyra. I provided my lesson plan which included the learning outcomes for the workshop. The Cinematography workshop was created recently, to be the perfect followup workshop to the ones I already offered as ‘working with…

In the UK, our higher education system is one that is based on the method of Learning Outcomes, circa 1997 this approach was investigated in The Dearing Report. The Learning Outcome method has many benefits, that can lead to opportunities, but don’t necessarily mean that it is the best way of learning. I was assigned…

During our group session for the Micro Teach, I was able to take part in many different object-based learning sessions from a variety of disciplines. My sessions aim was to create various visual scenarios using coloured light and imagination, to give participants an idea as to how lighting is designed for film. I specifically chose…

I was assigned text 3 (Osler Et Al, 2019) A/R/Tographer: Story telling the self as pedagogic practice. This was a useful document to bring into account the individuals experience as an artist, who uses their life experience to research, create art and then disseminate their findings to students, which in turn gives more credibility to…

The piece of text I chose to read for workshop 2 was Sams 2016 How do art and design technicians conceive of their role in Higher Education? I found that ultimately technicians role is one of teaching technical skillsets which are highly desirable in the industry. However Technicians aren’t given support on order to further their skillset…

I was assigned text 3 on the a/r/tographer.It took me a little while to understand what the A/R/Tography does which is to Research, Practice, and Teach.The fact that 4 different people were given the opportunity to voice there process of their own practice as a was helpful, because in the beginning much like Trish I…

My name… My name is Leila Ghouri. I am a Specialist Technician at Central Saint Martin’s. I specialise in Video Performance and Screen- and I’m exploring the role that generative AI plays in media content.