The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust was established in Kenya in 1977 and since then has become “the most successful orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world” (Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, 2021). Whilst much of the focus of 2020 was on the human cost of the pandemic, awareness of environmental and conservation issues grew as people … More Global Media Interventions: Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Project Statement In my last four years at university, I have (accidently) found myself making documentary type projects for my film subjects, despite wanting to work more in narrative. Added to this I have spent the last three years working on the commercial side of filmmaking, producing marketing and corporate videos. For this project I … More BCM 304: Global Screen Project Final Work
This year has certainly been interesting. It seems as though each week has produced a multitude of news stories which sound as though they came out of a first-year creative writing class. In one of my areas of study – film and media – there has been much attention paid to how the industry will … More Green Screens: Sustainable Filmmaking
Produced as part of BCM313: Future of Work and attached below is a (slightly) older CV of mine, with narrative elements included to highlight values and ‘tell the story of me’.
I think it is fair to say that this year has been challenging for everyone. However – not to brag – but this semester has been pretty good for me. In general, I have been very distracted and whilst I might not have had my best semester work and marks wise, university has certainly kept … More Reflecting on Studying the Future of Work
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard For someone in their fourth year of university, I have a fair bit of interviewing experience. It’s something I enjoy, and I think I do well – especially the more in-depth, story driven interviews. I find it rewarding to sit … More Reflecting on Narrative interviewing
We can learn as much about Ancient Roman life from Virgil, Ovid, and Cicero as we can from the remarkably well-preserved anonymous graffiti of Pompey – the Twitter of Ancient Rome if you will. The same is true of our own lives. Our stories can do more than just amuse our friends and family, they can help … More ‘The Absent, But Implicit’: Understanding Our Stories
It is safe to say that this semester has been quite a departure from what everyone is used to, which is probably why I am so surprised that my Digital Artefact has managed to stay vaguely on tack. And when I say ‘vaguely’, that’s not an exaggeration – whilst the main idea has remained constant, … More BCM325 – Future Cultures: Digital Artefact Contextual Essay
I should preface this post by saying, that it was not what I indented to write. I expected this post to be a section of script, something that showed the development of the ideas and focus I explored in my previous two posts. I am learning the hard way that ‘Writers Block’ is real and … More Writing the Future – or Not?
This post follows on from my first reflection on live tweeting for the first half of BCM 325 – Future Cultures and continues to look at what were my most effective observations and tweets from the second half of the semester. Week Six – Ghost in the Shell (1995) This tweet fed into the recurring motif of … More Future Cultures Tweets – Ghost in the Shell to 2040
The Space Between The Sky 