GUEST SPEAKER - Raquel Villar-Pérez (Assistant Curator Photoworks) - Curating your own festival

11.00 am - Friday 27th November - 2020

Photography students from year 2 FdA Photography in Practice have curated the Photoworks‘ Festival in a Box’ at Loxton Campus (in Costa Café). All the works came in a small cardboard box and the studentslearnt about the photographers and decided how and where to hang the work. Have a look before the talk! Raquel will talk about references and sources of inspiration for the Festival in a Box. She will discuss traditional approaches as well as experimental approaches to hanging a show.

Photoworks champions photography for everyone. They are an international platform, global in reach, and have provided opportunities for artists and audiences since 1995. Their programme brings new experiences to audiences and opens up new ways to encounter photography. Photoworks is a registered charity and the only organisation with a national remit for photography in England.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84578885263?pwd=SVBEQSt4OGNJSzJjYWIrR0V5T01wdz09
Meeting ID: 845 7888 5263
Passcode: 120512

Website: photoworks.org.uk

CLAIRE CLEMENTS - WILDLIFE PRODUCER AND CAMERA OPERATOR - GUEST SEMINAR - Monday 30th November 2020

Claire is an award winning natural history Producer and Camera Operator from New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.

Claire presented a guest seminar, live from South Australia, on Monday 30th November 2020 11 am (UK time). Claire talked through the process of making a wildlife film, from idea to the pitch, writing, pre production, production, post & delivery. Drawing on her work on Wild Cities. (For a recording from seminar please message Richard Edkins on Teams).

'Over the last 9 years I've specialised in honing my skills as a story teller and shooter. I usually take my projects from development all the way through to delivery. 

I am a versatile camera operator skilled at long lens, macro and night filming. I've filmed on extended shoots around the world in often challenging conditions. I often specialise in telling urban wildlife stories. 

I'm a passionate conservationist and have a background in Zoology and a Masters in Natural History Film Making. 

For my latest documentary I have spent 5 months tracking a  never before filmed primate in Asia. This will be the first time this species has ever been seen on TV. 

I believe at the heart of every good film is good story telling and I constantly strive to find the magic, the beauty and the quirky that is so often right in front of us...and bring this to life on screen.'

For more about Claire's work visit: http://poool.co.uk/claire-clements

ANDREW DAVIES - GUEST SEMINAR - Fully Charged - AUTOMOTIVE VIDEOS // MUSIC VIDEOS // CORPORATE VIDEOS

Andrew Davies is a graduate of BA Lens Based Media and FdA Film & Media Arts Production degrees at University Centre Weston.

Currently working as Camera Operator and Production assistant with Fully Charged as well as doing freelance work as Andrew Davies Media.

Andrew will be doing a guest seminar Friday 27th November 2020 1.30pm giving his advice from University as well as how to get work outside of University.

Please email richard.edkins@weston.ac.uk if you would like to join (if you haven’t already received invite and link via teams) and think of some questions to add to the conversation.

See more about Andrew’s work here.