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June 15, 2024
I’m not anti-cinema, I’m anti-one-dimensional thinking: About cinema and everything else besides
When I was developing the Breaking Cinema podcast, I kept repeating the point that "I didn't want the podcast to be just about films."
But that was not to say that I didn't to deal with films or t...
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The Bigger Picture as defined for Breaking Cinema
"The bigger picture" was a term I had used rather vaguely throughout the development of Breaking Cinema and often to the bafflement of the other project members.
So, in order to provide clarity on...
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12 Things the Breaking Cinema podcast is not
I wrote the following twelve points to clarifying the focus of the Breaking Cinema podcast in the project's Vision Document.
I wrote the twelve points both for reminding myself and for enlightenin...
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MTA outline for the Breaking Cinema Vision Document
The following is an outline for my MTA Portfolio that I included in the Vision Document for the Breaking Cinema podcast project.
I included an outline of my MTA Portfolio because Breaking Cinema w...
Read MoreJune 13, 2024
Constructive Film Studies
"If the study of film just becomes film history, then film will be history!"
- Me, Breaking Cinema with a Selfie Stick
Constructive Film Studies, a.k.a. Film Studies 2.0, is my endorsement for a...
Read MoreMay 28, 2024
Creative Postgraduate Life: The email that started it all
Presented below is a 6,000 word proposal email I wrote on the 25th April, 2014 and sent to my peer Tom, who I had collaborated with in the creation of the Fencing documentary we produced as part o...
Read MoreApril 26, 2024
10/02/2016 is the day I self-declared my master’s degree
The following declaration is from an email I sent to my mother and sister detailing my postgraduate plans.
The idea to build my own master's degree had been forming all throughout 2014 and 2015, b...
Read MoreApril 8, 2024
House and petsitting to finish my masters
Yeah, I’ve now become a house and petsitter.
I started back in December 2023 and I’ve continued to do it since.
I’m currently on my fifth housesit in a lovely and big villa type house in Bristol.
...
Read MoreApril 1, 2024
I volunteered at the Bristol Jazz Festival
Yeah, just I did with the Slapstick Festival in February, I took some time out of work and my studies to volunteer at the 2024 edition of the Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival.
As with the Sl...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2024
Components 1 & 4 of my Education Innovation final project are now up
I now have all the components of my Education Innovation final project up.
Component 1 is about my education philosophy and how this informed the creation of my MTA Portfolio
C...
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2024
Took a week out to volunteer at the Slapstick Festival
I needed a break from working on my masters and earning a living so I decided to spend a week volunteering at the Bristol-based Slapstick Festival.
Slapstick Festival exists to build new au...
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2024
Figuring out my focus: In my values, in my learning and in my creativity
Breaking Cinema was a documentary podcast project I developed between 2014-2016 and which now forms a component of my Creative Technologies Sandbox.
My vision for Breaking Cinema had been t...
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