Emma Corboz: Task 1d

Sunday 19 October 2014

Task 1d - 2d Images

As a teacher at a school that I do not own, I am not involved with marketing the school and so I do not need to take photos of the children I teach. I do however use videography to add to the children's learning experience.

There are two ways in which I use this material; firstly I use video footage to show a child if they are performing a movement incorrectly so that they can see precisely what they are doing wrong. The second way I use this material is to upload to a locked 'Vimeo' channel (one which I regularly change the password to) so children are able to practise exercises and dances in between lessons. Before recording a child, I always ensure I have a signed consent form from each child's parent or guardian. This protects my integrity as a teacher from any allegations of misuse of videography, something which I am extremely cautious of in todays society.

As mentioned in my previous blog, I am currently in the process of opening my own dance school. With this in mind I have a section on the enrolment form that, once signed by a parent, will allow me to use photography/videography for promotion and marketing, provided it is used in line with the child protection act and my schools child protection policy.

I give permission to allow my child to have photos and/or videos placed on the Beatz & Bluez School of Dance Website and/or Beatz & Bluez School of Dance social media pages. Any photos/videos which are placed by those other than Emma Corboz , Beatz & Bluez School of Dance, its directors, agents, servants, employees, and those acting under its authority, will not be held responsible

However, unlike many schools that I have worked for in the past, I will be keeping the photographs and video footage on the schools marketing current and relevant to the students I am teaching at the time. I feel this is only ethical practise as a responsible teacher, something I pride myself on being.

For the purpose of this task I have created a flickr account:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127032293@N07/

In this album I have tried to encapsulate the story of my life to date as a performer and display some of the moments closest to my heart. I have always loved performing and I feel these photos show me at some of the highlights in my life on stage.

I also ran an search on google images on my own name and was not surprised when it returned seven photos of me. However, I am slightly concerned that the photos that appear first are my old head shots and my new one is only the third in line, as I feel I have changed a lot facially and would not want prospective directors to be put off based on an old photo. This is something that I am going to look into rectifying and have recently read the following story -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2790326/google-deletes-18-000-uk-links-right-forgotten-laws-just-month-60-europe-wide-requests-come-fraudsters-criminals-sex-offenders.html

I hope to be able to remove some of the links associated with a google search on my name under this legislation so that in future only my new head shots appear.

1 comment:

Dani Zebrowska24 October 2014 at 03:46
I like the idea that you have a locked Vimeo channel for the kids at your school - it's good practice to protect their identities!
For my 'day job' I follow a lot of local dance schools on Facebook - the business does not allow sharing or reposting of any images with the dance school's children in and I do wonder about the ethical implications of the schools themselves sharing and tagging these children on an open Facebook page. I understand it's good promotion for the school or for a particular show, but at the same time, what privacy concerns does this throw up when anyone can view the images on FB and search the school on Google Maps?
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Welcome to my life...

'We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths' - Walter Elias Disney.

This is one of my all time favourite quotes and opitomises how I live my life, whether in work or play, I always seek out and create new opportunities to push myself further and discover new adventures.

I trained from a very young age in all aspects of performing arts at a local theatre school, followed then by completing a BTEC in Performing Arts; Musical Theatre in my hometown. From here I gained a place at Italia Conti and trained up until the age of twenty one in Musical Theatre, whilst at the same time completing ISTD teacher training qualifications.

Although I had always thought I wanted to perform after graduation, during my time training I was offered the opportunity to work at a childrens theatre school teaching dance, drama and musical theatre. I absolutely loved it and found I excelled as a teacher, so much so that upon graduating, I was presented with the 'Most Promising Teacher' accolade.

After graduation, I continued to teach at the theatre school and felt happy in my role, although watching many of my peers fullfilling performing contracts I now considered that I was missing out. I auditoned for a pantomime six months after graduation and was offered the lead in Cinderella for a Christmas contract. From here I continued auditioning and luckily walked from one contract to the next for four consecutive years, working for companies such as Merlin, TED UK and my dream company Disney. These contracts were for a variety of roles from singer/dancer to actress to host/presenter and even the odd skin character for good measure. These contracts allowed me the freedom to travel to many countries including the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico and the USA and meet some amazing people with incredible stories.

At the end of two years of travelling I decided I wanted to have a base again moved back to London to head back in to teaching, now adorned with a wealth of professional industry experience and knowledge to better my teaching.

And that brings us up to present day, where I am currently combining single day performance event jobs with teaching after school and weekends. Right now I am focussing on my teaching career, hopefully gaining a full BA Degree qualification and completing a PGCE afterwards, but who is to say what is waiting behind the next door?