SCREENL!TES INSTRUCTORS

BACOMMS, MTEACH (SECONDARY), MCOMMS, CERT IV TAE

MEDIA AND PHOTOGRAPHY INSTRUCTOR

 Lara Warwick is a mother of two and a secondary media/photography and drama teacher, in Perth Western Australia. She has taught lowerschool Media and photography, senior school Media Production and Analysis; right through to VET creative industries courses. She has also been a guest speaker and  unit co-ordinator at Curtin university in Arts education. She is currently working on a collaborative research project between Curtin and Edith Cowan, writing a book about Arts education. 

Two of her students became the first high school students in the state to be Apple Final Cut pro certified, and she has conducted research projects on creativity, social media as the public domain and mobile devices in the classroom. Her year 7 team won Best secondary film at the Armadale Independent Film festival in 2011, for their film 'The Written word', which was based on the theme of Homelessness.
Many of her students have gone on to work for magazines; newspapers; as independent photographers; working in sports media and some studying film and television at university.

Lara is a quirky, creative, Arts teacher, always taking pictures or video and telling unfunny puns, much to her student’s dismay. She loves anything colourful and interesting and editing any footage she can get her hands on. She has been known to actually do some house work, drink cold cups of tea, occasionally create something craft related and she likes to run after ‘energiser bunny' toddlers in her free time.

She has a passion for Media literacy and helping young people not be 'consumed' by The Media and make wise media choices. .