Rafe ClaytonUniversity of Leeds · Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications
Rafe Clayton
Researcher, Academic, filmmaker.
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Introduction
Currently researching: Changes in screen use in post-lockdown Britain.
Filmmaking in the vertical aspect ratio.
Communication and media consumption during lockdown.
Unequal impacts of Coronavirus.
Education and learning during lockdown
Latest Publication: Rafe Clayton (2021) The Context of Vertical Filmmaking Literature, Available to download at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TM67IDFDDVRPZB4NDVDT/full?target=10.1080/10509208.2021.1874853
Additional affiliations
July 2021 - present
Publications
Publications (18)
Due to government restrictions, cinemas were closed in March 2020 and this rapidly accelerated the advancing trend of moving-image consumption taking place online (Gupta & Singharia 2021). Living under lockdown conditions and with the majority of British people [and many worldwide] having no option to watch movies other than within the home, the mo...
The use of screens has become integral to our work and leisure in the UK. New research looking at UK adults' use of screens during and after the coronavirus lockdowns has found a steep rise in total screen use. This was linked to perceived negative health impacts, with some groups being more vulnerable. Here we discuss the need for clear national g...
Current literature regarding the context of vertical filmmaking, presents arguments which interrogate the apparent presence of a horizontal bias (Bordwell 2009) in historic, commercial, physiological, and aesthetic discussions of moving image production. Horizontality is said to have dominated perceptions of the moving image both in academic litera...
Smartphones have changed the moving image landscape and now mobile users are consuming more vertical video than ever before (Richards 2017). In particular, vertical video is gaining popularity amongst content makers for social media since the aspect ratio typically suits how mobile phone users hold their phones and therefore how they are now watchi...
In March 2022, the UK Health Security Agency and the National Health Service issued guidance for parents of children aged 5–11 concerning vaccinations. The guidance stated that parents of all children in this age bracket should be offered the chance to have their child vaccinated and that the procedure was particularly important for children who ha...
The ‘New Uses of Screens in Post-Lockdown Britain’ study (NUSPB) set out to discover the current lived experiences of British people and how screen technologies may or may not have become more permanently integrated within their day-to-day lives following the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021.
The use of screens has become integral to our work and leisure in the UK. New research looking at UK adults’ use of screens during and after the coronavirus lockdowns has found a steep rise in total screen use. This was linked to perceived negative health impacts, with some groups being more vulnerable. Here we discuss the need for clear national g...
In this report, two of Canons recent cinema EOS cameras (the C70 and the C500 Mark II) are road tested in order to identify the extent to which they currently support vertical filmmaking.
This paper has been written by the 'British Families in Lockdown' research team led by Leeds Trinity University and identifies the perceived changes in learning and educational experiences as reported to us by British parents (some of whom are educators) that took part in our longitudinal study covering the first three national coronavirus lockdown...
This proposed plan has been created as a result of the collaboration of two qualitative research studies investigating the lived experiences of families during the UK lockdown which began on the 23rd March 2020 in response to the threat of Covid-19. ‘British Families in Lockdown’ (BFiL) was a Research England funded study headed by Leeds Trinity Un...
In August 2020, research teams from Leeds Trinity University and the University of Glasgow combined to formulate the 'Communities and Families Lockdown Learning Plan' as a recommended strategy for improving learning outcomes during future lockdowns in the UK. This learning and education proposal promotes social integration through the cooperation o...
‘British Families in Lockdown’ is a qualitative study led
by Leeds Trinity University which has investigated the
day-to day experiences of British families during the first
seven weeks of lockdown. Sixty parents from a diverse set
of socio-economic backgrounds, geographies, religions
and cultures participated in semi-structured interviews
and they...
British Families in Lockdown' is a qualitative study led by Leeds Trinity University which has investigated the day-to day experiences of British families during the first seven weeks of lockdown. Fifty-six families from a diverse set of socioeconomic backgrounds, geographies, religions and cultures participated in semi-structured interviews and th...
British Families in Lockdown' is a qualitative study led by Leeds Trinity University which has investigated the day-today experiences of British families during the first seven weeks of lockdown. Fifty-six families from a diverse set of socioeconomic backgrounds, geographies, religions and cultures participated in telephone or video calling semi-st...
British Families in Lockdown' is a qualitative study led by Leeds Trinity University which has investigated the day-today experiences of British families during the first seven weeks of lockdown. Fifty-six families from a diverse set of socioeconomic backgrounds, geographies, religions and cultures participated in telephone or video calling semi-st...
British Families in Lockdown' is a qualitative study led by Leeds Trinity University which has investigated the day-today experiences of British families during the first seven weeks of lockdown. Fifty-six families from a diverse set of socioeconomic backgrounds, geographies, religions and cultures participated in telephone or video calling semi-st...
British Families in Lockdown' is a qualitative study led by Leeds Trinity University which has investigated the day-today experiences of British families during the first seven weeks of lockdown. Fifty-six families from a diverse set of socioeconomic backgrounds, geographies, religions and cultures participated in telephone or video calling semi-st...
Projects
Projects (3)
This study will provide essential insights into an under-researched area of “urgent need” (House of Lords 2021) and will feed directly into the following government agendas:
The Science and Technology Committee’s inquiry into ‘The role of technology, research and innovation in the COVID-19 recovery’
COVID-19 Committee inquiries into ‘Living online’, ‘Life beyond COVID’ and UK Parliament's 'The impact of digital technology on arts and culture in the UK' PostNote.
This research will use a combination of questionnaires and interviews to build upon the data gathered from the British Families in Lockdown study (BFiL 2020–21) by further investigating the extent to which British people (including diverse, marginalised and young people) are increasing, decreasing or maintaining their use of screen technologies in post-lockdown UK. This study aims to discover the current lived experiences of British people and how screen technologies may or may not have become more permanently integrated within their day-to-day lives and what impact this has had.
'British Families in Lockdown’ (BFiL) is a qualitative study led by Leeds Trinity University which is investigating the day-to-day experiences of British families during the pandemic. Our research started in March 2020 during the first national lockdown and is ongoing.
Fifty-six families from a diverse set of socio-economic backgrounds, geographies, religions and cultures are participating in semi-structured interviews whilst under lockdown in their homes, using VOIP protocols to communicate with the researchers. Family members share their detailed, personal stories and experiences of employment, children’s schooling, health, well-being, family life, leisure time and technology use during the UK three lockdowns.
This research is a practical investigation into vertical filmmaking in long form narrative contexts at the University of York.
