Multicomponent: Film - On The Outside
Multicomponent with Additional info
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2271876
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- February
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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https://portfolios.napier.ac.uk/view/view.php?t=rvsjkhR8FAScqpMVbZJm
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This multi component research output includes ‘On the Outside’ (2019), a 42 minute film that is the outcome of a participatory film project involving women serving sentences in HM Prison Polmont, Scotland. The author co-wrote the screenplay with the participants and was director of the subsequent film. Screenplays were developed that communicated the women’s stories using their exact spoken words. Individual narratives were recounted by actors, giving introspective accounts of the women’s lives, while challenging preconceived notions of the label ‘prisoner.’ The underlying methodology explored participatory video techniques that would result in a production process that best suited the specific voice of those involved - in this case, questioning the significance of anonymity in story-telling when collaborating with vulnerable individuals and communities. The final narrative form engages with contemporary cinematic concerns by exploring delineations between fiction and non-fiction representations; using verbatim practices through which the film is rendered a document of its own making; and recognising participants as co-authors and agents of their own representation. This is further contextualised within Gray’s peer reviewed paper ‘On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word’, published in the Journal of Media Practice and Education (2020). Following a premiere screening to the initial intended audience (the participants and their families), where the participants’ subjective spoken words were performed back to them in their own recognisable vernacular, screenings continued within local community contexts and at events of national and international significance, including international festivals, the Scottish Parliament and screening opportunities that informed public debate around the criminal justice system. The significance of the project for the participants can be summarised by the positive responses made during the final project seminar. ‘I want to see this finished piece so badly, I wrote that. That’s something.’
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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