'Edith' - an experiment in developing a new aesthetic of the television studio
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 312546
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Bournemouth University - Centre for Film and TV
- Month
- November
- Year
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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1 - Journalism, Conflict and Social Change
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Whilst much of the focus within practice-as-research has been on location filming with a single camera in documentary and drama genres, I am interested in how the creative ‘blank page’ space of a studio environment and the immediacy of multi-camera and/or live events might contribute to the complexity, contestation and debate that is the hallmark of academic endeavour. I draw on the work of a previous generation of experimental television producers, writers and directors from the 1960s and 1970s who embraced the non-naturalistic studio play. I use this forgotten and neglected form to articulate my thinking as a practitioner and academic about how we might communicate complex ideas, narratives and feelings using television studio techniques in an academic context. I ask whether we might bring theatre into the television studio to use television studio drama to model ideas and combine this with investigation, debate and discussion. 'Edith' is the first step in this inquiry using a ‘practice as research’ methodology. In this case, my practice in research experiment takes a historical enigma, the flight of Hitler’s deputy Rudolph Hess to Britain in 1941, combined with an auto-ethnographic reflection on contemporary debates on historiography, as a case study to test my ideas about the practice of non-naturalistic studio drama and consider how it might be developed in the future as a useful form of inquiry and expression. The work develops, through practice, ideas that I first conceptualised and expressed in a paper in 2016 (Hearing, T., 2016. The Scholarly Studio: Developing a new aesthetic of the multi-camera television studio as an academic research tool. In: Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association, 5-7 July 2016, Canberra.), and lays down a foundation for future inquiry in a field of practice research that is unique and unexplored and I have made my own.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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