Charting Changing Production Practices: Testimonials of Moviemaking Enthusiasts
- Submitting institution
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Ravensbourne University London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- RS03
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781501333248
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- I was invited to submit a chapter proposal for this edited collection following a workshop presentation in the Netherlands.
This research question was: can oral history interviews with participants provide new perspectives on organized amateur moviemaking culture?
While working on a two-year AHRC funded project at the University of Liverpool I attended an Oral History Society training course. This session provided guidance on how to conduct oral history interviews. I subsequently employed their recommended approaches while interviewing amateur moviemakers in the Merseyside region.
I continued to use this research method while working on a four-year AHRC funded project at the University of Glasgow. The use of standardized questions allowed me to explore both the overlaps and divergences between amateur filmmakers in another geographical area.
Following the completion of both projects, in 2014 I was invited to present a workshop paper at Maastricht University reflecting on the main outcomes of using this research method to understand the amateur sector. In this paper I explored attitudes to changing camera technologies.
In 2016 I was asked to submit a chapter proposal based on this workshop paper. In addition to the focus on technology, this abstract identified two further thematic areas of particular interest. Later that year I transcribed extracts of selected interviews, read new scholarly publications on amateur cinema, and wrote the first draft. This book chapter focused on changing technologies, collaborative moviemaking, and individual moviemakers. Following feedback from the editors, the chapter was revised and resubmitted in 2017.
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- Non-English
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