Screenwriting and the higher degree by research: writing a screenplay for a creative practice PhD

Lee, Sung-Ju Suya; Lomdahl, Anne-Marie; Sawtell, Louise; Sculley, Stephen; Taylor, Stayci

doi:10.1080/14790726.2015.1135964

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“…Practice-led research (in the following abbreviated to PLR) can be understood as "[..] an original investigation undertaken in order to gain new knowledge, partly by means of practice and the outcomes of practice" (Candy & Edmonds, 2018, p. 63). Internationally, PLR is a developing field of research, for example in screenwriting studies (Dean, 2020;Lee et al, 2016). In this article, we do not intend to clarify PLR as a methodology.…”

Section: What Is Practice-led Research?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Method Off the Beaten Track

Pilegaard

Philipsen

2023

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How can you improve your writing processes and your creative projects by examining your own working conditions? In this article, we address this question and the possibilities and challenges of the method called ‘practice-led research’, which is a method off the beaten track in media production studies. We examine assignments by students from the educational program of ‘Screenplay Development’ at the University of Southern Den-mark. Our purpose is to clarify how the students have used practice-led research to enhance their screenwriting, and whether this method has contributed to their talent development. The theoretical framework in the article is constituted by Donald Schön’s (2013) practice epistemology. As our analytical lens we use Robin Nelson’s (2013) modes of thinking, as well as talent development theories by Anders Ericsson (Ericsson & Pool, 2016) and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (1996). Based on our findings, we suggest how to get started you’re your creative writing and improve your writing processes.

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Section: What Is Practice-led Research?mentioning

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A Method Off the Beaten Track

Pilegaard

Philipsen

2023

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“…A strong and recent argument made by numerous scholars and creative practice researchers is that screenplays are indeed finished creative works in their own right, regardless of their industrial (production) contexts (see Boon, 2008;Macdonald, 2010). This is especially true of research degrees such as the PhD, in which the screenplay functions as a major work of scholarship under the guise of creative practice research (see Lee et al, 2016). Building on these ideas, Ted Nannicelli argues convincingly that scripts can and should be understood as literature, as 'ontologically autonomous works' (2013: 135) that are finished texts in and of themselves, and that can be read as such.…”

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