Finding the Personal Voice in Filmmaking

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-00376-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films. Filmmaker and academic, Professor Erik Knudsen, uses a combination of autoethnographic experience derived from his own filmmaking practice and new insights gained from a series of ethnomediaological StoryLab workshops with independent filmmakers in Malaysia, Ghana and Colombia to drive this innovative examination. The book contextualises this practice exploration within an eclectic psychological and philosophical framework that ranges from Jungian psychological theories of the collective unconscious to Sheldrakian scientific theories of morphic resonance, from Christian mystical ideas about creative motivation to structuralist theories that underpin our linguistic understanding of story and narrative. Why should we create? What is a creative act? This in-depth study tackles these questions by examining the early ideation stages of cinematic expression and ultimately seeks to understand the practical ways in which ideas are shaped into stories and narratives. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knudsen, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmdrehbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Why Create?.- 3. What is Creativity?.- 4. Why Story?.- 5. Transformations.- 6. Appendix.

Über Autor(innen)

Erik Knudsen is a filmmaker and Professor of Media Practice at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Recent prize winning films include Cleft Lip (2018) and The Raven On The Jetty (2015) and he is co-author of Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice (2011).