Open AccessVideo Diary Making as a Research Method: Just Another Jargon of Authenticity?
Author(s) -
Tony Dowmunt
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
networking knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1755-9944
DOI - 10.31165/nk.2007.11.3
Subject(s) - filmmaking , jargon , presentation (obstetrics) , visual arts , art , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , radiology , movie theater
From 2003-2006 I was an AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts investigating autobiographical documentary and video diaries, a project which included including the production of the video-diary based film A Whited Sepulchre .
The presentation included sequences from the film, as a way, first of describing how the use of video diary making was itself a research method, and then of raising some of the questions - and the beginnings of answers - that the method provoked.
One of my aims with A Whited Sepulchre was - fairly obviously - to investigate the form/genre of the video diary by making one myself: filmmaking as a research method (or in Charlotte Crofts’ words 'the use of practice as a research tool').