Howe, William (2015) A Cinema of Happenings: Exploring Improvisation as Process in Filmmaking. Master of Philosophy (MPhil) thesis, University of Kent,. (KAR id:62458)
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Abstract
This thesis supports a practice-based-research project that examines differing methodologies
Offering (2005), Birdman (2009) and The Graduate Workshop (2010). By investigating the
the performer and the finished film there are inherent production processes that both finesse
extent are the footprints of improvisation visible within the performance and aesthetics of film
This study brings together a number of ideas about improvisation practice, as
Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project, 1999). I use dominant 'institutional'
informed by new materials, specifically, an interview with Penny Woolcock (Tina Goes
Where existing accounts of improvisation have principally sought to define this as a
distinct 'models' of improvisation process in relation to filmmaking. In comparing different
processes, the thesis proposes a paired down schema for future work; identifying clear points
developing narrative and filming. This project makes a distinct contribution to the study of
filmmaking.
Item Type: | Thesis (Master of Philosophy (MPhil)) |
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Thesis advisor: | Shaughnessy, Robert |
Thesis advisor: | Allain, Paul |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Improvisation Film Methodologies Practice-as-Research |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts |
SWORD Depositor: | System Moodle |
Depositing User: | System Moodle |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2017 12:38 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:47 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/62458 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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