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The document discusses filmmaking and community media from the perspective of a 2nd year PhD student at UWS who is a filmmaker, documentarist, and works with community, participatory, collaborative, and practice-based media, with a focus on islands and urban areas. The student explores how knowledge emerges through the process and practice of filmmaking rather than existing prior to it, as discussed in a quote from MacDougall's 1998 work.
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1. I Film therefore I am: Process, Practice & Participation in Community Media Kirsten MacLeod 2nd Year PhD, UWS. Filmmaker/Documentarist/Community Media/ Participatory Media/Collaborative Media/Practice/Islands/Urban…
2. ”knowledge is not prior but emerges and takes distinctive shape…through the very grain of filmmaking” (MacDougall, 1998:76)
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Title & Intro to my researchMy research is looking at participation in the production process of community based media, using a practice based approach. This research is being carried out in a fieldwork context, drawing on the process of producing community media projects in the Govan area of Glasgow and on the Isle of Bute.
Process, Practice & Participation What interests me lies in the DOING, THE PRACTICE of making films, videos, visual media, and particularly the “social context of the image production (Marcus Banks). I am interrogating community/participatory/collaborative video production asA PROCESS of production, which encompasses a range of practices and is much more than just a means to the end. My work echoes David MacDougall who describes this process, as a mediation of social relationships and the creation of social knowledge (1992:34), where knowledge emerges “through the very grain of filmmaking” (1998:76). My practice is the production of visual media with people, collaboratively, with their participation. I am interested in how this participation is negotiated by individuals, and their communities, how the processes of production are both meaningful to them, and how they make meaning out of the process.
Research: This PRACTICE as RESEARCH draws heavily on my own background in Visual Anthropology, and the work of AnnaGrimshaw, David MacDougall, and Marcus Banks which situate the filming process (MY PRACTICE) as a way of seeing the world, as a way of KNOWING THE WORLD. From 3 “community media projects” I am producing “production ethnographies”, a term coined by Dornfield, (2002).This involves a critical reflection on the production process and my own research process, seeking to locate BOTH media & research production in negotiated social spaces.
Issues:However, as much as these are the ideas behind why I use my practice as the basis for my research, how it provides the locus for my fieldwork, it is the more practical and logistical issues which often concern me most.Such as the Ethics of Practice based research and the importance, yet often impracticality of introducing practice as research. Getting the job done can become more pressing than making research notes, or asking the most useful questions at the right time.And sometimes one is so close to a situation, so immersed, that one cannot always see what is going on. Hence the importance of writing up, of noting all the details and coming back to reflect and reconsider.
In CONCLUSION: doing PRACTICE based research affords me quality of time and engagement with people. Like the notion of embedded learning, practice based research works best through doing. In my case it draws on my own knowledge and experience of a process to investigate deeper what the process of production means to those with whom I collaborate and how this process is located in wider social contexts. Kirsten MacLeodUWS, May 2011
