- Title
- Exploring the creative capacity of The Shoot Out 24 hour filmmaking festival
- Creator
- Street, Kristina Maree
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival attracted over 1,000 filmmaking entrants each year to Australia’s regional city of Newcastle with the remit to make a film in 24 hours. With its specific filmmaking parameters, it ran for a decade, building to team submissions of up to 198 short films per event. These production requirements were unique to the festival resulting in the festival not fully aligning with categorisations proposed by existing film festival schemas. This research project aimed to: Explore the creative capacity of The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival. The research objective was to uncover knowledge of how a film festival design influences and motivates creativity in a filmmaking process and the impact the festival structure had on the filmmakers’ agency within this system. Building on creativity theories of systemic based theoretical approaches The Shoot Out provides an exclusive opportunity to analyse a creative system in action through iterations of the event over a ten year period. Examination of this real world creative ecosystem effectively corroborates existing theoretical findings including systemic models of creativity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1988; Kerrigan, 2013), structuration (Giddens, 1976; Haralambos & Holbern, 1995; Wolff, 1981) and flow theories (Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi, 2002) that view creativity as a result of a confluence of factors. This thesis used ethnography and qualitative data drawn from filmed interviews with the festival directors and filmmaking entrants as well as a textual analysis of ten years of films from the field of works. Interrogation of the data provides evidence of motivation, flow, creative variation and domain evolution within creative system. The research found that there is a dynamic interdependence between the components of a creative system. A creative system is adaptive, evolves over time and iteratively supports skills growth. Within the system, instigation of creativity can begin with the domain or the field and is not limited to the filmmaking agent. This is significant for the way creative systems are constructed to ensure motivated participation and creativity.
- Subject
- creativity; film festival; video festival; film making; production
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1477237
- Identifier
- uon:49947
- Rights
- Copyright 2023 Kristina Maree Street
- Language
- eng
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