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Local Content Producers: Co-Creating Communal Stories and Community in the Big Stories, Small Towns Participatory Documentary Project
Big Stories, Small Towns is a transmedia participatory documentary series that commenced production in 2008 and has facilitated the telling, recording, archiving and dissemination of more than 500 auto/biographical narratives in Australia, Cambodia, Hungary, West Papua, Malaysia and Indonesia across thirteen towns. Big Stories is based around professional media makers living in a town, as filmmakers-in-residence, and creating stories with local people. This chapter reflects on, from the perspective of a practitioner, the processes of working with small communities and non-professional media makers to facilitate creative documentary work and key theories and practices that have supported this work. There will also be a discussion of theoretical and practice-based developments of participatory modes of engagement with the media, examining production processes in the light of culture and technology, in particular projects that have influenced the multi-year, multi-site Big Stories, Small Towns project. Through case studies from Big Stories, Small Towns this chapter will explore the process of professional and non-professional media makers co-creating stories.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Screen ProductionChapter number
15Pagination
193 - 206Publisher
SpringerPlace of publication
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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9783030217440Language
engNotes
The handbook in which this chapter appears is an essential creative, critical and practical guide for students and educators of screen production internationally. It covers all aspects of screen production—from conceptualizing ideas and developing them, to realizing and then distributing them—across all forms and formats, including fiction and non-fiction for cinema, television, gallery spaces and the web. With chapters by practitioners, scholars and educators from around the world, the book provides a comprehensive collection of approaches for those studying and teaching the development and production of screen content. With college and university students in mind, the volume purposely combines theory and practice to offer a critically informed and intellectually rich guide to screen production, shaped by the needs of those working in education environments where ‘doing’ and ‘thinking’ must co-exist. The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production fills an important gap in creative-critical knowledge of screen production, while also providing practical tools and approaches for future practitioners.Publication classification
B1 Book chapterExtent
35Editor/Contributor(s)
Craig Batty, Marsha Berry, Kath Dooley, Bettina Frankham, Susan KerriganUsage metrics
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