Title: Turbulance of Creation: Screens and Screams and the Role of the Creative Producer
Abstract:Three hundred children, a building site as the studio production environment, three major cultural institutions, international artists and a ten day schedule of production and post production culminat...Three hundred children, a building site as the studio production environment, three major cultural institutions, international artists and a ten day schedule of production and post production culminating in a screening of the finished film on the 10th night before an audience of several hundred people sounds impossible, but this was the scenario of the case study presented in this paper. It is the contention of this paper that it is the Creative Producer, often fuelled by the fundamental energies of persistence, intuition, vision and intellectual inquiry, who can be instrumental in the development of successful digital art works. This is particularly so in a social/political environment, where the context invites collaboration, intuition and improvisation to be used as key drivers of the production methodology. The Creative Producer will be defined as an instigator of creative inquiry who works across both management functionality and creative endeavour in the development of a creative multimedia production. The process used to pull together the partnerships, the collaborating artists and the participants in the case study will be described.The paper will explore how a Creative Producer can engage with the turbulence of the creative process to establish viable collaborative organisational partnerships, a creative collaboration between artists and children, and an innovative production methodology. In the case study, the organisational partnership created for the project was with the Melbourne City Council, ACMI and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Screens and Screams will demonstrate some possibilities of employing cross-disciplinary interaction in a digital art practice. Exploring an interrupted narrative structure, the film engages the audience in its freshness and vitality, belonging more to the tradition of experimental cinema than to traditional notions of children's narrative films. The ability to collaborate and to trust intuitive impulses through improvisation was a vital element of the production process. The possibilities implicit in the use of hybrid technologies alongside more traditional art processes were explored. The image making included screen prints, shadow puppetry, gesture, drawing on paper, digital manipulation of drawings, matteing and computer animation. These techniques made the finished movie a dynamic layered work, complimented by a narrative recorded by the children and music composed by children for this movie with members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. There is a growing recognition by key funding agencies, that creative production can be enhanced by the inclusion of a Creative Producer. An examination of the role through this research may add to an understanding of current creative practice in digital production and may result in changes to production funding arrangements in the future.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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