VIDEO
Performance writing and essay writing
PhD student and playwright Peta Murray looks at a form of creative nonfiction: a fusion of performance writing and essay writing.
Research at RMIT – Peta Murray | RMIT University
(Transcript with notations)
VISUAL: Research at RMIT. Peta Murray looks at a form of creative nonfiction: a fusion of performance writing and essay writing. RMIT University logo.
VISUAL: Close up of Peta Murray’s glasses lying open on top of a book. Peta Murray picks up the glasses.
Peta Murray: My research is called ...
VISUAL: Peta Murray places her glasses onto her face and looks down at her laptop which is off?screen.
Peta Murray: ... Elder?flowering: creative endurance ...
VISUAL: Close up on Peta Murray’s hands typing on her laptop.
Peta Murray: ... and the Theatre of Resistance.
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera. The title at the bottom of the screen reads: Peta Murray, Higher Degree by Research (School of Media and Communication).
Peta Murray: And it's looking at a form of creative nonfiction that I've called the dis-memoir and it's a fusion of performance writing ...
VISUAL: Close up of Peta Murray’s hands typing on her laptop.
Peta Murray: ... which is my background, I'm a playwright, or I was ...
VISUAL: Camera pans across for a close?up on Peta Murray’s face as she looks down at her laptop which is off?screen.
Peta Murray: ... and essay writing style forms.
VISUAL: Camera pans in towards Peta Murray typing at her laptop, she is front on to the camera but looking down at her laptop.
Peta Murray: So I'm currently conducting interviews with ...
VISUAL: Close up on Peta Murray wearing headphones listening to something through the headphones and looking down at something off-screen, probably the handheld recorder.
Peta Murray: ... established women artists across a range of ...
VISUAL: Close up of the handheld recorder that Peta Murray is holding in her hand and looking at the screen.
Peta Murray: ... different disciplines and I'm talking to them about aging in ...
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera and smiling at the end.
Peta Murray: ... arts practice and aging across the creative life course, and that's really interesting. So I'm hearing very exciting ...
VISUAL: Camera pans from Peta Murray’s face down to the book that she is reading.
Peta Murray: ... things; it's what I'm going to do with them next, that's the big question.
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera.
Peta Murray: The waratah is kind of a totem, for me, for this project, and it speaks to the fact ...
VISUAL: Camera is side?on to Peta Murray as she sits at her desk and types on her laptop.
Peta Murray: ... that it's a late?bloomer that flowers rarely and under very ...
VISUAL: Close up of Peta Murray’s laptop screen as she is typing on it (the camera is looking over her right shoulder).
Peta Murray: ... difficult conditions. And what I'm researching ...
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera.
Peta Murray: ... is the future ...
VISUAL: Close up of Peta Murray’s face, smiling whilst looking at the recorder (which is off?screen) and wearing the headphones.
Peta Murray: ... of my career and other women writers of my age ...
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera.
Peta Murray: ... who are entering the third age of their ..
VISUAL: Close up of book as Peta Murray’s hands turn quickly through a few pages.
Peta Murray: ... creative practice. The thing I love about ...
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera.
Peta Murray: ... RMIT is that it does allow somebody like me, who is a practitioner, to segue ...
VISUAL: Camera is side?on to Peta Murray as she is sitting at her desk turning the pages of the book she is reading.
Peta Murray: ... into the academic arena.
VISUAL: Peta Murray speaking to the camera.
Peta Murray: So I think it's allowing me to continue to practice as an artist, as well as thinking about what I do and why I do it and hopefully, contributing something to the larger discourse.
VISUAL: RMIT University Logo and website www.rmit.edu.au. This video features the song “Inspiring day” by PlayAgain. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.
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