Video games and criticism

Research at RMIT – Brendan Keogh | RMIT University

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Typist’s notes: filler words have not been typed for ease of reading. Unclear is due to diction

VISUAL: Research at RMIT. Brendan Keogh looks at video games and video game criticism. RMIT University logo.

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh sitting at a desk looking at and typing on his laptop; the camera is side?on to him and then it pans in and around to look over his shoulder at the laptop screen.

Brendan Keogh: My research project is about video games and video game criticism. The academic study of ...

VISUAL: Close up on Brendan Keogh’s face as he is looking down at something off?screen.

Brendan Keogh: ... video games is relatively young. We're a generation ...

VISUAL: Close up of a book containing an article titled On Video Game Criticism by Brendan Keogh. Above the title is an image of a ghost from Pacman.

Brendan Keogh: ... for who, video games [unclear - in the house ?]; they're just normal and mundane and every day ...

VISUAL: Close up of Brendan’s hands typing on the laptop keyboard.

Brendan Keogh: ... so I see myself as one of ...

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh, Higher Degree by Research (School of Media and Communication) speaking to the camera.

Brendan Keogh: ... many academics trying to start video game studies as a kind of talking about ...

VISUAL: Close up of laptop screen as Brendan is playing Minecraft. The camera is looking over his right shoulder and zooms in close on the screen.

Brendan Keogh: ... these things as cultural artefacts. So I guess some of the questions I'm trying to ask ...

VISUAL: Close up of Brendan’s face as he is looking down at something off?screen, probably the laptop screen.

Brendan Keogh: ... myself in this research is how do video games mean?

VISUAL: Close up of laptop screen as Brendan is playing Minecraft – building a spruce wood forest with a lake.

Brendan Keogh: How do they feel? I think a lot of institutions do game design under ...

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh speaking to the camera.

Brendan Keogh: ... an IT School; whereas at RMIT, Game Design is under Design.

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh is sitting at his desk typing on his laptop. The camera moves behind Brendan from his left shoulder to his right shoulder looking at the laptop screen.

Brendan Keogh: It's a much more integrated critical approach. It gives me a lot more ...

VISUAL: Close up of laptop screen which appears to be a computer generated image of a disco with stick people dancing on a square grid?like dancefloor and two disc?jockey stick people are sitting at benches on the outside of the dance floor. There is lots of flashing colourful lights.

Brendan Keogh: ... room to breathe and talk to people about games ...

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh speaking to the camera.

Brendan Keogh: ... as an art?form rather than games as ...

VISUAL: Close up of laptop screen as Brendan is playing Minecraft on the screen – two pigs are in a forest in the Minecraft world and they are moved out the way. The camera is looking over Brendan’s right shoulder.

Brendan Keogh: ... a computer software; to go into it and not thinking video games are special ...

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh speaking to the camera.

Brendan Keogh: ... or new or somehow completely different ...

VISUAL: Close up of laptop screen as Brendan is looking at the moving image of dancers on the dancefloor, as seen before, lots of colours. The camera is looking over his left shoulder.

Brendan Keogh: ... but are really connected to this much broader art history and to really grapple with that challenge of thinking about that.

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh speaking to the camera.

Brendan Keogh: If the world didn't have video games we would lose ...

VISUAL: Close up of the video screen showing the video game, as seen earlier, of the stick people dancing at the disco with lots of coloured lights.

Brendan Keogh: ... thousands of worlds that people can explore.

VISUAL: Close up of the laptop screen as Brendan is building with spruce wood planks in Minecraft. The camera is looking over his right shoulder.

Brendan Keogh: It would lose this amazing ability to learn ...

VISUAL: Close up of laptop screen showing Minecraft log on page, then select world page, then create new world page. Camera is looking over Brendan’s left shoulder.

Brendan Keogh: ... feel empathy with other people that with this medium where you can literally ...

VISUAL: Close up of laptop keyboard with part of Brendan’s right hand hovering over the keyboard (the rest of his hand is obscured by his right shoulder).

Brendan Keogh: ... step into other people's shoes ...

VISUAL: Brendan Keogh speaking to the camera and smiling at the end.

Brendan Keogh: ... there's a lot there to lose.

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