Abstract
Audio-visual video as a data generation tool enables researchers to repeatedly view immensely rich, detailed footage of people in their lived worlds, while the visual and aural veracity of the medium adds valuable fine-grained data to narrative and ethnographic studies. However, there are ethical and methodological challenges in documenting, analysing and storying such data in narrative inquiry approaches. In a collective case study examining the cultural habits of three eminent tertiary classical singing teachers, the teachers videoed several hours of one-to-one lessons with their undergraduate students over the course of a semester. After repeated views of the video footage, several excerpts were transcribed and formed into discrete scenes within larger narratives. Using one such scene as exemplar, participants’ conversation, song, gesture, music and the lived space are described and transcribed, shaped into a storied excerpt, and analysed. This chapter discusses the use of video in the study and considers some of the benefits and hazards of storying video data in narrative inquiry methods.