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Creative reuse, bricolage and personal soundtracks: reducing the environmental impact of creative work with [SILENT] FILMS
2024
Abstract
Research Background
The environmental impact of creative work is an increasing concern in the carbon footprint of production and digital distribution (Brennan et al 2020, Marks 2020). Whilst creative reuse and bricolage are strategies used commonly to reduce the financial cost of creative work, they are now gaining momentum as environmental cost interventions (Hayward 2024). Surreal audiovisual comedy is a notable site of innovation in the bricolage and reuse of materials, notably in the works of Monty Python, Quentin Smirhes and Noel Fielding. This project explores the question: how can a comedic approach to creative reuse and bricolage help to reduce the environmental impact of audiovisual creative work?
Research Contribution
[SILENT] FILMS is a 7min collection of sketch comedy style videos that use captions to communicate “audio” elements of dialogue, voice-over, music and sound effects. The lack of audio encourages audiences to create the soundtrack for themselves via the creative reuse and bricolage of sounds in their own personal and cultural intertextual memory. It builds on industrial knowledge and scholarship of the creativity and techniques of captioning, prevalent in discourses around accessibility (Berry 2024, Zdenek 2015). The environmental impact of creating and distributing this video-only work is minimised in lower electricity needs and smaller data streaming rates.
Research Significance
Premiering on 25 July 2024 at Light Industry’s Arts and Manufacturing Showcase in Kunda Park, the work is part of a QLD Arts Council commission connecting manufacturing with creative industries which is now the focus of a national consortium of stakeholders and associated funding schemes. Over 300 hundred people were in attendance including local and state government representatives and delegates from Creative Australia. The work informs the development of HallowGreen 2025, a Halloween-based circular economy and creative reuse event celebrating the region’s light industrial sector.
Details
- Title
- Creative reuse, bricolage and personal soundtracks: reducing the environmental impact of creative work with [SILENT] FILMS
- Authors
- Briony Luttrell (Researcher) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesHannah Joyce Banks (Researcher) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Date published
- 2024
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991080798602621
- Output Type
- Other creative works
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