Screen Production Research by Craig Batty & Susan Kerrigan

Author:Craig Batty & Susan Kerrigan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The Semi-Fictionalised

The third form identified by Humphreys and Watson is semi-fictionalised ethnography , which restructures events occurring within one or more observations into a single narrative using devices drawn from fictional writing. This is really useful when using research material that is sensitive and where identities need to be protected. The truth of semi-fictionalised ethnographic accounts is pragmatic. They present accurate renditions of what happened where there are contrasting and contested versions of events. Humphreys and Watson present a semi-fictionalised example drawn from Humphreys’s ethnographic study of corporate narratives. He found competing narratives and merged personalities to create a character called Charity to represent ‘those individuals who felt marginalized and somewhat at odds with most of the mainstream financial, marketing and IT specialists who were the core staff of the organization’ (Humphreys and Watson 2009‚ p. 50). Humphreys writes an account of his fieldwork that is an amalgamation of events with composite characters that presents a short biography of Charity, one of the research subjects, to show how management roles in large finance corporations can cause internal values conflicts for women from working-class backgrounds. Creative practice researchers reflecting on their career experiences can use this technique.

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