All Videos

The rationale for submitting your research in an audio-visual format is that a demonstration or representation in an audio-visual format is the most effective way of presenting your research. It should NOT be a written text paper read over the top of some visual content. Your documentation of the practice and/or the musical content should demonstrate how your research addresses some problem or question more effectively than a text-based description or analysis. Of course, you will need to use words extensively but a major component of the research should be communicated by visual or audible means.

There is no fixed structure for the format but there should be a clearly stated problem or question and some indication of the research context – what other work has or is being done in this area. It should be clear what you did and how it addressed the problem / question. It should also be clear how you consider that activity produced some form of ‘result’ as well as how and why you consider (or can demonstrate) that it shed some light on the problem. It should also be clear what conclusions you have drawn from the research process – even if these are provisional or inconclusive.

You will be sent a link to a Google Drive folder and should upload your video to that. You will also find the 20s C21MP title slide for your video in that folder.

All videos should start with the C21MP format for a title slide which should last 20 seconds before the video format starts (e.g. submitted videos may be 20m +/- 10% plus 20s or 60m +/- 10% plus 20s). The title slide will be in the Google Drive folder.

Use a Landscape 16:9 format such as 1920 x 1080 pixels and audio at 44.1 or 48kHz

For any text and graphics in the video please use black Arial text on a white background – whatever size you think is appropriate.

20 Minute Format

Videos for this format should be between 18m 20s and 22m 20s (including the 20s title slide).

There is no right or wrong format for this but a guide for those who want this kind of guideline would be around 5 minutes of describing the problem, context and methods (what you did to gather evidence / information and document your practice); around 13 minutes that uses selections from that evidence / documentation (e.g. salient moments, re-enactments or schematic representations) to show some results of the research process and a discussion or demonstration of why they are important in regard to the problem; a 2 minute concluding section that somehow summarises and/or discusses the light that you have shed on the research problem. 

60 Minute Format

Videos for this format should be between 54m 20s and 66m 20s (including the 20s title slide). With this longer format it would be helpful to divide the video into sections / chapters with 5 or 10 second section title slides.

There is no right or wrong format for this but we envisage four primary formats – a focused study, the Research Challenge format, the Online Research Challenge and the Idea Duet format.

Focused Study

A rough guide would be around 15 minutes of describing the problem, context and methods (show and explain what you did to gather evidence / information and document your practice); around 39 minutes that uses selections from that evidence / documentation (e.g. salient moments, re-enactments or schematic representations) to show some results of the research process and a discussion or demonstration of why they are important in regard to the problem; a 6 minute concluding section that somehow summarises and/or discusses the light that you have shed on the research problem. If you are thinking of a recital presentation of a new work or a novel performance of an existing work, there does need to be a clear research framing.

Research Challenge

The format is established (group experimentation over a fixed period of time to explore a problem / challenge) and so there is less need for a description of the method. A rough guide would be 5 minutes that state the Research Challenge, something about the context and who the participants are; 35 minutes that makes any relevant points about the method that are not covered by the general format description but mostly uses selections from that evidence / documentation (e.g. salient moments, re-enactments or schematic representations) to show some results of the research process. 20 minutes that summarises the ‘de-briefing’ discussion that took place at the end of the Research Challenge that somehow summarises and/or discusses the light that you have shed on the research problem.

Online Research Challenge

This format is also established (researchers work in pairs by exchanging videos that demonstrate some approach / activity they have adopted to address the research problem and using each other’s videos as a spur to further thought and/or experimentation) and so the same applies about the method. A rough guide would be 5 minutes that state the Research Challenge, something about the context and who the participants (a and b) are; 10 minutes each on a and b’s initial videos that makes any relevant points about the method that are not covered by the general format description but mostly uses selections from that evidence / documentation (e.g. salient moments, re-enactments or schematic representations) to show some results of the research process. This is followed by two further 10 minute sections where a reflects on and responds to b’s video and vice versa. Another two 10 minute sections are for a and b to discuss a’s videos and then b’s videos in turn. Finally there are 15 minutes of ‘de-briefing’ discussion that took place at the end of the Research Challenge that somehow summarises and/or discusses the light that they have shed on the research problem.

Idea Duet

This format is also established (researchers work in pairs in real time experimentation to explore how two different approaches or conceptualisations of the research problem might be brought together to shed new light on it) and so the same applies about the method. A rough guide would be that 15 minutes are used to state the problem and the different approaches the participants are bringing to the process. 30 minutes make any relevant points about the method that are not covered by the general format description but mostly use selections from the evidence / documentation of the experimentation (e.g. salient moments, re-enactments or schematic representations) to show some results of the research process. 15 minutes summarise the ‘de-briefing’ discussion that took place at the end of the Idea Duet that somehow summarises and/or discusses the light that has been shed on the research problem.

Bibliography

Provide a bibliography list that includes all cited texts / media and contextual references that you consider have informed your thinking / practice (even if not cited on screen). Use the Cite Then Right Harvard system.  Provide this as a separate text document (RTF or Word) NOT as a final ‘slide’ in the video. These will be included on the website underneath the embedded video. If you mention a source in the voice over / commentary or a concept that requires a reference, please cite it on the bottom of the screen (or elsewhere if it is clearer) as author(s) and publication year of a source you are referring to, and a page or paragraph number if relevant.