Quickened - A Video iBook

BACKGROUND 'Quickened - A Video Book' is situated in the intersection between new media practice and research, creative nonfiction, and digital humanities, specifically in the context of emerging experimental forms of documentary practice. It 'rethinks' video and audio so that it is now packaged within an iBook as something book like, exploring the affordances and possibilities of electronic formats for video and documentary. The research question investigated in this specific work is to what extent a methodology of noticing can be employed to create observational, non-narrative, nonfiction works that, when designed for the iPad/iBook system, enable an intimate, personal and private (novel like) videographic experience, in contrast to the highly socialised norms of cinema going and television viewing. CONTRIBUTION The work remains one of the few experiments available that specifically considers the question or problem of the 'video book' as a possible form, and is an innovative contribution to creative nonfiction as it employes the commonly recognised model of the 'book' for nontraditional content (video and sound). The interdisciplinarity of the project is important because it offers an example and model for creative nonfiction, documentary, media studies, and experimental forms of academic humanities 'labour' for the digital humanities. It achieves this by relying upon ready to hand and easily accessible technologies, which in turn allows the project to raise questions about audiences and audiovisual content in an age of personal media devices. SIGNIFICANCE The creative work underwent peer review to be included within Axon (a peer reviewed journal of creative practice). It has been used as a example of innovative work in courses managed by several of the contributors, and has been discussed by peers at a national conference (Australian Screen Production and Education Research Association, Melbourne, July 2013).

一、研究背景
《Quickened——影像书（Video Book）》立足新媒体实践与研究、创意非虚构创作（creative nonfiction）以及数字人文（digital humanities）的交叉领域，尤其聚焦于新兴实验性纪录片创作实践的语境。该作品重新审视影像与声音的呈现形式，将其整合进iBook平台并打造为类书籍形态，探索电子格式在影像与纪录片创作中的可供性（affordances）与发展可能。本作品的核心研究问题为：在面向iPad/iBook平台系统设计的前提下，如何通过觉察方法论（methodology of noticing）打造观察式、非叙事性的非虚构作品，从而实现沉浸式、个人化且私密的类小说式影像体验，这与影院观影与电视收视的高度社交化范式形成鲜明对比。
二、研究贡献
本作品是目前少数专门探讨“影像书（Video Book）”作为可行创作形式的实验项目之一；其以大众熟知的“书籍”形态承载非传统的影像与声音内容，为创意非虚构创作（creative nonfiction）提供了创新性的实践路径。本项目的跨学科属性具有重要价值：它为创意非虚构创作、纪录片创作、媒介研究以及数字人文（digital humanities）领域的实验性学术人文研究实践提供了参考范式与实践模型。本项目依托便捷易得的通用技术开展研究，进而得以在个人媒体设备普及的时代背景下，探讨受众与视听内容的相关议题。
三、研究意义
该创意创作作品通过同行评审，被收录至《Axon》（创意实践领域同行评审期刊）。其作为创新性实践案例被多位项目参与者用于相关课程教学，并在2013年7月于墨尔本举办的澳大利亚银幕制作与教育研究协会（Australian Screen Production and Education Research Association）全国学术会议上被同行研讨。