My Unhallowed Arts: Hybridising and Remixing the Creation Scene from Frankenstein to Stitch Together New Screenwriting Methods

My field of research is media and communication, specifically developing new methods of screenwriting. This type of research is necessary so that creative works ‘can be seen as a legitimate and important research practice’ (Baker et al., 2015, p. 9). The methodologies I utilised were a combination of creative practice with adaptation theory. Creative practice research involves ‘making a creative work and/or in the documentation and theorisation of that work’ (Smith & Dean, 2009, p. 2). The main method I employed was iterative experiments, which involved adapting the creation scene from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in multiple iterations. This was accomplished by ‘adapting’ scholars’ research into creative practice methods and then using those methods to write the scenes. I am looking to further practice-based research and pioneer new creative practice methods and, in doing so, gain deeper understandings of genre hybridity and remix culture through the lens of adaptation studies.<p></p>