Abstract:

Methods for approaching the achievement of a creative output vary vastly between creative disciplines. So what happens when students of Film, who learn a hierarchal, linear method for storytelling, collaborate on a project with students of Contemporary Dance, who learn a more decentralized, individual or team based creative process? How do they negotiate the journey toward a commonly created project? Both Film and Contemporary Dance deal with movement, both deal with emotion, both generally require an audience for ultimate delivery of their work. But the pathways speak very different languages.

This is the story of students from these two very different creative disciplines – put together in a course in mobile phone moviemaking. Their challenge was simple: to collaborate on a movie of their own devising. But their journey to achieve this was complex, and filled with rich metacognitive learning for students and lecturer alike. The result was an emerging method for interdisciplinary creative collaboration.

Keywords:

Interdisciplinary, creative, collaboration.