Dissertation for the degree of Master of Design: Fact, Fiction and Folk Horror: A Cross-Genre Experiment in Music Biopic Screenwriting

This dissertation "Fact, Fiction and Folk Horror: A Cross-Genre Experiment in Music Biopic Screenwriting" is bifurcated, to highlight the transformation of the screenplay from its conventional original form to its unconventional re-visioned form: Part One is the diagnostic phase; Part Two is remedial. Or, in keeping with the project’s horrorcentricity, it is perhaps fitting to describe Part One as a forensic autopsy of a deceased screenwriting project – albeit one possessing the ability to haunt its creator from the grave – and Part Two as an account of my attempts to resurrect it.