Dissertation for the degree of Master of Design

This dissertation presents a creative practice-based experiment in civil celebrancy with the focus on contemporary celebrancy. The dissertation constructs and reflects upon a Ceremony of Restoration to give meaning, healing, and mending for people’s lives in the wake of traumatic, chaotic, and unresolved events. This ceremony can be used by the person, or people, at its centre to give expression to such experiences and feelings and to build resilience through a secular ritual involving their stories, memories, images, personal artefacts, and music.

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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.

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