Workshop on educational filmmaking
“24 truths” is part of the relationship established between the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation (FCAYC) and the Colegio Rural Agrupado Ribera del Porma. It is the second experience in the field of audiovisual education developed by the audiovisual producer Ismael Aveleira in collaboration with the education area of the FCAYC.
Following last year's project “El cine de la Almohada”, this workshop aims to give continuity and normalize the film education and media literacy at school, consolidating and expanding knowledge through the implementation of a new exercise. The course will take place at the school time over four sessions in the four schools that make up the CRA Ribera del Porma with students from first to sixth grade of primary school.
This year the proposal consisted of making “small educational films” which the pupils carried out in groups. The main tasks have been: research on a specific subject of the educational curriculum (paying special attention to the cross-cutting issues), the formulation of different possibilities of representation of the themes and experimentation with the audiovisual communication techniques.
The methodologies employed during the course of the project are based on collective creation and the active participation of the children. Efforts are oriented more towards the learning process than towards the production of a final product. The project explores tools with the pupils to construct stories and tales in audiovisual format but also to learn how to narrate themselves during the production of the stories.
This aspect has been reflected in a video summary of each of the four days that we have jointly produced with the aim of documenting, giving visibility and sharing what happened during the workshop.
This initiative takes as a reference the different historical experiences of approaching cinema as a medium for knowledge, starting from the theories developed by Roberto Rossellini in texts such as A free spirit must not learn as a slave: writings on film and education.
