EDUCOM.CINE
Video Workshop Organiser and Instructor, 2015 to 2021. Education, Language and Art Lab (LELA), University of the State of Santa Catarina (UDESC).
The programme
Educom.cine was a participatory action research programme at UDESC, coordinated by Dr Rafael Gué Martini as part of his doctoral research. For six years it ran filmmaking workshops in public schools on the outskirts of Florianópolis, where students and teachers wrote, shot and edited films about issues around their own school.
The programme used educommunication: the idea that people learn by producing media together, not only by consuming it. Each film took an issue from around the school as its subject.
My role
I joined in the first year of my Visual Arts degree and stayed for six years. I delivered more than 50 video and animation workshops for over 200 participants, trained and managed a team of assistant instructors, and directed and edited more than 12 short films with school students.
Films
Luz, Câmera, Educom! [Lights, Camera, Educom!], 2015
Workshop Facilitator, Production Assistant and Sound Editor.
Documentary made with primary school students and teachers about sustainability challenges around their school. TV UFSC programming (2016); Florianópolis Children's Film Festival (2018).
Vida.com [Life.com], 2016
Workshop Instructor and Videographer.
Documentary on access to public health around the school, including teenage pregnancy. The students interviewed local health workers.
Mais um dia Triste [Another Sad Day], 2016
Workshop Facilitator and Editor.
A student and his sorrows, in a film made by students at the school. Florianópolis Children's Film Festival, Basic Education Congress (COEB) screening, CineOP and TV Escola programming (all 2018).
O Preconceito Perdeu [Prejudice Has Lost], 2017
Workshop Facilitator and Editor.
A school newspaper called Blablabla sets out to report on a war between colours at the school. Along the way, things that are ordinary for the students happen, and they ask everyone to rethink whether this is the world we want for future generations. Made with the federal Programa Novo Mais Educação. Florianópolis Children's Film Festival and COEB screening (2018).
A Maldição da Cachoeira [The Curse of the Waterfall], 2019
Workshop Developer and Facilitator.
Seven-minute horror film written, shot and edited by students in years 6 to 9 (see the case study below). It ends with a message on depression and anxiety.
Os Pipocas [The Popcorns], 2019
Director, Workshop Facilitator and Editor.
Two-minute stop-motion animation. Students learned stop-motion in three meetings, wrote short stories and animated them with cardboard sets, puppets and chroma key; this was one of them. Selected for the 19th Florianópolis Children's Film Festival, held online in 2020.
Case study: A Maldição da Cachoeira
In 2019, at a municipal school in Florianópolis, students aged 11 to 15 (years 6 to 9) made a fiction film from start to finish. They began by discussing environmental issues around a reservoir near the school, which led to the idea of a horror film. They wrote the synopsis together, drew a storyboard, cast the film and chose their own crew roles. Most wanted to be camera operators; some discovered editing. The film was shot in two sessions, at the reservoir and at the school, and edited in two meetings. After discussing the subject, the group changed the ending, and A Maldição da Cachoeira [The Curse of the Waterfall] now closes with a message on depression and anxiety.
Links
- Educom.cine on YouTube
- Martini, R.G., de Oliveira, L., Rosa, I., Lazaro, J. and Silene, S. (2023) 'Educom.Cine: produção áudio-scripto-visual colaborativa na educação básica'. In Soares, I. de O. et al. (eds) Educomunicação e Educação Midiática nas Práticas Sociais e Tecnológicas pelos Direitos Humanos e Direitos da Terra. São Paulo: ABPEducom, pp. 549 to 567. Book
- Lazaro, J., Martini, R.G., Lins, J.S., Varela, M.L.D. and Vanderlinde, R. (2021) 'Educom.Cine: uma experiência de extensão universitária integrada ao Programa Novo Mais Educação'. In Soares, I. de O. and Viana, C.E. (eds) Trajetórias da Educomunicação nas Políticas Públicas e a Formação de seus Profissionais. São Paulo: ABPEducom, pp. 232 to 248. Book