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MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE<br />
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices<br />
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own goals, to fixed-term work, to resolve disputes, to distribute responsibilities<br />
between the groups and so on" (Buckingham, 2005:140).<br />
c. The projection<br />
The other day my dad and I were talking about The Golden Disc 11 travelling on<br />
the Voyager spacecraft since 1977. Carl Sagan, the project director, put 115<br />
pictures, plus sounds and music from different parts and ages of the world to tell<br />
what humans are in case someone or "something" would contact us.<br />
This initiative always has caught my attention because it makes me think of the<br />
constant human interest to show to others that they were here. Like the Golden<br />
Disk, the audiovisual works that students performed in the Film Workshop Basic<br />
Level provides an opportunity to demonstrate their effort, creativity and<br />
worldview through a socially valued physical element that has invited the<br />
student to leave a mark forever. It is not just to learn concepts about cinema<br />
but, as well, raises the student's ability to communicate using the visual<br />
language.<br />
At the end of the course is organized a closure show. This is the final event<br />
which invites guardians, relatives, friends of the students, and so on so they can<br />
see the presentation of the various tasks performed. Students return to Ludica<br />
walking differently, kids and teenagers from Film Workshop are now audiovisual<br />
producers showing and explaining to their guests the short films they have<br />
created.<br />
There are more activities to come even after the workshop has ended. Final<br />
short films are sent to film festivals all around the world and different<br />
presentation are organized in colleges and universities interested in displaying.<br />
In these cases, the children are the ones who introduce their work and<br />
departing on it, based on questions from the audience, listening to views about<br />
it, etc.<br />
This closing process is, at the same time, an open path to more opportunities.<br />
The film projected silently admired by viewers certifies (without doing it literally)<br />
that a group of boys, at one point in their lives, together, did everything to make<br />
things right, and that is the most valuable thing they could have learned.<br />
3.2.2. The tripod<br />
There are three essential pillars that will help achieve the objectives at the Film<br />
Workshop Basic Level:<br />
1 http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html<br />
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