Câmera e vídeo na escola: quem conta o que sobre quem?

Abstract

This article relates an experience in audiovisual literacy by the realization of video workshops with teenagers and teachers of some municipal public schools of the city of São Paulo. Participants go through all the basic steps of a video production – script, production, camera, interview, and interpretation. During audiovisual narratives, they understand fundamental elements of audiovisual language and express their own cultural universe. Literacy happens when the workshops demistify equipment and stimulate its use, revealing the resources of audiovisual language and redeems the participants’ passive repertory. To produce speeches with quality is the key for a transforming pedagogical dynamic. The produced videos show a very different school universe from the representations of broadcasting corporations, opposing images of the public school to television stereotypes.