CAMERA IN ACTION

The projet:

The productions consisted of a documentary, a fictional short story and a report describing the daily life experiences of these young people.
The activities involved developing scripts and scenarios, designing stage sets, as well as testing and filming.
The premieres of the productions were in the "Cines Modern" in Logroño and were attended by 300 people.

Objectives

-To give young people with learning difficulties the opportunity to be creators of the own audio visual productions.

-To show them to the local community.

-To harness non formal education and use it as a learning tool.

-To foster the development of creative abilities in young people.

-To offer knowledge and awareness about this group of young people to the local community.

Outcomes

Good point & advice:

- The project was created for young people with learning difficulties.
- The creation of a product that works as a learning tool and increases awareness in society.
- It is a project that promotes learning through the medium of non formal education.
- The participants developed verbal and non verbal communication skills, as well as the management of audiovisual equipment.

We think that it is necessary to build more materials to raise people's awareness about the lives of people living with learning difficulties.
For this the projects must testify to their lives and the participants must participate in all of the phases of the project.

This is only possible if the young people with learning disabilities are part of an association and have a tutor to help, guide and support them.

Difficulties:

The most difficult part of the project was testing the scenes. Due to the profiles of the protagonists, it was very difficult for them to learn the text or repeat the scenes.

Budget

The Spanish National Agency for the programme "Youth in Action", granted us a subsidy of 8000€ for this project.
Inter Europa has co financed the project with a camera costing 3000€.
The Riojano Institute of Youth has contributed 800€.