What is YIDOCM? YOUNGSTERS I.DOC MAKERS (YIDOCM). YOUNGSTERS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, MEDIA & VET IN THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL CONTEXT, is an innovative applied audiovisual project developed by vocational students who study Image, Sound and Graphic Arts in different European technical schools. YIDOCM put the cap on the evolution of the framework project “Los jóvenes vistos por los jóvenes” towards the digital interactive settings within the current communicative context. How to adapt the changes in the international audiovisual context is important for the future professionals of the audiovisual field who are studying in the participants schools. Taking into account the convergence in internet of the conventional social media, and with a close symbiosis with the social networks thanks to the development of the new communication technologies, the documentary genre has experienced important changes which evolve into a transmedia treatment of the projects, they give interactivity to the documentary genre and they expand the short story thanks to the webdoc development. InYIDOCM, The young students from the participants schools are responsible of the cooperative creation processes of a transmedia documentary speech, which is more original and an alternative to the hegemonic speech of the communication means. This is around two main topics, they are very important in the current horizon: Climate change and the migratory flows in Europe. YIDOCM exceeds the goals of the most common projects in education-communication, Because they have got that the multiplatform speech of the creative youngsters get the main means of communication (TV and Cinema), as well as the on-line distribution thanks to the interactive webdoc of the project. YIDOCM also promotes the development of professional and crosscurricular competences, specially in peer to peer or equals communication, communication in English, audiovisual and graphic innovation and the cooperative and entrepreneurial spirit. Besides, participating in the project increases and promotes employability and the transition to the job market of these youngsters. YIDOCM continues in the same working line in the project “ Los Jóvenes vistos por los Jóvenes” with the aim of generating methodological innovations which allow the professional audiovisual coproduction among european students, always searchig the students´ original point of view related to the given topic. We have an original methodology designed and tested in previous projects, to work with the youngster “framing” related to relevant social topics, specifically in YIDOCM these topics are the climate change and the migratory flows in Europe. The students in the five participants schools will develop the central idea of the project webdoc, the scrips, the project graphic design, the audiovisual preproduction, the recording and the edition of each piece of the interactive documentary, all these pieces will make up the central video of the webdoc. All this work will be under the teachers´ supervision and orientation of all the schools during the six different phases in the two years project development. Who are the participants? The main participants in this projects are the following schools: OSZ ERNST LITFASS in Berlin, Istituto ROBERTO ROSSELLINI in Rome, BERUFSSCHULE FÜR CHEMIE, GRAFIK UN GESTALTTENDE BERUFE in Vienna, IES CLARA DEL REY in Madrid, PLAY ACCIÓ CULTURAL in Tarragona and IES PUERTA BONITA in Madrid. To these net of schools, other associate partners have been incorporated, institutions like Cinematography and audiovisual arts institute (ICAA) which belong to the Ministry of culture, the TV educative program “ La aventura de saber” of TVE, and three resarchig university groups specialized in the study of the climate change and migrations through communication. To all these participants will add cooperative companies with the hosting and the webdoc programming and the international festival responsible of the organization of the final project workshop. What are the expecting results? The main results are the following ones: – A documentary interactive webdoc, including the interactive version of the created documentary as a central video of the web and the expanded contents around the developed topics. – An original creation documentary with professional audiovisual quality which will be distribute on television, specialized festivals, conferences and audiovisual meetings for youngsters in Europe. – Study about the professional competences developed by the students in YIDOCM. – Study about the inmigration social representation and the climate change in the European youngsters and the evolution of this representation after the students´ paticipation in YIDOCM. – Didactic guides to use the project audiovisual contents as tools to teach the crosscurricular topics link to migrations and climate change.
YOUNGSTERS I.DOC MAKERS (YIDOCM). YOUNGSTERS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES is an applied audiovisual innovation project developed by young students from professional education centers of Image and Sound, Graphic Arts and Informatics in Europe. YIDOCM culminates the evolution of the project "Youth seen by young people" towards interactive digital environments within the current communicative context. This project promotes the adaptation of schools and future professionals to changes in the online audiovisual context. Given the convergence of conventional media in the internet, in close symbiosis with social networks thanks to the development of new communication technologies, documentary genre have undergone important changes that result in a transmedia treatment of projects, providing interactivity to the documentary genre and expanding the story thanks to the development of the webdoc. The specific objectives of YIDOCM have been: - Development of new formal and non-formal skills of students in the Audiovisual, Graphic and Computer sectors of the participating schools (Transmedia Literacy: Media & Digital Literacy Competences). - Guarantee the access of the original discourse of young people to the Media Communication in their different levels of coverage and distribution platforms. - Promote the knowledge and critical capacity of young people around key issues for the future of Europe. - Elaboration of guides and audiovisual contents adapted to lower educational stages. - Consolidation of an expandable strategic network of VET centers in the audiovisual, graphic and information technology sectors. YIDOCM surpasses the objectives of the most common educational projects, by making the multiplatform discourse of young creators reach the main conventional media as well as online distribution thanks to the webdoc. The young students of the participating centers have been the protagonists of the processes of collaborative creation of a documentary discourse original and alternative to the hegemonic discourse of the media around two especially relevant issues in the current horizon: climate change and flows migratory movements in Europe. YIDOCM has promoted the development of professional and transversal competences, particularly in the field of peer communication, communication in English, audiovisual and graphic innovation and the entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit. The formal partners of this project were five OSZ ERNST LITFASS schools in Berlin, the ROBERTO ROSSELLINI institute in Rome, BERUFSSCHULE FÜR CHEMIE, GRAFIK UN GESTALTTENDE BERUFE in Vienna and the IES CLARA DEL REY and PUERTA BONITA (Coordinator), both from Madrid. The sixth partner has been the Play Acció Cultural Association, organizer of the Tarragona REC Festival and responsible for the Project Events. The non-formal partners of YTIDOCM have been the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) of the Ministry of Culture, the educational program "La Aventura del Saber" TVE, the National Environmental Education Center and several university research groups specializing in study of the communication of climate change and / or migrations, especially the MDCS group of the Complutense University of Madrid, the IN_COM group of the University of Barcelona and the SEPA group of the University of Santiago de Compostela, among others. Throughout the project, important collaborations have been added, such as the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, whose students have created the original musics of the project. It also highlights the collaboration of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, the TV channel Okto TV in Vienna and the special collaboration of the company Music Library & SFX. The main results have been: - The creation documentary "The Climate Puppets, cut the ropes", produced by the young people of the schools described and distributed in specialized European festivals, in television and also in congresses and forums specialized in education and communication of climate change. - The documentary website www.theclimatepuppets.eu which includes the interactive version of the creation documentary as the central video of the web and the contents expanded around the themes developed. - Study on the social representation of immigration and climate change in young Europeans and the evolution of the same after the experience of young participants in YIDOCM - Study on the professional skills of young people developed at YIDOCM. - Teaching guides for the use of audiovisual content created by young people as tools for the teaching of cross-curricular themes related to migration and climate change.