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Service Learning Experiences in the Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication

Bachelor's thesis - Short film on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (TOC)

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona Branch of the Official Association of Psychologists.
  • Summary: Production of the fictional short film '08:49' in which the main character is affected by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), regarded as the fourth most common psychological disorder, ahead of schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa. The intention of the team of students was for the short film to help viewers with OCD to identify with the illness and to help them move forward in the process of learning to cope with the disorder. It is thus an instrument for understanding the development and processes that people with OCD go through. To do this, the students undertook a process of theoretical documentation with the advice and support of experts from the Tarragona delegation of the Association of Psychologists of Catalonia, who reviewed the script of the film to ensure that it clearly reflected the illness. For its part, the Association of Psychologists of Catalonia used the film to raise awareness of OCD via social media and in workshops aimed at different audiences.The final product was distributed to short-film festivals and mental health and educational centres. It was shown to the general public for the first time in the Main Lecture Theatre of the URV on 21 June 2018.

Bachelor's thesis - Audiovisual work for raising awareness of miscarriage and perinatal infant death

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Dol d'Estels.
  • Summary: "Del dol a l'amor" (From grieving to love) is an audiovisual work by three students on the Bachelor's Thesis in Audiovisual Communication during the 2018-2019 academic year. The aim was that it should be, on one hand, a tool for helping parents who have suffered a miscarriage or the perinatal death of a child, and on the other, an instrument for raising public awareness regarding this hidden and taboo subject. After consulting extensive documentation and interviewing experts, the students selected and scripted suitable individuals so that they could describe their experiences in a documentary. The hope was to develop a prominent presence on social media and to create informative material that could reach different aid groups.

Bachelor's thesis - Diffusion of Catalan in the European Ambit

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Plataforma per la Llengua (Platform for the Language).
  • Summary: Plataforma per la Llengua is a non-governmental organisation that works to promote the Catalan language as an instrument of social cohesion. It works in the different Catalan-speaking territories and across the socio-economic and audiovisual sphere, in the linguistic welcoming and settlement for new-comers, in the universities, in education and the administrations, to mention but some of its target areas. During this Bachelor's Thesis in the 2018-2019 academic year, three Audiovisual Communication students created the documentary ALATAC, which aimed to help the Plataforma per la Llengua to publicise the situation of discrimination against Catalan in the European Union. The students worked with the organisation on the documentation and production phase, which involved conducting multiple interviews and recording important testimonies in Barcelona and at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Infodesign

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Federació d'Associacions de Veïns de Reus, Federació d'Associacions de Veïns de Tarragona (Federation of Neighbours's Associations of Reus and of Tarragona)
  • Summary: Group practice in which students interact with different neighbourhood associations in Reus or Tarragona with the aim of analysing their problems and explaining them to representatives of municipal council groups in order to open up avenues for new solutions. Students develop skills in interpreting, producing and transmitting a message effectively through different channels and media and to different audiences. One of the two final practicums aims to get the students to use the tools and techniques for presenting the information that they have developed so far, such as diagrams, graphics, animations and maps. The students document themselves, conduct interviews, consult archives and other sources (for a month and a half) in order to generate a discursive strategy and graphic material that they present orally in a presentation open to the public. The aim of the activity, in addition to promoting their social engagement, is for the students to acquire the communication skills needed to construct a discourse, such as deciding on the structure and strategy of the presentation, aspects of speech, non-verbal communication and the design of the presentation material. The aim was, on the one hand, to generate a learning environment that would provide students with sufficient motivation and tension to help them adequately prepare their presentation and, on the other hand, for them to experiment and analyse the reception of their message while addressing a real audience.

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Bachelor's thesis - Ubuntu, documentary on the structural violence suffered by the trans and migrant community

  • Coordination: Ester Sánchez Llauradó (ester.sanchez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: ACATHI Association - Migración, asilo y diversidad LGBTI (ACATHI Association - LGBTI migration, asylum and diversity).
  • Summary: Ubuntu is a Bachelor's Thesis project on the Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication studies that, through theoretical research and audiovisual work, examines the violence that transgender people are subjected to. Specifically, it focuses on the experience of three people, two of them of migrant origin, in order to reflect on how this type of violence influences the construction of their identity and the functioning of their lives.

Audiovisual genres and formats

  • Coordination: Núria Araüna Baró (nuria.arauna(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Ajuntament de Tarragona - Conselleria de Joventut (Tarragona City Council - Department for Youth).
  • Summary: Group practice where students have to establish contact with different associations, organisations or young people in Tarragona with the aim of making a documentary short film that explores issues about youth and gender in the city. The students learn the skills needed to make a documentary short film that is based on real people and situations. Some of these skills are: recording images, editing in editing rooms, retouching the first script, organising an online film series and the public screening of their work. This is an effective way for students to put into practice the skills they have learnt on this course in an activity that seeks to recreate what it would be like to receive a professional commission from the Department of Youth. Furthermore, bearing in mind that the students are also young people and that different gender issues are part of the current public debate, we believe that this activity could be of interest to them. The aim of the activity, in addition to the script being used in a short documentary film, is for the students to reflect on and become aware of issues related to different gender identities and to relate empathetically and with respect towards the protagonists of their audiovisual works. The documentary is intended for a reflexive and critical audience, rather than mere entertainment. Through this collaboration with the Department of Youth of Tarragona, the aim is to encourage our students to become thoughtful, critical and creative filmmakers who are fully engaged with their environment.

Narrative and audiovisual script

  • Coordination: Laia Quílez Esteve (laia.quilez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Ajuntament de Tarragona - Conselleria de Joventut (Tarragona City Council - Department for Youth).
  • Summary: Group practical where students have to establish contact with various associations, organisations or young people in Tarragona, with the aim of writing a documentary script project that explores issues surrounding youth and gender in the city. The students learn the skills needed to produce a documentary script based on real people and situations. Some of these skills are: documentation and researching initial contacts, conducting interviews and other field work, location scouting and the technical and creative writing of the audiovisual script. This is an effective way for students to put into practice the skills they have learnt on this course in an activity that seeks to recreate what it would like to receive a professional commission from the Department of Youth. Furthermore, bearing in mind that the students are also young people and that different gender issues are part of the current public debate, we believe that this activity could be of interest to them. The aim of the activity, in addition to using the script in a short documentary film, is for the students to reflect on and become aware of issues related to different gender identities and to relate empathetically and with respect towards the protagonists of their audiovisual works. The documentary is intended for a reflexive and critical audience, rather than mere entertainment. Through this collaboration with the Department of Youth of Tarragona, the aim is to encourage our students to become thoughtful, critical and creative filmmakers who fully engaged with their environment.

Bachelor's thesis - Creation of material for communicating and disseminating knowledge about retinoblastoma

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Associació Miradas Mágicas (Miradas Mágicas Association).
  • Summary: The students on the Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication carried out different informative and awareness-raising actions during their Bachelor's Thesis that helped to bring society closer to the 'AENAR Miradas Mágicas' association, which consists of families with children affected by the rare disease retinoblastoma, which generates tumours in the eyes of children. After discussions with members of the association, they carried out various actions, such as creating communication and informative materials such as posters and videos for the early detection of the disease, and reformulating the website by creating community manager actions/campaigns in various social media such as Instagram or Facebook.
  • The result can be seen on the Organisation's website: www.miradasmagicas.org

Bachelor's thesis - Documentary series on intellectual disability

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella López (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat(ELIMINAR))
  • Community organization: Taller Baix Camp (Baix Camp Workshop)
  • Summary: Bachelor's Thesis project for the 2022-2023 academic year, on the production of a documentary series of three approximately seven-minute-long chapters whose protagonists are users of the Baix Camp Employment Workshop. In the episodes, the viewer learns about the day-to-day lives of the people with intellectual disabilities who attend the workshop and about how they live, work and socialise to achieve the greatest possible independence. Taller Baix Camp is a non-profit organisation based in Reus that works for all people with intellectual disabilities and their families in the Baix Camp region. Its mission is to offer the necessary support to people with intellectual disabilities and their families to improve their quality of life.