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

Final Degree Project - Short fictional film on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Delegación de Tarragona del Colegio Oficial de Psicolo.
  • Summary: This project involved the production of a short (08:49) fictional film whose protagonist is affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This disorder is considered the fourth most common psychological disorder, ahead of schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa. With this film, the students aimed to encourage viewers to identify with the illness and help them learn how to live with it, i.e. to create an instrument to help people understand how this disorder develops and identify what processes are involved for those who suffer from it. To do so, they documented the theory with the support and advice of experts at the Tarragona delegation of the College of Psychologists of Catalonia, who supervised the film's script to ensure that the illness was clearly reflected. The College aims to use the film to launch a campaign to raise awareness about the illness before a range of audiences and to publish it on social networks. The film was premiered at a public event in the URV's main lecture theatre on 21st June 2018.

Final Degree Project - Audiovisual creation of sensitization about gestational and perinatal death

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Dol d'Estels.
  • Summary: "Del dol a l'amor" is an audiovisual creation made by three students of the Audiovisual Communication Degree during the academic year 2018-19 that want to be, in one hand, a tool to help mothers and fathers who lived the gestational or perinatal death of their son or daughter. In the other hand, that documentary wants to be a tool to social sensitize to show this taboo and invisible reality. After consulting an extensive documentation and interview experts, the students have had scriptwriting and select testimonies to explain their experiences in a documentary that compile their voices. We hope that the material could arrive at different help groups and had a wire presence in the social media. 

Final Degree Project - Broadcasting catalan in the european level

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Per la Llengua Plataform.
  • Summary: Plataforma per la Llengua is a non-governmental organization that works to promote the catalan language as a tool of social cohesion. That entity works the different territories where the catalan is spoken. They use a transversal view in the socioeconomical and audiovisual way, working in the hosting and learning of the language for the newcomer, in the universities and in the administrations. With this Final project of the academic year 2018-19, three students of the Audiovisual Communication Degree created the documentary ALATAC that will help to Plataforma per la Llengua to show the situation of discrimination of the catalan in the European Union. The students are working jointly with the entity to make the documentation and production phases that includes multipe interviews and relevant testimonies recorded in Barcelona and in the European Parlament in Brussels.

Information design

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations: Asociaciones de Vecinos de Reus Federation, Asociacions de Vecinos de Tarragona Federation.
  • Summary: In this group-practice programme, students liaise with residents associations in Reus and Tarragona to analyze their problems, explain them to town hall representatives and explore avenues for new solutions. Students use several methods and channels to increase their ability to interpret, produce and transmit messages effectively for different audiences. One of the two final work-experience programmes encompasses all the tools and techniques for presenting information that students have been introduced to, including diagrams, graphics, animations and maps. Over a six-week period, students carry out research, conduct interviews, and consult archives and other sources in order to generate a discourse strategy and produce graphical material that will be presented at an open symposium before a public audience. This activity aims to help students develop their social commitment and to acquire communication abilities for discourse construction, including how to structure a presentation, which strategies to use, how to use delivery and non-verbal communication techniques, and how to design materials. The learning environment is intended to provide students with sufficient pressure and motivation for them to prepare themselves appropriately for their presentation and to enable them to experiment and analyze how their message is received by a real audience.
  • You can listen to the experience in Tarragona Ràdio.
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Final Degree Project - Ubuntu, a documentary on the structural violence suffered by trans and migrant groups

  • Coordination: Ester Sánchez Llauradó (ester.sanchez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: ACATHI Association - Migración, asilo y diversidad LGBTI
  • Summary: Ubuntu is a Final Degree Project in Audiovisual Communication Studies that, through theoretical research and audiovisual work in transgender groups, is being submitted. 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 their identity construction and the functioning of their lives.

Audiovisual genres and formats

  • Coordination: Núria Araüna Baró (nuria.arauna(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona City Council - Consejería de Juventud.
  • Summary: Group practice where students must establish contact with various associations, organizations or young people in Tarragona, in order to make a short documentary that explores issues of youth and gender in the city.

    Students learn the skills needed to make a short documentary film that fits into real people and situations. Some of these skills are: the recording of the necessary images, the editing in editing rooms, the final touches of the script on the same material, the organization of a series of online films and the public screening of their works. This is an effective way for students to put into practice, as if it were a professional demand commissioned by the Ministry of Youth, the skills for which they are prepared in this subject. In addition, given that students are also young people and that different gender issues are part of the current public debate, we believe that carrying out this activity may be of interest to them.

    The aim of the activity, in addition to materializing their previous script in a documentary short film, is for students to reflect and become aware of issues related to different gender identities and to relate empathetically and respectfully to protagonists of his audiovisual pieces. The documentary genre is aimed at a thoughtful and critical viewer, moving away from mere entertainment. With this collaboration with the Ministry of Youth of Tarragona, we want to encourage our students to become reflective, critical, creative filmmakers and committed to their environment.

Narrative and audiovisual script

  • Coordination: Laia Quílez Esteve (laia.quilez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona City Council - Consejería de Juventud.
  • Summary: Group practice where students must establish contact with various associations, organizations or young people in Tarragona, in order to make a short documentary that explores issues of youth and gender in the city.

    Students learn the skills needed to make a short documentary film that fits into real people and situations. Some of these skills are: the recording of the necessary images, the editing in editing rooms, the final touches of the script on the same material, the organization of a series of online films and the public screening of their works. This is an effective way for students to put into practice, as if it were a professional demand commissioned by the Ministry of Youth, the skills for which they are prepared in this subject. In addition, given that students are also young people and that different gender issues are part of the current public debate, we believe that carrying out this activity may be of interest to them.

    The aim of the activity, in addition to materializing their previous script in a documentary short film, is for students to reflect and become aware of issues related to different gender identities and to relate empathetically and respectfully to protagonists of his audiovisual pieces. The documentary genre is aimed at a thoughtful and critical viewer, moving away from mere entertainment. With this collaboration with the Ministry of Youth of Tarragona, we want to encourage our students to become reflective, critical, creative filmmakers and committed to their environment.

Final Degree Project - Development of communication material and dissemination of retinoblastoma

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Miradas Mágicas Association.
  • Summary: The students of the degree in Audiovisual Communication have developed in their TFG different outreach and awareness actions that have helped to bring closer to society the association "AENAR miradas mágicas" which is formed by families with children affected by the minority disease retinoblastoma that generates tumors in the eyes of boys and girls. They have created communication and outreach material after documenting and dealing with members of the association. They have made videos for the early detection of the disease, informative postcards, they have reformulated the website creating actions / campaigns of community manager within various social networks such as instagram or facebook among other actions.
  • The result can be seen on the entity's website: www.miradasmagicas.org 

Final Degree Project - Documentary series on intellectual disability

  • Coordination: Antoni Pérez-Portabella López (antonio.perezportabella(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat(ELIMINAR))
  • Community organization: Taller Baix Camp
  • Summary: End of Degree Work Project for the 2022-2023 academic year, where the production of a documentary series of 3 chapters of approximately 7 minutes is carried out where the protagonists are users of the Taller occupacional baix Camp. In these, you discover the day-to-day life of people with intellectual disabilities who frequent the Workshop and make a living working and socializing to achieve the greatest possible independence. Taller Baix Camp is a non-profit organization based in Reus that acts for all adults with intellectual disabilities and their families, preferably from 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.