OUR PLANNING.

ROTANEWS is a workshop to experiment with audiovisual, documentation and artistic creativity.

The starting point is going to be CHANGE THE CLIMATE in order to think about what we would like to draw, paint or photography, which sounds would be interesting to record or what other levels could contribute to change the climate.

Thus it seems necessary to define what is or what could mean for each of us THE CLIMATE. We can talk about our ‘personal climate’: to think about our home environment or social, economic or political environment, about the people around us. We can search for empathy with others and think about different perspectives or even complement them.
To communicate our ideas we have different audiovisual media: drawings, photography, writing in tetralingüal texts, sound and digital recordings, etc.

Every morning during the first thirty minutes, if ‘meteorological climate’ is fine, we are going to walk to get a breath of air to our brain and get ready to start our activity.


MONDAY 23rd and TUESDAY 24th

- Walk

- Viewing of authors works: photographs (my favourite photographers), short movies, music in Spanish and spots (publicity)

We are going to use different web pages: www.google, the school web page, blogs from different departments, works from students in the arts field.

- Portraits and self-portraits
We are searching for a true smile; smiling is healing and therapeutic

- Draw, take photographs, record videos on our environment:
The play ground, central park, other workshops, Tres Cantos

- Posters about:
The climate change, the business world, sexual education, education for equality between sexes. www.consumehastamorir.com.

- Scripts for publicity spots or fiction short movies about one of the above topics.

WEDNESDAY 25th

A good opportunity to watch and look at the city. You can draw and take photographs.
Very important: You should do a security copy of all the material recorded every day once passed to the laptop.



THURSDAY 26th

- Walk
- A first selection of materials, photos, videos, etc for the final exhibition.
Taking Pictures, videos , editing

- Handling with digital files:
Storing files on themes and sessions: photographies, rounds, music copyleft, videos

- Handling of photographic files and pre-selection of the most interesting images:
For Internet, to be impressed, for an audiovisual,…

- Visit to the place where the last exhibition is going to take place
And come back to school

- Brain storming and proposals for the exhibition. Reheasals:
Rotanews with two or more interviewers, they will explain their experience (10-15mn)


FRIDAY 27th

- Walk
- Last impressions and editing , montage
Moving to the ‘theatre’ to get the final staging and montage of the exhibition.
Coming back to school and last rehearsal.





Available equipment at the Arts Department:


2 digital cameras (Photo and video)
3 digital video cameras ( MINI DVD, DVD, in hard disk)
2 computers and two laptops
Memory cards, printer
Suggested computer programmes:
Photoshop, window movie maker, Mero Vision...

Students are invited to explain the ones they know and download the free ones they could need.