Workshop: How to Approach Audiovisual Literacy

Film in the Classroom – News Report with Street Interviews

In this workshop, participants, under the guidance of experienced tutor Jasper Vreken, will create a report on a festival using so-called ‘street interviews’. They will learn how to use a single question and striking, relevant visual elements to create a creative report – for example, on a film festival or a school project!

FOR WHOM: teachers

DURATION: 120 minutes

➤ Fill out the registration form (by October 23)

Through this practical workshop for teachers, Dutch film education specialist Jasper Vreken will share his experiences as a film teacher, director of the Stichting Documaken foundation – where he is involved in documentary filmmaking – and project lead for the MSA Film Academy, a programme for making feature films in schools. Workshop participants will try out the principles and techniques of documentary filmmaking and learn how systematic audiovisual education can help to enhance the audiovisual literacy of (not only) students.

For the past twenty years, Jasper Vreken has been teaching film with great enthusiasm to secondary school students. At the Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam, he guides young people in discovering the power of film – from short reports and trailers to horror films, commercials, and fiction stories. He is also the director of Stichting Documaken, an organization that supports students across the Netherlands in creating documentaries as part of their final research projects. Through this process, they learn how to turn their ideas and research into meaningful films that tell real stories. Finally, Japer develops and leads an after-school film program in which students work together to create short fiction films. In these projects, creativity takes center stage as they bring their own stories to life on screen.

The workshop will be held in English with Czech translation and it is aimed at teachers. To attend the event, valid Industry accreditation is required. You can find information on how to obtain Industry accreditation HERE.

The workshop is part of the Visegrad Audiovisual LAB project. The project is co-funded by the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The Fund’s mission is to promote the principles of sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.