This project is a creative production that combines image, sound, and narrative. It uses these elements to employ a twist as a device for a paradigm and genre shift in a short film text. My short film introduces a plot that is seemingly linear. Yet, the twist presents a piece of information that reveals the actual non-linear nature of the story, which in turn necessitates the re-interpretation of the plot. The aim of this project is to explore how a twist in a narrative-based short film can alter the cues and perceptions the audience receive from the plot. The project is predominantly practice-based (80%).

This thesis is focused on the worthwhile lessons learned while creating a short animated film. The conventional way of teaching related to practice is to have students work on projects and learn from their own experience. This thesis strives to save the reader some of the pain, time, and effort required of this learning style, by presenting the hard learned lessons from this project. An overview of the project is provided, along with a reconstructed time-line. Also, each member of the team recounted their own dilemmas and successes on the project, and proposed potential solutions to problems encountered along the way. The findings are presented in the spirit of a post-mortem analysis, which acts to collect the knowledge obtained by those involved with a project in order to increase productivity for the next time a similar task is attempted. The postmortem approach was found to be effective in identifying, illuminating, and articulating the lessons learned concerning general, practical, team-related and problem solving issues encountered while working on a short animated film.

This report will summarize the process of developing, producing and finishing the short film Ex-Votos. Shot on HD video in Real de Catorce, Mexico during the fall of 2012, the film was produced as my Graduate Thesis Film in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts in Film Production degree. / text

This thesis report traces in detail all the phases of the short film Bye-Bye Blackbird, from its concept idea to its final completion. This report, along with the finished film, fulfills the Thesis requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. / text

This report summarizes the process of writing, developing, directing and completing the short film In This Place. This film was produced as my graduate thesis film in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts in Film Production degree. / text

Studijų metu gerai susipažinęs su dizaino sąvoka pastebėjau, kad ji apima įvairią kūrybą, gerokai daugiau nei iki tol įsivaizdavau. Anglakalbių šalių žodžio design supratimas dar gerokai platesnis. Ten grafikos dizaineris užsiima platesniu darbų spektru, kurį taip pat įvardija kaip design ar tai būtų logotipo kūrimas, ar interaktyvus skaitmeninis objektas. Bebaigdamas savo studijas pastebiu, kad didžioji dalis darbų buvo susietų su pramoniniu, interjero dizainu ir vienokia ar kitokia spauda. Dėl šios priežasties nusprendžiau savarankiškai gilinti dizaino įgūdžius, techninius gebėjimus platesniame kompiuterinių programų rate. Todėl bakalauro darbe, kurį įvardinau judančia grafika (angl. Motion graphics), pasitelkiau šiandien plačiai skaitmenine kūryba užsiimančių menininkų naudojamas programas. Motion graphics (judanti grafika) - tai grafika, kuriai pritaikoma video arba/ir animavimo technologija, sukurianti judesio iliuziją ar besikeičiančią objekto išvaizdą. Judanti grafika dažniausiai derinama su garsu naudojant įvairiuose multimedijos projektuose. Judanti grafika dažniausiai rodoma pasinaudojant elektroninės medijos technologijomis. Terminas naudojamas atskiriant nejudančią grafiką nuo grafikos keičiančios išvaizdą laike. Žinoma, mano dailės ir dizaino specialybė orientuota į mokytojo darbą, todėl filmuko kūrimas naudojant flash technologiją, video ir audio montavimo programas buvo puikus pasirinkimas tobulinant savo kaip dizaino specialisto gebėjimus. Taip pat plečiant... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / For my bachelor degree work I created motion graphics short films which are suited to be shown at schools for children, as well the creation of them are written down in this work and can be used for school as a methodical instructions how these kind of films can be made. My work inspired by Ivan Krylov - a classic well known in the world Russian fables writer. This way my motion graphics films have a deep educational value. To create them I mainly used Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Sony Vegas and Audacity computer software. My work is great methodical instructions for young art and design teachers who want to teach their students how to use computer software basics for creative tasks. To create my motion graphics films I used computer software which is highly used by today's professional digital artists.

This project is a creative production that combines image, sound, and narrative. It uses these elements to employ a twist as a device for a paradigm and genre shift in a short film text. My short film introduces a plot that is seemingly linear. Yet, the twist presents a piece of information that reveals the actual non-linear nature of the story, which in turn necessitates the re-interpretation of the plot. The aim of this project is to explore how a twist in a narrative-based short film can alter the cues and perceptions the audience receive from the plot. The project is predominantly practice-based (80%).

This paper will investigate both modern and potential future methods of data collection and analysis. The research was conducted through qualitative research practices such as an autoethnographic recounting of a personal privacy scare on a mobile device, personal interviews regarding the individual’s own online data, and observed reactions to relevant instances regarding for instance surveillance apps. This research was done while considering a wide breadth of texts and articles relevant to the question of what things like dataveillance look like today, how they affect our lives and how they may take form in the future. This research finally culminates in the form of a short film in which these topics are framed in a speculative and somewhat more dystopian near future scenario

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-06-01T20:46:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Jean Carlos Dourado de Alcantara.pdf: 1672791 bytes, checksum: a7a41386770ab9e73e6c45939a2bd451 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-06-05T16:35:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Jean Carlos Dourado de Alcantara.pdf: 1672791 bytes, checksum: a7a41386770ab9e73e6c45939a2bd451 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-05T16:35:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Jean Carlos Dourado de Alcantara.pdf: 1672791 bytes, checksum: a7a41386770ab9e73e6c45939a2bd451 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / Diante do crescente aumento dos recursos audiovisuais que têm adentrado o espaço escolar atualmente, esta pesquisa objetiva refletir sobre o uso didático da linguagem audiovisual, mais especificamente a do curta-metragem, por professores de língua portuguesa na construção de suas práticas de ensino. Discutimos, neste trabalho, não apenas o caráter pedagógico dessa ferramenta, mas também o seu potencial de produzir transformação nos alunos, tornando-os sujeitos ativos na construção e negociação de sentidos. Buscamos também, por meio do estudo da linguagem cinematográfica, caminhos que levem à valorização e respeito ao cotidiano, à diversidade e à pluralidade dos estudantes, conforme preceituado pelos PCN. Nossas reflexões têm como base as experiências de professores que se serviram do projeto Curta na Escola, desenvolvido pela Petrobrás, desde 2006, o qual disponibiliza em seu site curtas-metragens brasileiros, acompanhados de sequências didáticas, para uso de profissionais cadastrados. Nos relatos selecionados, buscamos verificar, por meio das práticas de ensino, as concepções de linguagem adotadas pelos professores, bem como sua relação com a linguagem do cinema e seus sistemas representativos. Esta pesquisa está respaldada pela teoria enunciativo-discursiva, de abordagem sócio-histórica, elaborada pelo filósofo russo Mikhail Bakhtin. Além disso, buscamos, à luz da teoria do cinema, compreender o processo de produção de sentidos pela linguagem audiovisual, utilizada nas produções cinematográficas. E, por fim, estabelecemos um diálogo entre as duas teorias, a fim de constatar a natureza dialógica também presente na linguagem cinematográfica. Para isso, aplicamos, nos enunciados fílmicos, bem como na análise dos relatos, categorias bakhtinianas, tais como: dialogia, exotopia, excedente de visão, cronotopia etc. Após análise dos dados, concluímos que os professores ainda carecem de formação para lidar com a linguagem audiovisual numa perspectiva enunciativo-discursiva. Pretendemos, com esta pesquisa, contribuir para que os docentes preencham essa lacuna ao lidar com as representações cinematográficas. / In view of the growing amount of audio-visual resources that have entered into the school currently, this research aims to reflect about the didactic use of audiovisual language, specifically the short film, by Portuguese teachers in the development of teaching practices. The intention was to discuss not only the pedagogical nature of this tool, but also its potential to produce a transformation in students, making them active subjects in the construction and negotiation of meanings. Through the study of film language, It also sought paths that lead to the valuing and respect to the daily situations, to the diversity and plurality of the students, as specified by the NCP. Our reflections will be based on the experiences of teachers who have used the Short School project, developed by Petrobras since 2006, which provides on its site Brazilian short films. Each short is accompanied by didactic sequences, for use by registered educators. We seek to verify In selected reports, through teaching practices, conceptions of language adopted by teachers, as well as their relationship with the language of cinema and its representative systems. This research is anchored in the enunciation-discursive theory, of social-historical approach, developed by Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. In addition, we seek, in the light of the cinema theory, understand the process of meaning production of audiovisual language, used in film productions. And, finally, we establish a dialogue between the two theories, in order to determine the dialogic nature also present in film language. To achieve this We applied Bakhtinian categories in the analyze the reports, such as: dialogism, exotopy, surplus of seeing, chronotope etc. After analyzing the data, we concluded that teachers still need training to tackle with the audiovisual language in a enunciative-discursive perspective. Through this research, We intend to contribute for the teachers fill the gap by dealing with cinematic representations.

The present research entitled "Production of Short Films as a Resource for Inclusive Education" developed in the research line Development of Educational Technologies in Network and in the area of concentration Educational Technologies in Network for Innovation and Democratization of Education in the Master course in Educational Technologies In Network at UFSM, focuses on the production of two short films produced by students with intellectual disabilities from a state school in the interior of Santa Maria-RS. Inclusion in school presupposes beyond the right to the vacancy in a regular educational institution. It includes aid in the teaching-learning process and the right of the student to count on different pedagogical alternatives, according to their specifics, making him / her a subject in the construction of knowledge. Given this, it is believed that the school, by providing students with conditions for production and interaction with pedagogical and technological resources, allows students to stimulate creativity and affectivity, as well as facilitates the constitution of identities capable of withstanding restlessness, welcoming and coexisting with Diversity. In this scenario, the present research carried out a study on the technological resource short film, seeking to analyze the feasibility of the same as a subsidy to the adaptive and inclusive process of students with intellectual disabilities. It is a qualitative study based on the presuppositions of participatory action research. Participants in the action research were students with intellectual disabilities, students and teachers. From the exploration of reality, together with the students, the planning, development and evaluation of the action was operationalized. After the production of the short films, a semi-structured interview was conducted with students with intellectual disabilities in order to know their perceptions about participating in the short film. The participation of students with intellectual disabilities as protagonists in the production of the short films reflected in perceptions of reception, inclusion and appreciation. / A presente pesquisa intitulada “Produção de Curtas Metragens como Recurso para a Educação Inclusiva’’ desenvolvida na linha de pesquisa Desenvolvimento de Tecnologias Educacionais em Rede e na área de concentração Tecnologias Educacionais em Rede para Inovação e Democratização da Educação no curso de Mestrado em Tecnologias Educacionais em Rede na UFSM, centra-se sobre a produção de dois Curtas Metragens produzidos pelos alunos com deficiência intelectual de uma escola estadual do interior de Santa Maria-RS. A inclusão escolar pressupõe para além de direito à vaga em uma instituição de ensino regular. Engloba auxílio no processo de ensino-aprendizagem e o direito do aluno de contar com alternativas pedagógicas diversas, de acordo com suas especificidades, tornando-o assim, sujeito na construção do saber. Diante disso, acredita-se que a escola ao possibilitar aos alunos condições para produção e interação com recursos pedagógicos e tecnológicos permite aos alunos estimulo à criatividade e a afetividade, bem como facilita a constituição de identidades capazes de suportar a inquietação, acolher e conviver com a diversidade. Neste cenário, a presente pesquisa realizou um estudo sobre o recurso tecnológico curta metragem, buscando analisar a viabilidade da mesma enquanto subsídio ao processo adaptativo e inclusivo dos alunos com deficiência intelectual. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo embasado nos pressupostos da pesquisa-ação participante. Os participantes da pesquisa-ação foram alunos com deficiência intelectual, alunos e professores. A partir da exploração da realidade, juntamente com os alunos, operacionalizou-se o planejamento, o desenvolvimento e a avaliação da ação. Após a produção dos curtas metragens realizou-se entrevista semi- estruturada com os alunos com deficiência intelectual com a finalidade de conhecer suas percepções sobre participar do curta metragem. A participação dos alunos com deficiência intelectual enquanto protagonistas da produção dos curtas metragens refletiu em percepções de acolhimento, inclusão e valorização.