Infancias, cultura visual, formación y creación del audiovisual

Abstract

“Miedo sin sentido” is a short film created by Juan Esteban Caro during the pandemic. As part of the training processes in the Crea Program, the project narrates a tragic love story through a voice-over that reveals the character's feelings and thoughts on their journey to meet their partner. Its vertical format, elaborate narrative, specific technical approaches, and a small team composed of his family test the cinematic criteria for evaluating the film's quality. These narrative and aesthetic elements are also evident in similar projects by children and adolescents within the Crea Program. It is possible that these narrative forms are influenced by their screen consumption habits, the rise of expanded narratives, new audiovisual technologies, social media, their relationship with traditional media (radio, television, film), and the images that permeate their daily lives. This aspect relates to Acaso's (2006) concept of visual culture, defined as a set of visual representations that create the framework of meaning in which people in a given society live. According to Acaso, visual culture consists of the visual products that populate our daily lives and contribute to the identity of the contemporary individual. The research on childhood, visual culture, and audiovisual training and creation analyzes how the visual culture of children is integrated into the training and creation processes within the Crea Program.