DIGITAL MEDIA CLUBS EXHIBITION

The establishment of Digital Media Clubs in 20 Champion Schools by DokuFest through the support of the German GIZ has managed to create space in these schools where students have the opportunity to express their creativity through visual communication. This project has enabled students to foster creativity through various activities and trainings and has encouraged active participation in addressing issues such as inclusion, bullying, discrimination and active citizenship, improving their critical and analytical thinking, and empowering them to communicate efficiently in various media. One of the techniques addressed was that of interviewing for the needs of schools, focusing on covering and documenting school activities throughout the year. Within the program funded by GIZ, various organizations have conceived the establishment of different clubs. Bonevet from Gjakova has worked on building the capacity of Science Clubs, while Artpolis has worked on establishing theater clubs. DokuFest has initiated the building of synergies between the three newly formed clubs in order to extend the impact of the project to as many students as possible and to create modalities of sustainability beyond the duration of the project. The project specifically aimed to teach students about digital media in an enjoyable environment, where students have the space and freedom to imagine, create and produce digital media stories, stories, school magazines with unlimited possibilities. Students have learned how to use digital media tools for audiovisual production, publishing and learn to work together in groups. Although the project was initiated before the global pandemic, which particularly hit the education sector, at the time of the pandemic the collaboration of the project team and other DokuFest staff with students's Club members in these champion schools managed to launch the Virtual Classroom. . The Virtual Classroom as a product of this project is a summary of teaching units of different subjects, worked as modern, attractive, audiovisual and accessible lessons for these age groups. In the first semester of the 2021/2022 school year DokuFest organized two-day camps for Digital Media Clubs, offering students an opportunity to address complex topics through the stop-motion technique which was facilitated by Studio Amam and engaged experts. Quality Education, Reduced Inequalities, Sustainable Cities and Communities dhe Climate Action were the topics selected for creative treatment. The whole training was offered to 104 students and 19 teachers of 17 champion schools within 5 weeks in the premises of DokuKino Cinema. These works of the students were consolidated in an animation which was exhibited in 7 municipalities of the sample schools. During these trainings students were introduced to the topics of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and after selecting the topic were trained to develop the concept through audiovisual narrative using the stop-motion technique. Once the concept was set, each group was asked to transmit the final concept to the storyboard, where they also had to plan for the materials and how to carry out their project with stop-motion.

Digital Media Clubs - Stop Motion from Doku Fest on Vimeo.

All these learned innovations are then transferred to the final work that is being exhibited in 7 municipalities, that of Gjilan, Gjakova, Prishtina, Prizren, Obiliq, Shtime and Podujeva. Through the economic recovery program of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, DokuFest will continue to provide support for Digital Media Clubs in Champion Schools through the Digital Film Factory project, where students will be offered the module to Media Education and Multimedia, so that the impact of their work affects the modernization, digitalization and improvement of the quality of Education in these schools.