THE SHORT FILM GENRE WRITING PROCESS AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING CRITICAL AWARENESS
Short film. Text genre. Literacy Workshops. Cinematic literacy. Critical conscience
Nowadays, the image has taken, gradually, a strong impact, once the photos and videos has been distributed in different media on an astonishing speed. In this scenario, a short video report or a short story can have a repercussion, either beneficial, or devastating among the young people. Thus, the audiovisual culture is something strongly involved. It can be seen in viral videos around on app with instant messaging, on social networks, on TV and in movies. About the last one, there is known that movies, before filmed, are built from various verbal and iconic texts. Hence as a reference, this research elects, as an object of investigation, the movie genre, short film, and, consequently, some other genres which are constitutive from: synopsis, beat sheet, screenplay and storyboard. which can be used to film the short fiction movie. In general, the study aims to understand the writing process to create and produce a short film in the context of teaching the Portuguese language to high school students. Specifically, our goals, in the research are: 1) Analyze the processes of genre writing that can be used to build the short film genre in classroom contexts of Portuguese language teaching; 2) Discuss the contributions of Literacy Workshops (LW) could offer as work for textual genre that are constitutive of the short fiction film and; 3) Identify forms of intertextuality present in the texts production created for the short film genre performed by high school students. As a theoretical support, we relied on Kleiman (1995; 2000), Oliveira (2008; 2010), Santos-Marques and Kleiman (2019), Cabral (2016; 2019), Bazerman (2006; 2007), Bawarshi and Reiff (2013). Methodologically, we were inserted into the field of Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2006. KLEIMAN, 2013), we were guided by the qualitative-interpretative research paradigm (MOREIRA & CALEFF, 2008; MOITA LOPES, 1994), and we decided for the approach known as active research (THIOLLENT, 2003). The resources used for the data generation, were the audio and video recording of the classes developed in the literacy workshops that were taught in 2019 and the film itself. Accordingly to the instruments, the following data were generated: transcription of classes and interviews, the textual genres written to create the short film titled Sara’s Silence and the film itself. The analysis of the data suggests the dialogue between the theoretical foundations and the interpretation made of the corpus; moreover, it also suggests that literacy workshops are a relevant device for the didactic-pedagogical purpose, which, in our case, is the writing process of the constituent genres of the short film genre of fiction. The Work in this last one, also, benefits the student’s critical abilities, as its production requires adaptations guided by reflection on the existing conditions in the school for the film realization and on the texts used to build it.