How can we record children’s stories for an exhibition about childhood?
How can these children sound spontaneous and not as if they were reading?
How can they tell rich stories in their own words, yet tackle some of the very serious issues affecting Brazilian society today?

Making-of:

https://www.facebook.com/maspmuseu/videos/10153718777256025/

About 100 children from two schools (one public, one private) visited the museum several times with the mediation team to learn about the collection. One group had a private viewing to see some of the photographs and paintings that would be included in the upcoming exhibition. They all picked some works and did some extra research at home or at school. Some wrote some scripts, others didn’t. We recorded them in groups of 2 to 4 children at their school and questioned them to get the best out of these recording sessions by improvising some conversations. We didn’t want them to sound stiff or superficial. When editing the material, we tried to adopt a COPE approach, to Create Once and Publish Everywhere. Some stories were isolated to be broadcast on facebook or instagram (15s snippets).

The content I produced is now available on several channels: soundcloud, instagram and facebook.

Interview in Folha de São Paulo.

I presented this project at #MCN2016 in New Orleans.

My role: producer, director, editor