Signs from children
Vídeo workshop at la Timba, with Paolo Beneventi. La Habana, Cuba 2007
In the first workshop the group used two cameras. In the second, one of them broke, so we have not backstage scenes for it. Kids managed devices naturally and, after a very little training, also very properly, taking good and steady shots.
Paolo Beneventi was in 2007 and 2009 for two 3 days workshops with the kids of Timba, a popular area in Havana, Cuba. They used cameras, a tripod, a video projector, a PC, playing with frames and effects and inventing stories. Most of the shots in this videos were taken by the children thmeselves.
Some people think that kids today are good in managing digital devices because from their birth they are "exposed" to the means. Those Cuban kids had actually never had a cell phone in hand before, but they were able to play with PCs and effects without any problem.