DAY DREAMS, NIGHT DREAMS

Audience:
Teenagers with visual impairments from the Normandy-Lorraine Center.

Location:
The Normandie-Lorraine Center, Le Mesnil-Esnard.

Intervention time:
50 hours of workshop.

Artist:
Gabrielle Schaff, writer and director.

Techniques:
Collaborative writing,
Collective recordings.

Device:
Culture, Health and Medical-Social
Cultural rights (Normandy Region)

Partners:
DRAC, Normandy Region.

Course :
Gabrielle Schaff, author and director, taught the teenagers the basics of sound recording and had them listen to podcasts and sound creations.

Each teenager was then able to try his or her hand at sound recording by learning how to use a recorder and a microphone, but above all how to ask questions and encourage his or her classmates to tell their dreams and develop their stories. Sound recording is a way to encourage them to think about how to construct a story. The focus was on the details of perception, hearing, smelling, feeling, the stages of a story, the importance of characters and places.

The next step consisted in collectively recording sounds related to their dreams: general ambiences of places or just sounds of actions. They also practiced sound effects and listened to their recordings to determine what might be missing.

Those listenings led to rich discussions to set the basis of the editing to come, in order to purify the story around the highlights and to make it alive, which gave rise to rewritings and re-recordings.

It was also decided to record scenes from the daily life of the Centre Normandie Lorraine (music classes, trips, meals, recreation) to create atmospheres of places or sequences of life punctuating the dream stories.

Restitution :
The final result, edited with the help of Honolulu studio under the direction of the teenagers of the Normandie-Lorraine Center, was the subject of a final meeting in the form of a friendly collective listening.

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