Introduction to media literacy for children: the Storyboard design

Abstract

Children of the 21st century are called digital natives, and for that reason they need a practical education that helps them understand and exploit the contents of the different screens open to them. This work explores the value of Storyboard as a key tool in teaching media literacy to children. It builds on the experience of the audiovisual workshops for children given by the authors in Venezuela and Spain. It also examines other practices from film and television schools for children in different parts of the world. The research method was the mapping and content of the stories suggested by the young learners. Storyboard is a useful tool not only from a technical standpoint - identification of drawings and narratives - but also from the viewpoint of the script - as the child more clearly detects the character profile: who does what and what does he do? As well as the transmission of content: what is it that I am trying to get across? All this is reflected in the final audiovisual document. This work will also examine new software which, although having the same end function, has modernized computer storyboard development.