A Short-film Competition on Gender Equality and Gender-based Violence

Finally, after one month of hard work, we carried out one of the many activities of our eTwinning project. It was a complicated and difficult task to find the appropriate date and time to watch the finalist videos. Even,  the pre-selection of all the videos for the competion was not a particularly easy task as most of them had pretty high-quality.

On the morning of the 20th, students and teachers involved in the project met to watch the 13 finalist videos: 9 in English, 1 in French and 3 in Spanish. With the help of some students, a video montage with all of them was made, inserting the adverts of the game LADY WHO? recorded in three languages:

Here you can see the one we recorded in English:

Before watching the video, our partner Ciara Rock sent me a message saying there was an issue with the internet connection and the downloading time of the video. Given the delay, her students were unable to vote as originally planned during that time period. Instead they finished watching at home and voted that evening.
By means of this page web live.voxvote.com, the Spanish students could vote using their mobile phones by inserting a PIN or a QR Code. However, it was impossible to publish the final result that day due to the internet problem in Ireland.
Two days later we got the final vote count:

Once again, I felt a very great emotion and it was really gratifying to be able to see that the the top two videos were recorded by my students.

First Prize:

The justice's mistake: Claudio Terrados, Pablo González, Yanjun Chen, Antonio Pérez and Daniel González.

Second Prize:
It is possible to heal scars: Andrea Parejo, Pablo García, Mª José Fernández and Lucía Gallego.

In a brief ceremony during a break, some presents were given to the award-winning pupils by Pedro de la Peña and their English teacher, Marta Fernández.

First Prize

 

Second Prize

 

We all enjoyed the process and were extremely impressed by the standard and quality of some students’ videos. Students also felt that the process had really helped them with their writing skills and had built their vocabulary significantly.