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Audiovisual cultural animation tools

The Journal of animation : Action article “Making a film with a cell phone: creativity citizenship”
The Journal of animation : Action article “Making a film with a cell phone: creativity citizenship”
The Ambient Sound Chorus
The Ambient Sound Chorus
CLEMI: Fact sheets video with mobile phone
CLEMI: Fact sheets video with mobile phone
The creative unconscious, a method for collective creation
The creative unconscious, a method for collective creation
The invisible art of material organization
The invisible art of material organization
Participatory reverse photography workshop
Participatory reverse photography workshop
Tutorials for doing video activities with your children
Tutorials for doing video activities with your children
UPOPI : “What to do with a pocket camera?”
UPOPI : “What to do with a pocket camera?”
Paths for projects for the prevention of violence through audio-visual practice
Paths for projects for the prevention of violence through audio-visual practice
Book: “Image education 2.0”
Book: “Image education 2.0”
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You will find here methodologies that can be used directly to run cultural, creative, digital and audiovisual workshops.

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The Ambient Sound Chorus
The Ambient Sound Chorus

Having non-actors play the ambient sound of a scene live during the shoot, using simple musical instruments.

During a filmmaking workshop, when the shoot begins, how can we make sure everyone genuinely contributes, including those who are not acting or running the camera? The method I propose is to entrust the people who are off-camera with creating an (…)

1 May 2026
  8 min
The invisible art of material organization
The invisible art of material organization

When organizing materials becomes a philosophy of cultural mediation.

In my digital cultural actions, I discovered that material organization transcends simple logistics to become a practical philosophy of mediation. The materiality of the digital: a paradox to be tamedMy work in cultural animation leads me to (…)

28 October 2025
  5 min
Found Objects (collective film)
The creative unconscious, a method for collective creation

When letting go becomes method. For a Taoist approach to audiovisual creation.

How can we explain that a group of people can produce a coherent cinematographic work in a short time without a script? A method that shows the creative power of the collective unconscious and non-action. Unconscious CoherenceFor years, I have (…)

5 October 2025
  6 min
Participatory reverse photography workshop
Participatory reverse photography workshop

A method for deconstructing relationships with images.

Pedagogical method that transforms the phone into a tool for collective creation to question our relationship with images, democratize the creative act, and build oneself in a benevolent social space. An innovative pedagogical approachThe (…)

26 June 2025
  5 min
Paths for projects for the prevention of violence through audio-visual practice
Paths for projects for the prevention of violence through audio-visual practice

Pedagogical structure of a workshop.

Violence, and especially “gratuitous” violence, with no obvious explanation and operated by young people who are a priori not concerned, is a fairly central contemporary prevention topic. Based on field experience and professional training that I (…)

3 October 2020
  4 min
Tutorials for doing video activities with your children
Tutorials for doing video activities with your children

Podcast by Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2020).

Very simple tutorial (1 minute 30) to conduct two creative audiovisual activities with your children.During the confinement period in March-April 2020, the city of Lilas, as part of the project “The Digital Factory”, whose implementation I am (…)

15 April 2020
  1 min
Tutorials for making sequence-shot films
Tutorials for making sequence-shot films

Podcast by Benoît Labourdette (17’30s, 2020).

Complete pedagogical method for making three types of films in sequence shot: collective film, animated film, memory at the window.During the confinement period in March-April 2020, EPT Est Ensemble and the Seine Saint Denis Department, in (…)

31 March 2020
  2 min
Book: “Image education 2.0”
Book: “Image education 2.0”

Practical guide (free download).

“Image education 2.0” (under the direction of Benoît Labourdette), practical book of image education in the digital age, published by ACAP. Free download.Download the entire book (french).In line with the work of Jacques Rancière (“The (…)

13 October 2015
  3 min
UPOPI : “What to do with a pocket camera?”
UPOPI : “What to do with a pocket camera?”

Teaching method : 7 sessions to make films simply with a phone or a camera... Read the articleWhat to do with a pocket camera ?Whether it’s a smartphone or a camera, either their own unit or that of the family, now almost all children and (…)

1 April 2015
  2 min
The Journal of animation : Action article “Making a film with a cell phone: creativity citizenship”
The Journal of animation : Action article “Making a film with a cell phone: creativity citizenship”

Manage a workshop with mobile phone.The Journal of animation monthly reference tool for facilitators of socio-cultural field, invited me in 2010 to write a “share folder” to transmit issues, interest and workshops about filmmaking with mobile (…)

7 May 2010
  2 min
CLEMI: Fact sheets video with mobile phone
CLEMI: Fact sheets video with mobile phone

Pedagogical and technical sheets for making video with mobile phone.CLEMI, institution of the Ministry of Education whose mission to teach students citizen media practice, asked me the writing of two worksheets to help teachers to lead (…)

9 December 2009
  1 min

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