Jóvenes, pandemia y amor

Abstract

Our report "Youth, pandemic and love" talks about love in times of pandemic. Throughout all this time, we have seen how data on deaths, the economic impact or the management of public health in this health crisis, have been the negative collateral damage that has monopolized all the news. However, many other negative consequences that this pandemic has caused have not been as important as they deserve. One of them is, in the most social aspect, love. On our topic, love in times of pandemic, we have seen a lack of information about it. For this reason, we wanted to investigate the subject, emphasizing what has happened to love as a couple and how we relate to each other now. As young people we feel harmed by the lack of information about what has happened to love during confinement, how all those people who have not had a partner in that period of time have experienced it, or in what way it has harmed or not couples who have spent confinement both in the same house and separately. But, above all, we find a lack of information on what is going to happen with love from now on, how we relate to so many restrictions and how we are going to meet new people without risk of contagion. It should be noted that we focus on a young target audience, of people between 15 and 30 years old. The main reason that leads us to narrow our target audience at this age is that, as young people, we feel harmed by this problem, and we believe it is necessary to carry out a report showing all the consequences that the pandemic has caused in love. Thus, with this report focused on young people, we intend to provide a new vision from the point of view of young people, in a closer and more direct way. In addition, this age group is when love is most experienced. Meeting people in discos, touching each other, seeing each other freely, have been many of the things that have been prohibited during the year and a half of the pandemic. And we do not know if we will be able to carry them out again or in how long. Therefore, it is a time lost in the experimentation of love and that has had its repercussion especially in young people. Regarding the news of this report, it should be noted that it is a contemporary issue that, to this day, we still continue to suffer. The importance of this report is undoubted since we are going through an unknown situation for our society. As future professionals in the field of information and communication, we believe that it is Autoras: Raquel Jerez y Alba María Lluesma Tutor: Abel Campos 44 Jóvenes, pandemia y amor essential to speak about all possible issues that concern the population and give voice to problems that affect society. As young people, we consider that it is also convenient not to forget our generation, which, although it is one of the most prepared and informed, is one of those that also raises the most doubts and who most demands answers and solutions. If we talk about love we always think about banal things, but nothing is further from reality, love is a fundamental piece in our lives. We are increasingly discovering what love is, that there are many different and valid types of love, as well as the importance of love in our personal lives and as a society. So, with our report we wanted to focus on love, focusing on love as a couple in youth. Within the theme of love in times of pandemic, first of all, we wanted to limit our work on how love is lived in a target audience of young people between 15 and 30 years old. Secondly, we have focused our work on love as a couple, involving young people who have gone through confinement with their partner, separated from her, as well as people who have gone through confinement without a partner. The assembly phase has been carried out entirely with the Adobe Premiere Pro, version 14 editing program. The first technique we have used is to set the video sequence to a Sony XDCAM HD422 1080 PAL editing mode. In order to give it more movement and variety, we have used techniques such as time lapse, stop motion and multiscreen. With this we use three different ways of editing and that differ from the rest of the effects and elements of the montage that we have used during the edition. The objective of using these effects is to give more speed and dynamism to the video, as well as a greater agility to the shots. In general, we have used a direct cut as a step between sequences and scenes, since it does not seem necessary to reload our report with transitions. The use of the "multiscreen" we have used as a resource plan before presenting the protagonists of the report, both couples and single people, and also the random people we have asked on the street. To correct the blurring of an image we have decided to use the "unsharp mask" video effect with quantity values of 50% and radius values of 50%. Autoras: Raquel Jerez y Alba María Lluesma Tutor: Abel Campos 45 Jóvenes, pandemia y amor Thus, to solve the cuts in the interviews we have applied the video transition «dissolve» → «transformation cut». With regard to color, it must be said that in the recording phase we always took into account the same values in the camera so as not to have too many mismatches later. Of course, each scenario was different so many times the values had to be adapted and we did so. Even so, in this post-production phase we have had to perform some color correction task, to correct any imperfection. To do this, we have used automatic basic color correction in the lumetri color adjustments. From there, we have also made manual adjustments, to give more warmth to the images and to retouch the light left by the spotlights, as well as some burnt backgrounds. As for the sound, we have made use of a sound overlap. That is to say, when the word was heard, the base of the song used progressively lowered and when there was no word the song was raised gradually as well. We have also made use of the "repair" effect from the window option, in the essential sound section. From there we have removed all the ambient sound that could sneak in, such as the air, the birds, the murmur of the people, etc. Our target audience is young people, specifically those in the 15 to 30 age range. According to the Youth Report carried out in 2020 by the Ministry of Social Law and the 2030 Agenda, today's young people are digital natives, “which implies that they have developed great familiarity with online environments, which they use to inform themselves, study, interact, buy and entertain themselves ”, so our report would be broadcast on digital platforms. The two options for digital platforms belong to RTVE. We want to bet on this public channel, since we think that they are not subject to political ideals. We also want to make use of this public tool, since it also belongs to us. The first option would be Playz, RTVE's online content platform. It is aimed especially at a young audience and hence the reason for its name 'Playz', since it refers to generation Z, those people born between 1995 and 2015 approximately. A second option would be Lab RTVE, the audiovisual innovation laboratory of Radio Televisión Española. We believe that our report could fit into this format, as similar products are disseminated Autoras: Raquel Jerez y Alba María Lluesma Tutor: Abel Campos 46 Jóvenes, pandemia y amor and the possibilities offered by the Internet are explored. We also opted for the broadcast of the report on our Valencian public television, À Punt Mèdia. Regarding the strengths of our report, it should be noted that, without any doubt, it is a current and innovative topic. To this day we are still immersed in the last throes of a pandemic that has made us rethink many things, including love. Our report also stands out for its closeness to young and spontaneous sources who shamelessly expose what worries them and ask themselves the same questions as so many other young people. Regarding the weak points of our report, mainly, we can say that since it is a topic that has not been covered in depth, we had little such concrete expert information. We also find it difficult to focus on the subject since, being such a broad subject with so many aspects and that it could be approached from different and different perspectives, many times the subject could go to another problem. That is, love is very diverse, there is love as a couple, love for your family, friends, self-love, etc. For love as a couple we have the expert sources explained above but we could have also spoken with philosophers, writers, sex educators, to give you another point of view. Within love as a couple, other interesting topics arose to deal with, such as separations in confinement, violence in the couple, etc. Therefore, many times the information that we obtained and found could make us change the focus of our report almost without realizing it.