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Abstract

With the spread of Covid 19 in the early spring of 2020, schools in Norway closed down overnight. Teachers and students suddenly got a completely different work and learning environment. This study explores how students within this new learning environment experienced limitations and possibilities creating their own visual stories, working on a school project named ‘My Room’. The project was part of the teaching within the Norwegian upper secondary educational programme Media and Communication. In the subject named ‘Mediespesialisering’ [Media specialication]. One of the objects of the subject is to develop your own artistic expression. The starting point of the creative process and the physical limitation during production was the students’ own rooms but there were no limitations to format or type of expression, other than the equipment available to them at the time. The students in the study decided to make different live action short films (documentaries and fictional), still photo series and still photo films. Several of the students were through their artistic and media productions voicing their personal experiences of Covid 19, how it is being 18-19 years old and living in lockdown. The study identified that though the project work for the students had physical limitations, the constrictions seemed to be a constructive framework for creative processes, making it a good basis for narratives and artistic and media products with a clear message. The students expressed that using their private space as a learning space and a set for a visual narrative was a very different learning experience than in school. Spaces they knew very well but had to look at differently than normally, contributed to their learning and their stories.