Santiago González-Barros, Miguel Rojo, Álvaro Piquer, Juan Camilo Pedraza and Alberto Bonilla, students at School of Communication at the University of Navarra, are the authors of the video graduate "Do you know Benedict XVI"?, winner of the local phase of the UNIV Forum, held at the academic center. The clip is made with "Stop-motion", an animation technique that consists of simulating movement by means of a series of successive still images. To achieve the effect, these five students used more than 1,400 drawings and a total of 1,000 photographs, in addition to spending 15 hours at work. Since it was posted on YouTube on March 17, the video has already received more than 13,000 views.

"Our goal was to produce a video that showed Benedict XVI and his ability to convey great ideas in a simple way. We wanted to make it clear that the Pope reaches young people with a message of renewal of great intellectual stature. In other words, he is not a distant, old-fashioned, incomprehensible or elderly figure, but someone very close to us," explains Santiago González-Barros, student , 2nd year Audiovisual Communication student.

He and Miguel Rojo (3rd year advertising) made the drawings, based on all the information that Álvaro Piquer (2nd year Journalism) had gathered about Pope Benedict XVI: his biography, some of his trips, his main ideas, the comments of other religious leaders... Juan Camilo Pedraza (2nd year Audiovisual Communication) took all the photographs and made sure that the story maintained a narrative coherence, since due to lack of time, they worked without a script. Finally, Alberto Bonilla (2nd year Journalism) found the right music for the video, and was in charge of presenting it in the contest.

"It is true that data is missing and perhaps it is not too professional, but we believe that this spontaneity is what gives freshness and grace to a video that, more than for the content, supports the Pope with the gesture of some young students who show our own vision of his person," concludes Santiago." concludes Santiago.