This research suggests that the lack of motivation that marks the relationship of many young people with school could change if there were more opportunities for dialogue with the institution, specially through providing situations that allow students to express their dilemmas and ideas. This assumption stems from the connection found between theoretical references in the areas of sociology of youth and education, psychology and philosophy of language. Such connection indicated the need to study the student in his/her situated condition, as an agent who constructs his/her own identity through language and narratives. The aim of this study was first, to understand what are the competing discourses in the construction of student identities for those involved in the research, and, second, to analyze how the situations of individual expression and interaction allow those identities to be consciously re-constructed. To this end, we invited two groups of high school students from a public school in the city of Rio de Janeiro to participate in workshops and prepare a script that would then be video.