Week 3- Animated Documentary

This week I had research into care homes that where close by and the three nearest care home were

-Burley house care home
-Headingley hall
-Anchor, Halcyon court care and nursing home

This is just some of the research that I had done looking into the care home that I had found, my next step was to try and get into contact with the care homes to see if it was possible to visit and talk to the nurses, relatives to the residents and with consent from the family possibly talking to the residents themselves. 

This is an email I had sent to the manager of Headingley Hall. But before sending this email I had rang up to see if it was possible to visit and they kindly gave me the managers email address, although the response back to our email isn't what we expected, they politely said that Headingley hall is not a registered dementia setting.  

We had then found another care home in Harrogate called Nesfield lodge, and we had sent the same email but changed the name and the care home so then it was suited for this care home, we had done this because we felt as if the email did not need to be changed because it informed the person, who we are, what we are doing and why we are doing an animation on this subject. but sadly they did not reply to my email. 

Because we were struggling to come up with a solid idea for our animation, we had spoke to Mike and Steve and they had pointed out that me and Dan should talk about our experiences with close relatives suffering from Alzheimers, which is something that we hadn't thought about, but instead of just telling each other about our experiences with Alzheimers we had booked out the recording studio and recorded ourselves talking, this would mean that we could go back to the recordings and take notes of valuable points that we thought would help us with coming up with ideas. 

After me and Dan had done our interviews we thought that it would be a good idea to reach out to other students who have experienced Alzheimers and hear their response towards it, I then created a poster to place all around the university, and Guy had created the illustration for the poster. 

These are just some images of our poster, that we placed around uni. 

After we had placed the posters around uni, quite a few people had emailed us asking us if they could be any help towards our work. we had also received an email from some willing to help us by giving us a song that they had wrote about a relative having Alzheimers. 

we had replied back to each of theses emails and they were happy to help us with our animation by answering some questions whilst in the the recording studio, we had also interviewed a friend of guys from illustration and she was happy to help us too.