My Narrative Revised

Jonathan Stead 

   





n 2008 Jonathan Stead's Grandmother was diagnosed with dementia and having lost her husband and increasingly unable to care for herself this project explores the last few months of her life. These unique singular glass plates serve as a physical lasting reminder of the last few months of her life. The flaws on each of the plates reflect the'errors' and flaws present in her mind as the disease took over. the effect of the glass plates also to me looks like old photos that his grandmother would have that what i saw when I first saw these image before i knew about the glass plate technique.

from the feedback session the idea of dementia narrative presents dark side to my piece of work which could be a problem as an awareness campaign it should have a happier note to the piece but i don't want the piece to be a joke i still want it to be informative and have a serious element lesson.

                 

       

         

The images above in the film are very yellow and warm lighting which does wash out other colours in the shot. the positioning of the camera as well doesn't show that the food is getting easier it eat as the disease progresses so the idea of the narrative is not clear enough for the audience to see and realise what the sequence is about.The only give away is the voice over and interview otherwise it isn't clear.

my initial idea of showing the stages of dementia through eating food doesn't work as without an explanation or interview the audience would not know what is going on. 

I want to do a awareness campaign informing carer givers of dementia suffers to stop and help with the symptoms of the disease. It will start of with a charade style one word, 3 syllables and 8 letters. Then each letter of the word dementia will be shown representing a symptom. After each letter is relieved the voice over will reveal statistics about dementia and explain to carers that making memories now will help in the future to save more of the person they once knew.