http://www.salmagundifilms.co.uk Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:06:51 +0000 http://www.salmagundifilms.co.uk en http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Working-with-Dementia http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Working-with-Dementia Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:06:51 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 313491 Working with Dementia "Creative engagement and learning are critical antidotes to the often overlooked but soul-destroying symptom of dementia--apathy. They are keys to a life worth living." John Zeisel PhD Author, I'm Still Here, a New Philosophy of Alzheimer's Care and co-founder, ARTZ: Artists for Alzheimer's FRAMES OF MIND® at the Watermill, Wallsall (2011) Frames Of Mind® is our concept of using Stop Frame Animation as a communication tool, to produce unique digital portraits. Participants animate personal objects/belongings which become catalysts for anecdotes, and a recorded voice over narrates their story. "FRAMES OF MIND® at The Watermill, Walsall" in partnership with H21 Research and Evaluation. The project was a comprehensive evaluation and research analysis of the effectiveness/impact of Frames Of Mind®. The project investigated outcomes for service users, staff, carers and relatives, in terms of communication, empowerment, wellbeing, cognitive abilities and relationships. Training was an intrinsic part of the project, during which a collection of 12 eclectic animated films were produced by staff and residents. HOW YOU LOOK AT IT (2009) Was commissioned by The London Borough of Sutton to challenge stereotypical thinking and explore the potential of film and animation to engage people living with dementia. It is an insight into life in a care home, interwoven with the surrealism of ornaments on the move, dancing bananas and flirting clothes. "How You Look At It" was presented at the National Dementia Congress 2009 and is available to buy. Contact Salmagundi Films to order your copy. For more screening dates refer to our NEWS section. FRAMES OF MIND - Animating Life Stories (2010) Working with Housing 21 Dementia Voice to develop the potential of animation and film as an interactive Life Story Tool. The Animation software we use is simple to operate, it allows immediate playback, which helps mitigate problems with short-term memory and enhances control. There are no linear narrative constraints in animation, no right or wrong, anything is possible, and for people with dementia it can be a liberating creative experience. "Frames Of Mind - Animating Life Stories" was presented at the first Arts in Dementia Care, London Arts in Health Forum event. For a link to our article in the Journal of Dementia Care refer to our NEWS section. http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Courses-and-Training http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Courses-and-Training Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:23:33 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 309515 Courses and Training To make animated films YOU DON’T NEED: TO BE GOOD AT ART TO LOVE COMPUTERS TO BE A FILM DIRECTOR To make animated films YOU DO NEED: http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Inspiration http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Inspiration Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:42:53 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 303226 Inspiration Copyright notice: The pictures shown on this site are copyrighted material. You may not copy, publish, blog or reproduce any picture without our written authorisation. Thank you for respecting this. © Salmagundi Ltd CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS SERIES <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/salmagundi-films-inspiration28.jpg" width="670" height="449" width_o="670" height_o="449" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/salmagundi-films-inspiration28_o.jpg" data-mid="1873271" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/windmill shelter.JPG" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/windmill shelter_o.JPG" data-mid="2418152" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/hot baked.JPG" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/hot baked_o.JPG" data-mid="2418150" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/salmagundi-films-inspiration01.jpg" width="670" 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width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/her-e looking at you_o.JPG" data-mid="2418148" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/best wishes woolworths.JPG" width="389" height="583" width_o="389" height_o="583" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18529/303226/best wishes woolworths_o.JPG" data-mid="2418146" border="0" align="left"/> http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Creative-Learning http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Creative-Learning Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:42:48 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 303223 Creative Learning Animation is by default cross-curricular and multi-modal. The process encompasses many areas of learning, from Art, Literacy, to I.T., and can bring to life all other areas of the curriculum from Mathematics to Healthy Eating. The making of a film is an empowering process that encourages self-sufficiency, self-confidence, and improves social and emotional development, as well as being fun. NURSERY - Featured works include: GROWING ON YOU (2006) A collaboration with Sheringham Nursery and the Newham Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit. Based around themes of growth and life cycles, the nursery was transformed with giant installations and projection screens. The objective of "Growing On You" was to stimulate language through distorting the scale of their physical and visual environments. INSECTIVITY (2006) A four-day project at Ronald Openshaw Nursery that explored metamorphosis, and the secret world of insects: using built environments, and projections. Ideas from the project helped devise costumes for the Schools’ "Insectivity Street Carnival". YUM YUM (2007) Commissioned by The London Borough of Newham "Yum Yum" is a family learning project piloted at Ronald Openshaw Nursery. Children and parents produced animated films about healthy eating choices. PRIMARY - Featured works include: MAYFLOWER SCHOOL (2006) Funded by Awards For All. A commission from Mayflower School to produce an informative and accessible short film for parents and children newly arriving to the U.K. HUMAN MATHEMATICS and MOVING WORLDS (2008/2009) Two projects commissioned by Creative Partnerships / A New Direction for Downhills School. Both projects aimed to incorporate play into the learning process and to provide a structure for cross curricular creative thinking in Primary school education. EMOTIONAL LITERACY (2007) Commissioned by The Newham Behaviour Advisory Support Unit, funded by Excellence in the Cities. Working with children from 3 Primary Learning Support Units, to produce animations based around the theme of emotional literacy. Showcased at Stratford Picture House. SECONDARY - Featured works include: PIGS CAN FLY (2006) Funded by the Local Network Fund. An After-School film club at Rokeby School where 12-16 year old boys learnt animation techniques and used them as a vehicle to voice issues that concerned them. http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Salmagundi-Films http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Salmagundi-Films Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:09:18 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 276860 Salmagundi Films LADYBIRD GIRL LADYBIRD BOY (2009) The film is a shelf life retrospective which invites the audience to lose themselves in the empty aisles, immerse themselves in the marks and scars of a 75 year old family institution, Woolworths. Featured on the BBC1 IMAGINE programme Art in Troubled Times. FUTURE FRUITS (2008) Commissioned by Oasis Nursery to celebrate 30 years of an outstanding school, before it was demolished as part of the Canning Town regeneration programme. The film looks at the impact of this loss and the price of progress on the local community and families. THE CLAYS LANE DIARIES (2008) Funded by the DfES and backed by the Travellers Education Trust. An animation / film project with the Travellers community in E15 to celebrate their culture and 30 years of being on the site, before they were forced to leave by the Olympic development. For screening dates refer to our NEWS section. THE WEDDING STORY (2007) Commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse, a co-production with Jane Linz Roberts to produce animated films for projection in the children’s theatre production "The Wedding Story". WATTS THE POINT The East London tower block "Watts Point" is being demolished... A modern home with a view to some, a magnet for violence and trouble to others, is reduced to a mountain of rubble. A community responds to the regeneration happening around them, as Elvis sings on. http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Animation-Factory http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Animation-Factory Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:08:04 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 276859 Animation Factory These activities work across all ages, genders, cultures and abilities and provide a brief hands-on introduction to the magic of a world where anything is possible. THE VAULT PROJECT (2009) The Vault Project - a rolling one-day master class in animation provided for young people, in association with the East End Film Festival. FOREST GATE FESTIVAL (2005/6/8/9) Invent a character and bring it to life using stop frame animation! The animations were edited on site and projected on a giant screen, as part of the Forest Gate Festival. FOREST GATE HEALTHY LIVING EVENT (2009) Create a Super-Self and learn how to animate it, with friends and family. http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Family-Learning http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Family-Learning Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:07:41 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 276858 Family Learning Featured works include: ANIMATING THE WORD (2005-2007) Eight 10 week courses held in nurseries across Newham, where parents/carers and under 5’s had an opportunity to learn new skills. Adults devised, filmed and edited their own animations based on issues that concern them, whilst children worked on their own installations/film projects. The structure of the course was unique. It provided a parallel learning environment, where both parents and children could benefit from mutual creative expression and shared experience. FAMILY LEARNING - ST ANTONYS SCHOOL (2007) Selected siblings and family members were invited to the school to work on a shared film project. Learning new creative skills together was an empowering, mutually therapeutic and bonding exercise. The long term impact will be on the young people, their families, and the positive effects on their relationship. http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/Campaigns http://salmagundifilms.co.uk/following/salmagundifilms.co.uk/Campaigns Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:20:37 +0000 Salmagundi Films | Film & Animation, Education, Dementia Life Stories 214322 Campaigns SHELTER - KEYS TO THE FUTURE (2008) Part of the Shelter Campaign Keys to the Future, to raise awareness about the impact of homelessness. We worked with teenagers living in temporary accommodation in Newham to produce 5 short animations. The films are being used as a training resource for Schools and Borough Councils and are featured on the Keys to the Future website. "Everyone who has seen it thinks it is excellent and there are lots of ideas as to how it could be used to support our wider objectives." Ken Kanu, National Children's Service Co-ordinator "It is fantastic, one of the best pieces of AV I’ve seen in the last 3 years." Graeme Brown, Director of Communications, Policy & Campaigns NEWHAM ACTION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (NAADV) (2008) "Listen" - is a collection of 4 thought provoking and disturbingly honest films commissioned by Newham Action Against Violence to raise awareness about domestic violence. A group of 8-11 olds are given the opportunity to tell their side of their story. NEWHAM PRIMARY CARE TRUST (2010) Is an ongoing Teenage Sexual Health Project working in partnership with Newham’s sexual health service for young people Shine Aloud to produce short hard hitting films that will represent the voice, views and perspectives of the young people who devise them. "Live for Long Use a Dom" and "I.D. I DOM" are being distributed through the Shine network (schools and outreach events) screened in shopping malls, sexual health clinics and doctors surgeries. ROMA RAISING AWARENESS AND TRAINING (2009) "Salake the Snake" - is a short animation produced with the Travellers Education Trust in association with The Children’s Society. It was devised by the Roma group at Lathom Primary School as an educational resource, to celebrate diversity and bridge cultural divides for a group of Eastern European Roma children.