Digital life storytelling in action

Andrea Capstick and Katherine Ludwin

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Participants

Ten people with

dementia aged

76-99 years,

living in long-term

social care, whose

social participation

or well-being gave

cause for concern.

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Participatory video

• Gives people who are socially marginalised or excluded an opportunity to tell their story

• Choice of subject and content is left to participants to decide

• Participants’ voices provide the soundtrack

(Milne et al 2012; Capstick 2011)

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Findings

• It was possible to adapt participatory video for people with cognitive difficulties

• Significant impact on well-being and social participation

• Benefits continue whilst watching films later

• Valuable social history resource

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Here’s one we made earlier…..

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Bob:

• Born in Glasgow

• Merchant Navy

• Skiffle band

• Worked as a licensee and …?

• Singing group

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Favourites form

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Photo-elicitation

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Image searching

Glasgow Cross, 1950s10

• Online archives and local

history sites (eg

http://www.leodis.net/

• Scanned family photos

• Photos of favourite pictures

or objects

• Online image libraries (eg

Flickr)

• Clip Art

Copyright clearance

• Creative commons

• Different types of creative commons licenses:

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Best practices for citing creative commons image: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution

• Fair use

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Creating a storyboard

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Photostory 3

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=11132

File types supported by Photostory 3

• Common audio file types such as

• .wav

• .wma

• mp3

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Adding music

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Adding sound effects

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http://www.freesound.org/

Sound editing

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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Bob’s film:

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References

• Capstick A (2011) Travels with a Flipcam: bringing the community to people with dementia through visual technology. Visual Studies, 26 (2): 142-147.

• Harper D (2002) Talking about pictures: A case for photo

elicitation. Visual Studies 17 (1): 13–26.

• Milne E-J, Mitchell C and de Lange eds (2012) A handbook of participatory video. New York: Alta Mira.

NIHR-SSCR disclaimer: This presentation presents independent research commissioned by the NIHR SSCR. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the NIHR-SSCR or the DH, NIHR or NHS.

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