Residents Star in Documentary
Exploring Youth through the Ages
Students from Buckinghamshire New University filmed residents at Icknield Court, Princes Risborough last Thursday for a documentary exploring Youth through the Ages, which they are producing for their BA (Hons) Film and Television Production degree. They aim is to compare what people who grew up in the early – mid 1900’s thought about their childhood with what children of today think about theirs.
Seven residents at Icknield Court, a Fremantle Trust home, took part in the filming, carried out by the three students, and enjoyed reminiscing about their childhood days. Lighting, camera and sound equipment were set up in the home’s training room and created a lot of interest and conversation as residents chatted about their experience to each other and staff. Each interview took between 5 and 15 minutes depending on how much each person could recall. Questions included:
What kind of things did you used to do at weekends?
What career did you want to be involved in when you were a child?
What three things could you have not lived without when you were a child?
If you could, would you have wanted to grow up in today’s society, or do you think things were better when you were young?
According to the students, residents had some interesting answers about their childhood which differed from the school children they had previously interviewed. Children would often say they couldn’t live without materialistic things such as their “Nintendo Wii” whereas the older people more than often said “love” or, “Mum and Dad”, so there appears to be a distinction between what is important to children now as opposed to what was important to children in the early to mid 1900s. To the question about growing up today or when they actually did residents answers were mixed, some people said they would be too frightened to grow up in today’s society whereas some were quite keen on the idea of being a child today, mainly due to the opportunities children have in today’s society. However, most people said they would rather have grown up when they did.
Photograph: Stanley Chaplin recounting his weekend activities in athletics and other sports he used to take part in when he was young.
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Claire Gajeckyj, Marketing Manager on
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