Reflection Essay
Valerie and I made a film about each person that we spent time with in the Music and Memory program. We had different main goals that drove each of our films. Our main goal for Ruth’s video was to represent her life in Indiana in the 1930s, a time that she spent most of our time together talking about, and the music that was present and that she loved during this time, and all the little things that were different back then like farming. For Lynn’s video, we wanted to let people know of his love for a wide variety of genres of music and the stories that came from learning them. We also wanted to show how silly but also calm he was and that he would burst out singing to anything that came to mind. We thought that it would be …show more content…
It is similar in the way that both videos show that music can make a connection and stories can unfold just by listening to a song. They are different in the way that we didn’t go into the dementia side, but more of making the video about our experience rather than theirs in the assisted living home. Some things that we tried to do the same as these films was that we really wanted to capture Ruth and Lynn as individuals in these films rather than just patents. Something that we wanted to do that was different from the films was focusing on what our time like was …show more content…
That we need to not shove our elders in homes, but celebrate them and learn from them is the biggest lesson I have learned. I learned that dementia doesn’t have to be seen as some terrible deadly disease, but just another thing some people have to adjust to along the road and it makes like different but life can still be fulfilling. Studying creative aging, ethnomusicology, applied research, and ethnographic scholarship through film shaped my learning process in a lot of different ways. The main thing I learned is that when learning things that apply to people they are REAL people with different experiences. You can’t just generalize people. I could incorporate the knowledge learned in this course in my future either personally or professionally in lots of ways. I learned a lot about dementia from the class readings and actually working with Lynn and Ruth and I plan on working eventually with people with schizophrenia and I think the interpersonal experience will be
Valerie and I made a film about each person that we spent time with in the Music and Memory program. We had different main goals that drove each of our films. Our main goal for Ruth’s video was to represent her life in Indiana in the 1930s, a time that she spent most of our time together talking about, and the music that was present and that she loved during this time, and all the little things that were different back then like farming. For Lynn’s video, we wanted to let people know of his love for a wide variety of genres of music and the stories that came from learning them. We also wanted to show how silly but also calm he was and that he would burst out singing to anything that came to mind. We thought that it would be …show more content…
It is similar in the way that both videos show that music can make a connection and stories can unfold just by listening to a song. They are different in the way that we didn’t go into the dementia side, but more of making the video about our experience rather than theirs in the assisted living home. Some things that we tried to do the same as these films was that we really wanted to capture Ruth and Lynn as individuals in these films rather than just patents. Something that we wanted to do that was different from the films was focusing on what our time like was …show more content…
That we need to not shove our elders in homes, but celebrate them and learn from them is the biggest lesson I have learned. I learned that dementia doesn’t have to be seen as some terrible deadly disease, but just another thing some people have to adjust to along the road and it makes like different but life can still be fulfilling. Studying creative aging, ethnomusicology, applied research, and ethnographic scholarship through film shaped my learning process in a lot of different ways. The main thing I learned is that when learning things that apply to people they are REAL people with different experiences. You can’t just generalize people. I could incorporate the knowledge learned in this course in my future either personally or professionally in lots of ways. I learned a lot about dementia from the class readings and actually working with Lynn and Ruth and I plan on working eventually with people with schizophrenia and I think the interpersonal experience will be