- This illness is much more known to other people as they can use adjectives to describe the mental illnes, for example, 'crazy, sick or mad'. Such adjectives signify how schizophrenia is perceived in the eyes of the public and for us doing this documentary, we wanted people to learn that people who suffer from schizophrenia are just as normal as everyone.
- I have studied schizophrenia in my psychology lessons, so getting involved with such an amazing project to work with enables me to help people who suffer from schizophrenia to be able to come out of their shell and become much more involved in everyday activities
- In addition, schizophrenia is the main mental illnesses that affect young adults mostly than any other age group. So doing this project with a schizophrenic at the age of seventeen makes the documentary more relaistic and follows the conventions of when the early symptoms of schizophrenia start to occur.
In this documentary,David Failler reflects on his journey against a life threatening illness, schizophrenia. This documentary was filmed in Harris Crystal Palace by Naomi Tshiayima and Miriam Gwokyalya. In this blog, we analyse our steps in producing a fine piece of work and our challenges and obstacles and how we overcame the them.
Thursday, September 23
Our Project - Schizophrenia
We chose to do schizophrenia for three main reasons:
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