Today Mat, Krys and myself applied for funding for our documentary. We've submitted a detailed account of what it's about, our goals for the doc and various other bits of information about us and our situation.
Fingers and toes crossed that we manage to get funding as we really need a camera and equipment as filming on a flip cam and smart phones simply won't cut it. We're cutting a teaser trailer to submit with our application in hopes of increasing our chances of success.
If we got it, it would make a huge difference having a camera of our own, we would have much higher quality rushes to work from and access to it 24/7, where as at the moment we don't.
Fingers and toes crossed...
Friday, 27 May 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
The balls rolling...
So after a week of research I'm beginning to make the baby steps to get the ball rolling on this mammoth project!
I'm in the process of setting up my website thanks to people around me willing to donate their time and energy in order to help me.
I've got one of my best friends raising money for me whilst running a half marathon in September!
I'm in talks with my old school about a Christmas Fair, in which the proceeds will in theory be going towards my fund.
There's a whole notebook of ideas compiled with the efforts of my amazing friend who is already doing a fabulous job! The ideas are starting to stack up. I'm beginning to realise just how much work this is going to be, I've no idea how we're going to juggle university and this at the same time...yikes! No-one said it was going to be easy so it's time to suck it up and get on with it. Here we go!
I'm in the process of setting up my website thanks to people around me willing to donate their time and energy in order to help me.
I've got one of my best friends raising money for me whilst running a half marathon in September!
I'm in talks with my old school about a Christmas Fair, in which the proceeds will in theory be going towards my fund.
There's a whole notebook of ideas compiled with the efforts of my amazing friend who is already doing a fabulous job! The ideas are starting to stack up. I'm beginning to realise just how much work this is going to be, I've no idea how we're going to juggle university and this at the same time...yikes! No-one said it was going to be easy so it's time to suck it up and get on with it. Here we go!
Saturday, 21 May 2011
First step: Applying
So...
After finding out yesterday that I was eligible for my new bionic prosthetic arm, I filled in my application form, giving details on my 'residual limb' including several photos for analysis so they can see how big it will need to be, from what point to start, how to fit it to me. From this I will know the price.
I've been told roughly £44-48,000! I have to say, I did know in the back of my mind it would be this much, considering it's robotic, but I don't know how I'm going to come up with that amount of money!
Time for me to do some serious thinking as to how I'm going to achieve this. Where there's a will there's a way!
After finding out yesterday that I was eligible for my new bionic prosthetic arm, I filled in my application form, giving details on my 'residual limb' including several photos for analysis so they can see how big it will need to be, from what point to start, how to fit it to me. From this I will know the price.
I've been told roughly £44-48,000! I have to say, I did know in the back of my mind it would be this much, considering it's robotic, but I don't know how I'm going to come up with that amount of money!
Time for me to do some serious thinking as to how I'm going to achieve this. Where there's a will there's a way!
Friday, 20 May 2011
New Discovery
Hi,
I'm Camilla, a student living in London, currently studying Broadcast Post Production at Ravensbourne.
The thing that makes me different? The fact that I was born with only my left arm and partial above elbow stump on my right. I've never had a definitive answer as to why I am the way I am, only speculation (mostly related to the fact that I was born 3 months premature). However, I count my lucky stars as my twin sister wasn't as fortunate and passed away after 10 days. So I chose to suck it up and get on with it, instead of letting it define who I am, I embraced it and rolled with the punches. It's been one helluva roller-coaster let me tell you.
Ever since I was a baby I've had a prosthetic arm, they were very basic back then, only having the option to open and close my 'hand' through muscle movement in my stump. This was extremely limiting (it was too strong to hold unstable things such as yoghurt pots and water bottles etc. I found them heavy and threw my balance out. All in all they were a hindrance - I couldn't use a ruler anymore, couldn't cut my food as I had without it. So at the age of 15 I stopped getting functional prosthetics and went for a cosmetic one. An arm to just hang at my side and fulfill the missing visual gap. This stopped the staring, but again, I found it incredibly difficult to adapt to and not get in the way of my way of doing things. After a year I stopped wearing it altogether and to this day, 6 years on, I haven't worn one.
For a while now I've been researching into functional prosthetics to see what advances had been made. I struggled to find ones that were geared towards people who had been born without limbs. Instead, they all seemed to be for amputees, operating on their ghost nerve endings and muscle impulses to operate them in terms of movement. I was starting to feel frustrated as although I'm used to the staring and questions, going to university and meeting so many new people really threw me back into the feelings and insecurities I had as a child.
I kept up the search, every couple months re-checking the situation when I stumbled upon a company with a prosthetic model that came out in 2007, with a new model released more recently, which created the world's first powered prosthetic hand with articulating digits. (More on this to follow).
I was super excited to see this so I emailed them regarding the prosthetic, whether I'm eligible to be fitted with one...
I'M ELIGIBLE!
I'm Camilla, a student living in London, currently studying Broadcast Post Production at Ravensbourne.
The thing that makes me different? The fact that I was born with only my left arm and partial above elbow stump on my right. I've never had a definitive answer as to why I am the way I am, only speculation (mostly related to the fact that I was born 3 months premature). However, I count my lucky stars as my twin sister wasn't as fortunate and passed away after 10 days. So I chose to suck it up and get on with it, instead of letting it define who I am, I embraced it and rolled with the punches. It's been one helluva roller-coaster let me tell you.
Ever since I was a baby I've had a prosthetic arm, they were very basic back then, only having the option to open and close my 'hand' through muscle movement in my stump. This was extremely limiting (it was too strong to hold unstable things such as yoghurt pots and water bottles etc. I found them heavy and threw my balance out. All in all they were a hindrance - I couldn't use a ruler anymore, couldn't cut my food as I had without it. So at the age of 15 I stopped getting functional prosthetics and went for a cosmetic one. An arm to just hang at my side and fulfill the missing visual gap. This stopped the staring, but again, I found it incredibly difficult to adapt to and not get in the way of my way of doing things. After a year I stopped wearing it altogether and to this day, 6 years on, I haven't worn one.
For a while now I've been researching into functional prosthetics to see what advances had been made. I struggled to find ones that were geared towards people who had been born without limbs. Instead, they all seemed to be for amputees, operating on their ghost nerve endings and muscle impulses to operate them in terms of movement. I was starting to feel frustrated as although I'm used to the staring and questions, going to university and meeting so many new people really threw me back into the feelings and insecurities I had as a child.
I kept up the search, every couple months re-checking the situation when I stumbled upon a company with a prosthetic model that came out in 2007, with a new model released more recently, which created the world's first powered prosthetic hand with articulating digits. (More on this to follow).
I was super excited to see this so I emailed them regarding the prosthetic, whether I'm eligible to be fitted with one...
I'M ELIGIBLE!
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