A video designed to communicate Covid-19 guidelines to the disabled community is due to be released before Christmas. Highbury based Daylight Studio is partnering with Islington Council for the project, which aims to create relatable content that is for the community, by the community.
Daylight Studio forms part of the Daylight Resource Centre on Highbury Grove and, under the guidance of care worker Jack Daley, focuses on “enabling disabled people to create, record, and release music,” according to their website.
Daley said that the ‘Stay Safe’ series — which he hopes will be released before the end of the year — was born out of one of its service users’ own sense of confusion about “what they could and couldn’t do during the pandemic”.
Daley said that Daylight’s users are “the driving force behind each video”, and that presenting important information in an accessible way will make it “more digestible” and easier for Daylight’s audience to follow.
The team recorded the video series remotely due to challenges brought about by lockdown. This change has proved successful after some initial “teething problems”, Daley said, and has allowed them “to keep the community feel of Daylight alive throughout the lockdown”.
The pandemic has had a “massive impact” on Daylight’s users, he said, with the psychological impact of isolation compounded by early confusion about how they needed to change their behaviour in order to stay safe.
It has had a disproportionate impact on the physical health of members of the disabled community too. Analysis published by the Office for National Statistics on 18 September showed that disabled people made up 6 in 10 Covid-19-related deaths between March and mid-July — despite comprising less than 20% of the population.
