Find out about the evolution of our unique products
With a combined 80 years of film making experience, our team has helped Siren Films become recognised as a leading expert in creating training resources for the study of child development. Our films support academics, professionals, therapists, nursery staff and anyone who aspires to help children lead happy lives and reach their full potential.
By capturing children behaving naturally, doing what they do, we’re able to honestly test theories and open up the discussion for new ones in the process. It is these formative years of a child’s development that are so crucial to their behaviour and learning in later life. What we provide are the required tools to equip childcare professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to excel within this field.
What really sets Siren Films apart is the time we spend with individual children. We’re often there throughout their early years, returning on a regular basis to observe and record progress. This allows us to study their development over a substantial period of time and provides truly absorbing subject matter for debate in the classroom.
This then lead to a job doing research on communication difficulties in children who didn’t talk. Wendy became fascinated by the development of their nonverbal communication and was keen to find a way of showing this process and her findings to teachers in training…
Around this time she created her best productions to date – two lovely daughters… and they too became her subjects, closely observing and filming their behavior and development as they grew. With a free reign on this footage, Wendy began to chop into it, keeping the best bits and recording voice overs to explain what was happening...
Wendy had stumbled into making reality TV 1970s style!
After six weeks of filming and a year spent in the editing room, the production called 'Woodbine Place' finally emerged. It was first aired in 1987 at a decidedly unsociable hour on Channel 4 and Wendy wasn't expecting much... It was a huge success...
Wendy's love of film making and studying child development using a scientific observational style has developed into the products we know and love today...
With help from experts
With the help from esteemed Early Years experts and 100s of hours of filming, in homes and childcare settings around the country, eventually Wendy and her now small team, had produced a comprehensive library of films, (winning a handful of awards along the way)...
Joined by her daughter Katrina (remember the start of Wendy's first accidental film) the Siren team continue to grow, all spurred on by a passion for film making and it's power to get across the important aspects of effectively supporting young children...
So whether you want to increase your own skills or to support others to do so, Wendy's tried and tested method of linking real life examples of children's behaviours with current theories and research is a recipe for successful learning... So what are you waiting for? Go and try out some of our training products today