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 While taking out and putting in different props we also took the liberty to make our own fake home-made poison for our film opening. It was very fun to add our own little touches to our film to really make it like we actually produced it. We enjoyed every moment doing this fun activity together as a group, definitely wonderful memories.  

 This was day 1 of filming "The Housewife" on set at Kyle's house. On day 1 we realized just how much goes into making a set and getting props out of the way or putting in what looks good. For the first 45 minutes we were trying to move the light around to give us better lighting, we were also taking props out that didn't look like it was from the 50's, for example Kyle had a nutri bullet blender sitting on his counter and obviously that was not invented yet, so it had to be removed from set. 

 This is part 2 of our script outline for our film opening. It is just the basis of the actions taking place at the time and gives the viewers a sense of what is happening at this point in our film. 

 This is part 1 of our script for our film opening. Kyle and Ashyla took the responsibility of organizing the basis of our script just to understand what is initially happening. They spoke about how it was different having to come up with a script outline with no dialogue but having movement and context still able to be shown. When Kyle first pitched the housewife prompt, we as a group felt it lacked something so as a group, we helped each other come up with better dialogue and a more detailed script outline for our film opening. 

   As we slowly start to prepare to film or movie this week i would like to share my perspective throughout our movie process. I would like to think of myself as one of the directors, the other is Ashyla. Our actors are Kyle Mikes and Tyler Mikes (Kyle's brother) and last but not least the most important person is our editor, Matther Exavier. I say he is the most important because i can safely say without him the rest of the group would need serious help editing but lucky for us that is his favorite thing to do. My group and I decided to film our movie at Kyle's house, and we are eternally grateful towards him for offering his home because without it I'm not sure where we would find a suburban looking home for our movie. We did still run into complications however due to each of our schedules being different so just coming up with day to film was difficult. As high school seniors, we are very busy during the day and at night we need to be able to get enough sleep so filming...

 During class me and the other group members that will be doing the final film with me started a film pitch with the rest of our class. We, as a group, organized and came up with a film idea, pitched our concept for our movie to our classmates and they got to ask our group questions about our film to better understand the basis of it or to help us with some choices that were not yet made like where to film our movie. We were given feedback by other students in their production company, and they as well pitched their movie ideas to the class, and we all gave our feedback. Our movie pitch is somewhat a dark theme where a housewife living in the suburbs tries and successfully poisons her abusive husband in order to get rid of him for good. It will be taking place at a quaint little home in the suburbs, the home of one of our group members. The feedback we were given was that we need to work our plot as well as establish proper shots to emphasize the meaning of our film. 

 What is camera work and movement and why are these techniques important. During class i learned that camera work the elements and angles used while creating a film to give meaning towards it. In order to create a film properly, to be able to convey a message towards the viewer the director needs to understand the basis and foundation of film which is camera work. Plenty goes into deciding what angles to use and how to frame certain scenes, where to place the actors and props. Camera work is the center of film without its viewer's wouldn't be able to understand the general meaning of every film.  this photo was from a source titled Camera Work: The complete image collection: Alfred Stieglitz