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Pre-Production As director, my objective was to tell a story cinematically. For the film, I chose the role of the director because I knew a numerous amount of different camera shots in which I could choose to use. The editor was given her role because she knew how to incorporate my ideas into the film. The cinematographer, on the other hand, was given his role because he had prior knowledge about cameras and could capture my vision for this film. In order to create the desired film, a genre was established; therefore, I made the executive decision to use the genre of horror. The film was about a mother who murders her two children. As director of this film, I knew I did not want to show the killing due to my lack of experience in knowing how to safely create a murder scene. As a result, I decided to have the mother lure her kids into their house and then have a fade-to-black. Afterwards, the audience would see the mother covered in blood walking to the sink. She would then wash blood off of a knife, and the blood would rinse down the sink drain which is similar to "The Shower" scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). In this scene, the goal was to cause the audience to infer that something had happened to her children, and the mother had been the cause of it.

Other than creating the vision of the film, I had the responsibility, as director, to find the actors. My editor offered her mom and dad as actors for the film. Her mom played the mother, who killed her children, and her dad played the psychiatrist. The editor also knew a young girl at her church, who could act as one of the mother's children. As a result, I was left with having to find one more actor to play the role as the second child. I, then, asked potential actors in which I felt I could trust to take on the role; therefore, I asked one of my colleagues and he agreed to take the role. Finally, I had to select the location of the film. I knew in order to instill the effect I was