This week, we got to work with the British kids! We made short, 1-minute movies with props that we chose at random. I worked with Olivia Snell, who also stayed at my house (and was wonderful). We got our prop, a large blue-green stone, and also a diamond ring, because no one else chose that one. We actually ended up using the ring more than the stone, because that was just the way our plot developed. We had a plot originally that involved fairies, but because we couldn't do the special effects we needed for that, we had to discard that idea. We needed a fair amount of extras for this film, and organizing that was fairly difficult. We stayed after school one day to film, and got all the footage we needed in one day, which was nice. The most important thing I learned from this experience was the importance of working fast when getting shots. We finished our project early and had a lot of time to fine-tune it because we got all our shooting done in one day. I hope that for CAP Hollywood we will be able to finish shooting in a similarly quick way.