After talking in class I kind of have somthings that really stick out to me.

My first indelible moment would be when the kids and I had our first major kind of dilemma in the house. One of the days about 5 months into working with the kids, the upstairs toilet overflowed and flooded the entire bathroom. Needless to say that because it was upstairs, that the water leaked through the floor and into the kitchen which was below. I can remember working as a team with the kids trying to clean up the floor and get the toilet to stop flowing water. I think of it as a bonding time with the kids because afterwards we were soaked head to toe and kind of all just sat on the floor and laughed. I can remember the sound of the water, and the kids slipping in it over and over again, but I couldn’t get mad, all I could do was laugh because everyone was drenched.

- In the bathroom,   

-smell of wet everything,

- water dripping,

-running down the stairs,

 -smile on zach’s face,

- Sadie laughing and crying,

 -Chloe slipping in the water and looking for towels.

-Being downstairs in the kitchen and watching the water pour from the ceiling.

My second moment would be the first time I kind of had to spend a full week with the kids and they told me how much they loved me. I can remember just being all together watching tv and playing with the kids and as they settled down to go to bed the youngest one said ,”I love you Dacey.”  (She calls me Dacey because she can’t say the S for Stacey). I think this was the moment that I really felt closest to the kids and realized that I meant a lot to them and their parents trusted me enough to be left alone with them for a week and to have all the responsibilites of three kids.

The setting was the living room.

On the couch

Smell of popcorn and Sprite soda

Watching Chicken Little

Sadie, Chloe and Zach all in Pajama’s

Blankets.

Curtains closed, nighttime 8:45

I think for the first list that I posted I would use this to show kind of a frustrating moment combined with a bonding moment with the kids. I think it would be cool to somehow show like their bathroom and somehow use the sound of water, the kids, and kind of the frustration yet humor of it all to make a good scene. For editing I think it would be neat to kind of start off showing a state of panic and then kind of show the kids all wet, or something of it, and then tie in us laughing and being together. I dont’ know if i would use any words at this part or just kind of use like a voice over or even just have words flash on screen. I like the ideas of it.

I think for this same list I could also show how the kids and I did more of playing in the water then cleaning for the first bit of it. Then maybe I could write in how my frustration with the situation was torn away by the fun we had and I kind of just had to let go. For this I could show more of me and kids interacting. I could use some sort of music first that is kind of like frustrating and then have music that’s happy and fun-loving. I was also thinking of doing like a pan of the entire scene bathroom and kitchen and then after showing the kids and zooming in on each one of them.

The more I look into it the more interesting it seems, and I’m kind of looking forward to getting my ideas more clear cut, and focused.