Karen Lee's reflection

The experience i gained from the Schindler house project was great. i enjoyed this Schindler house project and i've learned so much from it. Our group started off researching how the house is built what the behind story is about the house. we found out that the place was built as a studio, not much of 'home' to Schindler and his wife and his friends. the house was a working place for them and we thought it was very interesting how the house was used, so we began to focus on this idea of the house being used as a studio, then we created imagianry characters with different careeres as if they were the people who lived in the house when the house was built. There is Esther who is a photographer who is married to Karen, the housewife and Pauline who is a fashion designer and lives with Esther and Karen. Then we decided to capture the house and the characters on film. we researched on the house to see and learn about the history and what was going on during the era and we thought it would be very interesting to put some of the historical facts in 1920s(Prohibition) on the the film and this is how we got the hidden wine scene.  we also used Jazz as the background music to give the view the roaring 20's vibe. we used Bix Beiderbecke's Singing the blues and Billie Holiday's gloomy sunday. overall, i was very happy with how the final project came out and it was one of the best school experience i had during my Otis years. it gave me a chance to look the house differently. it is not just a residential architecture, but a house that two couples lived and shared their life styles together.
the project could have gone better, if i had more time to work and reseach more on the house. i felt that there is so many things to learn from the house. it was actually the couples who lived in the house that struck me the most. i wish i had more time to reseach on these people to make the movie more realistic.