"Flowers of the Fall" Over Fall Break

Over fall break, instead of heading back home to visit my friends and family like many of our classmates did, I chose to work on Ethan Burch's senior film "Flowers of the Fall". I was assigned the position of grip and electrician, which is not one of the top positions of course, but I was eager get involved any way I could. Even though we had to be at our call time of 6:30 a.m. every morning, it was more than worth it!

In one of the pre-production meetings, our producer told us our production was not assigned a behind-the-scenes person. She told us she wanted us to share any of the photos we took, either on our phones or cameras. I decided I would bring my camera along with me, unsure if I would actually use it much or not. Boy, did I use that camera a lot!

I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to take pictures of, so I just shot a bunch of pictures of everyone setting up at first; some people posed for pictures too. I thought at least people would have a few pictures to look at after we were done filming, but eventually people started saying "hey, BTS, take a picture of this!". BTS stands for behind the scenes, so I was really grip half time and the behind the scenes photographer the other half. I ended up taking hundreds of pictures each day, almost 1,000 total!

On top of being one of the grips and BTS, I had a great overall experience with everyone on set! Everyone got along very well and was part of a hardworking team. I'm definitely glad I didn't go home for break, I wouldn't have wanted to miss out on such an awesome experience! I'm not going to spoil anything for you on here, but I can't wait for the premiere!!