We want a nice angle to shot a close up.

From a different angle of the author.

The book.

Sometimes things in the background.

I've always had the philosophy that you want to learn by doing.

That's how I learned.

The best classes that I took in college were classes from my undergrad to my masters to my doctoral classes.

But the best classes I took were classes that I actually did stuff.

I'm a hands on person by nature.

I think this field is for people that are hands on.

And so because I learned that way.

I wanted to teach students that way.

And so when I was coming up with the show idea, I wanted the primary workers on the show, the primary crew on the show to be college students.

And I wanted to give them an experience that they couldn't get anywhere else.

And I think when you work on a show that has external standards, you can do a campus show.

But a lot of times a campus show doesn't have standards that are reviewed externally, or you can fudge them a little bit because it's only going to a small audience and everyone sees it as well.

These are students learning, and I really wanted to give students the experience of what is it look like when you work on a show where it's reviewed by other people, and you have to hit those standards in order for it to go out?

And so that's where as we're creating this show, that was really what was at heart.

And that's the philosophy we have used for this show since the very beginning, is students are the primary crew members on the show.

One tell me your first and last name and you don't have to talk, but just tell me a little bit about yourself looking at you, right?

I'm looking at you.

Right.

Okay.

My name is Tripp Richards.

I'm a junior USV, interdisciplinary studies major, and I worked on the books for the ever show as a camera operator.

Okay.

Anything that you want to say to them before we talked about the new positions and the look we're going for.

I think we made it a little bit uncomfortable for you on the wing cameras because of the hats.

Taylor.

Yeah.

Taylor and Tripp.

Sorry about that.

But it's the only place that gives us a little bit of depth built wise.

Showed them that they can actually rotate the viewfinder this way.

Yeah, I'm actually very nimble all the time.

Yeah.

So that she can actually, like, she can stand to the side of it if she needs to.

Always had a passion for just broadcast production, TV, things like that.

It's one of my favorite things to do, is watch TV, but also just see the ins and outs of it.

And during one of my advising meetings last year, I was talking to Doctor Sawyer, who's my advisor, and she was like, hey, I have an opportunity for you.

I can work on the books by there.

Ever show to national television show?

It's it's a good opportunity if you're really, really interested in this thing.

And I said, why not take a swing for it and let's see what let's see what happens.

So that's how I first got introduced to it.

And then been in love ever since.

So I love it.

This is a great.

Oh, because you're not you don't feel like you're looking directly.

You know, this is like, oh is this cool?

Is this angle.

And then it's like turn.

So it's going it's like like like it's cockeyed or something.

Yeah.

Hey, doc, would you mind if I just threw a book right there?

No, I don't mind that.

That's fine.

The headset of the landing gear and all you have to do just turn it on like this was.

Thank you so much.

So I brought a camera for a lot of.

I get a lot of the shots of the guests.

A lot of times if you see the close up shots of the guest, that's my camera angle or, the promotional or the the book readings, all those come from my camera, which is pretty cool.

It's, it's a little bit of pressure because that is the, you know, they come on the show every week to see the new guest.

Holly's there every week, but they know they want to see these guests.

So you have to get those shots perfectly or try to and really just, kind of predict where it's going.

Where, I think I've learned working with daughter Sawyer is that I know kind of what she wants and when she wants it, when to take different shots.

But it's really fun working on working on the camera.

It's it's a lot less technical than you might think.

A lot of it's just, you know, listening to instructions, understanding, where to be and when to be there.

So I work on a camera.

I work on a camera for.

About the time.

So, yes.

Now you're ten years old.

Like, most of my job is before the concert.

So everyone gets to sit down.

You know, for whatever there's a cool.

Yeah.

And I kind of move the town around, so someone's parked in front of it, and I'll just find that spot.

Hi.

I'm, Erica Swanson, but I go by faith.

I'm locally here.

From here, from Beaufort.

And I decided to stay at home just because I absolutely love it.

I do have my own place now in Bluffton, and, I just love to get to know that community right now.

So let me just make it all up pretty in here, okay?

And then, just, like, check in the corners and things, because you know how easy it is for, like, trash to get thrown there and send the trash can.

Usually the trash cans, like, pretty empty.

I leave it, okay.

And all the cleaning supplies.

Yeah.

Beautiful folder.

Just a warning.

I found out the hard way when you let go of it, it slammed shut pretty loud.

So, like, if you are doing things and, like, they are still here.

Yeah, you want it to be.

Yeah.

Just like, keep an eye out.

So I did a study abroad program with Doctor Sawyer, and during that program, I kind of started directing everyone, naturally.

Just because we're all having to get on and off trucks and we're going places and then having to just move around a lot.

And I was.

Yeah, doctor Sawyer said.

I was really good at telling people what to do, and she needed someone to be the mini boss.

So that is what I'm here for.

Okay, so now just before things, yeah, M2 is practice.

That's how I like to think about it.

The M2 first two comes before three times is practice and three is is real deal.

I will go down in like normal time because if you did like 22 minutes when you're on M2 it'll go down fast.

But like it, it'll be a okay.

So I keep this is where I stand during all production just because.

And I have like all these like site at me.

And if I need to be like stretching or, you know, wrap it up, this is pretty much only two things.

And I run that back on a something I wanted to write.

Oh, just like letting them know that you're the person that they can come to it to about everything and that, like pointing out the itinerary on their door after you bring them to the restroom pretty much immediately, just to end, but also to let them know, you know, you will be the person kind of directing them the whole time.

Like, I'll be telling you what we need from you and if you need things again, also, you can even just kind of like reassuring them that, like, you're the friendly face.

I will be helping them out through the whole experience.

Okay, so he showed me who this was and this is my first time ever actually, like doing it myself.

But my headset's always going to be this one.

And so you'll be the far I can get this in.

Like you'll be the far right one.

I am Guest relations and the floor director.

So I actually have two roles.

But they actually do overlap some, which is nice.

Makes things easy for me because it just kind of flows into the other, starting off from putting out signs and making sure that the author has a place to park, a place to have a changing room and a restroom, and then greeting them at the door, bringing them in, making sure they feel comfortable and confident in what they're about to do.

If they ask if they have any questions, they ask me, And then when it comes down to actual production time, I make sure that everyone's in their places.

Everyone doesn't have any questions for me or have any issues that I can go and report to Doctor Sawyer and get fixed.

So then they don't have to leave their stations.

And then I also make sure that it's quiet on set.

I count everybody in.

So when it's time to start filming, I'm the one that, you know, tells us it's time.

And then I also direct the author into other aspects of production so it can flow easily.

Oh, well.

Thank you.

I want to put on the door.

I'm like, oh no, how did I get here?

So.

It's.

Okay, okay.

So.

One specific challenge was I had to take someone else's role when they weren't here.

And that was floor director.

I was nervous, I wasn't sure about it, but it helped me step out of my comfort zone of being shy, and it put me out there, and I'm glad I tried it.

But as you can see, the.

Thank you.

Once you.

Guys like fix you did something different.

Like I like the straighter hair just because it gives us a different look.

Yeah, yeah, it looks so shiny.

Yeah, yeah, it looks good.

Looks so comfortable that match.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

We can do this.

And then we can push up and do the two shots.

I can see the back of.

It looks great actually.

That's awesome.

Besides that, I also want to.

Yeah.

I think I was on here last year and I was the host assistant last year, and I, actually, I was in a cast.

I was using a scooter and I was in a boot, so I just thought it would be great to come back this year and be able to do different positions and be able to do more and walk this time.

Oh yeah.

Yeah yeah yeah.

I just want to make sure we're okay with audio.

For.

Okay.

My name is Taylor DaSilva.

I'm a senior at UCB, and, I'm an honors marine biology major, but I have a minor in communications, and.

Yeah, a book in the hands.

It's like the handshake into the book, and it reaches like a handshake there.

We get stories and journeys of those.

Where did you just had a white balance?

That's campus.

Like when we are like a ballpark.

Depending on where we're at, the shows always start.

It's like 530, but it could be 530 and, you know, the sun could still be up, or it could be like, you know, to that sunset.

So like, we have to read White Balance.

Our cameras, work at least like 2 or 3 times throughout the night and, like, like balancing.

You really don't have to do out, but, Like, back focusing, like, we don't really need to mess it back, but this is for this, all right?

I actually, it's kind of a funny story, so I work with Doctor Sawyer, who's the director of the show, and I actually have a a podcast with her, and she was talking about, her books by the river class that I could take.

And she said that it was it would be a really great way for me to get hands on experience working behind the camera and on a studio set in general.

So she recommended the course to me, and I was like, you know what?

That sounds like a lot of fun.

So I ended up signing up for it.

Yep, I gotcha.

I was like, okay, what do you like?

Stresses.

And sometimes people going to hear that might not very likely in the car.

So hopefully that's okay.

Oh yeah okay.

Yeah.

It was more like a text.

Well it's like a linen dress.

So anyway, but I set it up and I was like, I like how it looks like.

And typically it just goes by.

That's just like, yeah.

I think a challenge for me is making sure that I'm on top of it consistently and engaged in what the directors are asking from me.

Sometimes it can be a little difficult because there's a lot of chatter going on in your ear, but also on set with the interview.

So just making sure I'm paying very close attention to not only what's being said, but what's being asked of me as well.

And making sure I deliver that shot as quick as possible, but also maintaining a good frame as well, because you don't want it to look sloppy.

So just being able to get that shot on a timely manner, I think is probably the biggest challenge.

I'm doing at the beginning.

No.

It's a totally it's an overall promo.

Oh, so we're just going to shoot on camera two and, and one because I want to see both works.

And then in her, like, normal close up shot that we do at the beginning and then we'll, record, I'm recording the audio.

I'm Jacob, I'm from East and South Carolina.

My favorite hobbies are just playing guitar, just sitting out in the ocean.

Oh, she looks great.

Rebound questions?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's was kind of a long journey.

First, I really didn't know what I wanted to do.

So first of all, an art major.

And then, because I felt like I really did want to work in this industry, but I didn't know where to go yet.

And so I talk to my dad for a little bit, and then we decided that it'd probably be best for me to go to into communication studies, venture.

And so I worked with Doctor Sawyer for one class and one semester that was sports broadcasting.

And she was.

And she brought the idea of, in the spring, a chance to work on first, the first national season.

Yeah.

What was that look in your camera work or something that like better.

Yeah.

That looks good or bad.

Was until we start turning the pages.

Hi, I'm Holly Jackson, your host of books by the River.

Thanks a lot for joining us on this journey where we sat beside the writers who tell the stories that sometimes feel like our own, or give us a glimpse of the experiences of someone we need to know here to talk with us today is Emily Carpenter, author of Gothic Tale.

Ultimately.

And that's fine.

Yeah.

You want to go through the, Yeah.

My name is Turner Owen, and.

Oh, sorry.

What was the question?

That's my first and last name.

And then hobbies like interests.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

My name is Turner Owen.

And some of my hobbies and interests include, music and creative.

Just creative stuff.

And I love sports.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

So to download.

So.

Yeah, yeah.

So we're going back to like the head being at that top five front, like any time when we're on single shots or double shots, like I don't think it is my second year, books by the River.

But basically I was getting my registration done for my classes, and daughter Sawyer was my advisor at the time, and she had a little poster on her door, and it was talking about working for a TV show, and I was like, wow, that would be a really, really, really cool experience to do.

So I started talking with her and, she was like, yeah, if you if you sign up for the class, you know, I'll let you come and work on the show.

And I did it for the first time, last year.

And I was, digital media coordinator, which was basically just, like, taking photos of Holly and the guest and all the behind the scenes stuff and editing and just putting all those pictures in for use for the show, MTV, all of that stuff.

And then, this year I'm a camera operator, which I do enjoy a lot more.

It's it's much less of a role.

I feel like it's less less draining.

And, it's also just very helpful.

There are some people, who work on the show now who have never worked with the equipment that, that we use.

So having that experience and being able to help down is, is really, really rewarding.

I love that I know right now.

So you came in the most perfect outfit?

Yeah.

She either one looks nice.

It's also like, you know, you if there is, you're if your feet are in the frame, it's only going to be in there for a moment.

We're focused on you.

Perfect.

So okay.

Today we are, nursing Turner and Tia.

Okay.

So, we have you run camera two, okay?

And you're going to be back on camera three that you did last week.

So, so that should be helpful because with your expression, your your mind, with that, your floor directing.

I'm switching and then everyone else is doing their regular job.

Okay.

My name is Ashley Schaefer.

I love music.

Taylor Swift and all things media.

Okay.

One want the water?

It's nice so much, I, the social media content creator.

So I'm in charge of training images and videos during the production.

You like to write at home or.

Oh, public.

Gotta be in the house, right?

Like the swamp or the mountains?

Mountains.

Getting to see and hear, the different authors, they all bring like a different story and perspective of like their life stories has been very inspiring because I feel like I don't have much direction and where I want to go and like just seeing them talk about their book and seeing the physical copy.

Like you can see that there.

That's something they're proud about.

And you can tell that they worked hard for that.

And so I think working hard really pays off.

And that's what I'm aiming to do.

Claire it says River bank or cotton field, River bank.

You can't catch fish in a cotton field.

I'm like, I don't know, I'm done some years ago.

I'm Kayla Shreve.

I am from Atlanta, Georgia.

I'm a communications major.

I enjoy reading, I enjoy writing, and I also love scrapbooking.

Take one.

Ready to take two?

Three.

Take three.

Ready for take four.

So if you want to, I can run through with you because I put a headset on this one.

Yeah.

We can do some practice.

From when I first started, I was, TV production assistant, so I would help Doctor Sawyer with the paperwork, making sure that I interacted with the guests.

And just kind of helped as a backup person.

And then I learned, shortly after that, I really enjoyed being a technical operator.

So now I work the switchboard in the control room, ready to take two, three, four.

Take four, three, one.

Take one.

Okay.

Yeah.

So you hear me tell other people to set their shot a certain way, and then I'll say, ready?

Okay, I hear that.

So the first, Oh my gosh, look at all I'm going to create for me.

One year, one year apart.

One year.

Yep.

Yeah, yeah.

So it feels good that your first thing I do I time out.

So we work behind the scenes on Boats by the River, which is a national TV show where we interview southern authors.

In college, students have the opportunity to work different areas like, cameras or technical operators like the switchboard or the teleprompter to kind of help produce the show.

So we're rolling.

Yes.

Okay.

We go, all right.

We're rolling.

So we're going to start.

So camera two, give me your two shot.

Yeah.

Her single shot.

Sorry.

Thank you.

So, ready to take two?

Okay.

All right.

And, I'm.

I'm.

Within our reach is like a handshake to the connection we all need at home.

For them with a friends, family and those characters, we never even knew we needed in our lives.

Until we start turning the pages.

We're not.

We're going to stay on 2 to 2 camera for so far in a preview.

Okay.

All right.

And, Faith, you're ready to count her in.

Here to talk to us today about our Molly Barnes, her of paper heroines that are better bars today for us.

Thank you so much for that.

Really good to be here.

All right.

To tell us a little bit about yourself and about your first book.

And, so I am a professor at the University of South Carolina, Buford.

So it is home to get to be here.

And I feel so lucky to get to be part of it every day.

But it feels like the book that I have always had.

Give me a close up.

You know, I feel like that was me before because it's about women.

It's about women's history and friendships, and it's always first.

The subject of the first chapter, Fanny Campbell, was living in the Georgia.

Dream last year, and this is the first year I'm not sure what's going on.

It's the like again.

Yes, to meet again.

And there's the wire.

What are y'all hearing?

Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.

We need to put a windscreen on it.

I can't remember if I start from the top.

I'm fine with that.

But, now that we're here and we've stopped, I'm wondering, did her bracelet.

I was going to take it off.

There's just something.

Some part of it is.

Let me just put it in my pocket.

Yeah, because I don't want to do the other one.

That's okay.

It was that.

Yeah okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Everyone was very like a pull pull.

The little one's me on there to get help.

Okay.

So I'm feeling good now.

Yeah.

It was started to start at the top and I had so camera to take to.

Oh no it's not your fault.

Yeah.

Her.

Put it off.

Sorry.

I don't know why I thought she could hear me from you guys.

Sorry.

Oh, she's talking to you there.

She forgot.

You can't hear it.

Oh, no, don't worry about it, okay?

Something got okay.

Thank you.

Can countering I'm reset the clock.

Right.

Okay.

Thank you.

My.

My name is Riley.

Sarah.

I am the teleprompter operator for books by the River.

I'm a senior at USB.

I get the script from Holly and I format it into the teleprompter, and I just double check that everything's correct and that, I'm used to the speed of the teleprompter.

I also pay attention to the author's, responses, so I don't put, questions up that they might have already answered.

Doctor Sawyer was my advisor.

I had taken a sports broadcasting class with her, and I worked some basketball games at USC, and she really liked my work ethic and the effort that I put into production.

So she'd I'd be a great asset to books by the River.

And now I don't do much warehousing here.

Yeah, well, you know, you're always.

For.

A little bit.

On the wall.

Yeah.

No.

I'm.

The director.

I'm always.

You know, I got to open the box.

Show.

So you want to do so over here.

So I you.

Ricky, I can't hear.

Well, yeah.

And it's also just like two interviews.

I've never.

Doctor Sawyer was my advisor, and we were talking, and I was talking to her, and I actually we were talking about this for different reasons.

But it's funny looking back now.

And she was talking about her show and she was like, well, like, if you need another class because I was looking at either this or an internship and she was like, if you need another class, like you can come be like the photographer, like whatever you want to do on my show.

And I was like, okay, like, I would, I would love to do that.

Sounds so fun.

And so she, I ended up never finding an internship.

And so I came here and on the show, and I'm having so much fun.

That's true.

Brought me back to my rest.

Well, you got to pull up to a TV studio in the back of a junior college.

I hope he's like, well, this is pretty cool.

I try to think about it right now.

It's like flowers are fine.

I just had to start school.

Career.

I think I supposed to work a little bit.

Yeah, they were great.

And they actually set off.

Yeah, I think they look really, really nice.

Honestly, I'm up late at the book.

I was like, oh, oh man, it's okay Rob, I'll get some pictures of you.

Did somebody get her?

Yeah.

So I am the photographer on the show.

I take pictures of like the behind the scenes and Holly and the guest, and I'll just get, like, a bunch of behind the scenes, like people working and just kind of like, show people like what?

How it's made, but also like it being made at the same time.

So I'm trying to get like two different perspectives of how it's like, okay, yeah, like this is what you're saying and this is what's happening.

We're live.

But this is how it was also made for behind the scenes look.

And then you get one of your is like right, you have.

Well, I just want you to.

The books books books is good.

Do you know the timeline of how books by the River came to be?

I was sitting with Don goldish, and he had showed me the studio and was showing me.

Here's where you're going to teach.

And I said, well, this is a great studio.

We should do more than teach classes.

We should do a show.

And he said, well, that would be great, but what are you thinking?

And I said, well, I just went to the Pat Conroy Literary Festival, and I am just enthralled by the number of high quality authors coming out of this area.

And I really think it's because it's just magical on the water here.

I mean, Beaufort, Beaufort County is just a very magical place.

How could you not be inspired to write?

I said, what if we did a writer show?

And he said, well, we used to have a writers show.

It ran for 20 years.

It would be great to have something similar to that.

Let's do that.

This show started out as an experiment.

It was built around the idea of, of of art relationship with the Buford, the program there, and trying to bolster a communications program, the broadcast and film studies program, and also to infuse, the future public media folks and Romanian folks in general in, in our system, and also to help us have some people that we really like to work with, you know, that can provide professional skills as they develop those.

So that's November of my second year here.

So that's 20th November 2017.

And then Holly starts her job January 2018.

And her first day in the office, I walk in and said, hey, would you like to host a television show that we're going to do?

And she said, yes.

And she literally showed up the first day had given birth to a baby not long before that.

And I'm sure that I just like whirlwind bombarded her.

I was in my office.

I had just met daughter Caroline Sawyer, and she walked by and popped her head in and said, I'm thinking about doing the show and it's going to be with authors.

And, do you want to host it?

Well, I just started.

Of course, I'm going to say yes.

I'm like, yeah, I really didn't know what I was getting into and certainly didn't know what it was going to become.

But I'm glad that I said yes.

Fast forward to May.

We offered it is a master course.

We had 25 students in the class and we shot 17 episodes in two weeks.

Yeah.

And it was, it was a lot.

So they tried the green screen experiment and it failed miserably.

And it visually, it felt miserably and and it wasn't their fault.

It was it was the technology problem.

And then.

But what what happened, curiously enough, is that our programing director still put it on the air.

We were getting all kind of emails and phone calls about they love the author's interview, so we knew we had a content hit.

We just didn't have a visual hit.

We we shot two.

We shot two episodes, almost two episodes a day for two weeks with students who'd never done a show.

Holly had not done a long format show like that.

It had been a long time since I'd done a long format show, and it looked horrible from a technical perspective, but the content and the interviews were phenomenal.

Holly has such a natural presence on the screen, and she has such a great presence in person that people just want to talk to her, and it really translates well on television.

And even though we all knew it looked bad, people watched it and they loved it and we couldn't.

Not from the very first season.

We could not get people to stop asking us to be on the show.

So we then we flipped the script, changed it around, and now finally, we got the 4K technology in there and Covid changed things up dramatically.

How we did the show and this that.

Now we're where we need to be.

We're we're in the sweet spot.

We're in the sweet spot when it comes to the show.

And it's been, it has been some of the best eight years in my life.

I got out of the military and I further my education.

And when I was getting my, my bachelor's degree, I went to USB, and I met Caroline.

She was my professor, and she I, you know, one of the things we had to do is intern.

And she had the she gave me the opportunity to be the promotional producer, I believe on by the River at the time.

And so I started there, when I was the promotional crusader and I was working on the social media assets, I really wasn't that in love with it.

But I really enjoyed, you know, the back side of working in production and seeing how everything flows and through that, Caroline and Don obviously were talking, and they needed someone to be the associate producer for After Action.

And so I was getting ready to graduate and, Don and Caroline thought that I more Caroline than Don.

He didn't know me so well, but, they thought I would be a good fit to work on after action.

And so I came along as the associate producer in season one.

And then from there, I just learning the, the pre-production side, learning the logistics of preparing everything.

I think some of my, military history came out in that.

And I love organization.

I it's so important to me.

I love the structure.

And I loved being able to be that point of contact to ensure everything was getting done.

And that's kind of where I fell in love.

I think was pre-production for After Action Season one.

And so from there, I think Don saw that I had some potential, I suppose.

And so I was, you know, I ended up in the position that I am now, but I started as a student, with USB.

The most rewarding part of my job is to be completely honest.

It's changed throughout the years, and at this moment in time, it is watching the students, University of South Carolina be for, We've had such an amazing group of students this season, really all seasons.

But this one stands out to me because they seem to be really hyper focused on being in this field, and that excites me.

And so getting to be around people who have the same interests as me, and I can kind of talk about like where I've been and also learn a lot from them because the students they grew up with technology in their hands were added not.

And so they know a lot more than I do in certain ways, in this field.

And so it's really cool to learn from them as they learn from me at the same time.

What do you mean?

No, no, no, I don't I isn't going to wear a fancy shirt, so.

From the student perspective, I really want them to see that you don't have to be a technical person to work on a show.

There's lots of different types of people that make a show.

What you have to love is storytelling, and that there's all these different skills that you can bring to telling a story, and that at its heart, storytelling is, is is a human component.

We all tell stories.

We tell stories to our friends.

We tell stories to our family.

We tell stories to ourselves.

We've read stories, and that is a part of being a human.

And I want students to see that that's that's part of life and that you can do it.

And also not to limit yourself to what you think you can do.

But there are so many, bigger things that our skills fit into and that there's nothing wrong with taking a risk and trying something new and growing into something that we and we all started somewhere.

We all started in that place of not knowing how to do something.

And so putting yourself out there just a little bit and trying something new, it is something that we should all be trying for the rest of our lives, because that's something that can bring us to a very private audience show that's just working with the cameras and working with everybody.

You know, it's a very it's a very supportive group, very fun.

And, I look forward coming every day because it's it's never boring.

I love it.

And so I think learning that I am good at operating different equipment kind of makes me feel good.

And, it's a new path that I may be willing to explore.

Definitely, definitely the people and opportunities that come after this.

I feel like, working with daughter Sawyer.

Holly.

Great, great role models, just great personalities to be around.

Their ability to take stress in when they have these stressful things, these mishaps, and then turn it around and thrive off of that is is outstanding.

And then the other students I work with, my peers, I just it's fantastic.

I feel like every time I come in on a Wednesday, coming on a Friday, seeing the face of like for me, it's other camera operators like, Turner, Jacob and Taylor.

It's really cool to see them just because they're like really, really like, I feel like that's a little it's own family inside the family.

And then after every production, I always go and I shake their hands individually because we work together as a team.

At first I was like, so nervous, and I was like, oh, I don't really know if I'm gonna do that, but I wanted to branch out and learn new things.

And it's also been so great, like meet so many new people that like, no, like, that's what I want to do.

And so they like, help me in whatever way I want to be helped.

Another great thing is just hearing the stories that these office have to have to say, you know, I was not the biggest reader when I was younger.

And to come to a show about books and hearing the creative processes and, you know, all of the inspirations, I'm a very inspired person of myself.

I find inspiration in a lot of things.

So to hear other people have similar, ways of finding their influences is very special.

But yeah, the stories are great.

I've actually gotten into reading because of this show.

I think that you should trust yourself.

I found just, like, trusting that, human mistakes happen, but to be able to roll with the punches is the most important thing.

And I think that, like, I really have walked out of this semester after working with this class and and doing things that I never thought I'd do, it just completely raised my standards on what I can do and and who I can be.

I really like hearing the authors passion for their books.

And like writing.

I really like hearing those stories and just how passionate they get.

I think my favorite part is being able to enhance my skills, working behind the camera.

I've had prior experience, but I've never been able to work like on a professional set before with like professional gear.

This is just a really good opportunity, and I hate that I waited so long to be a part of it.

Like, this is my last semester and I, my advisor, kept trying to get me to be a part of it, like in previous semesters, semesters.

And I was like, I don't know if I want to do that.

And now that I've been a part of it, I'm like, I wish I had joined it sooner because it really was a good opportunity and I gained a lot of good relationships from it.

I think this is really taken what was what was a seed that was planted in my brain of, hey, TV's cool.

It'd be so much fun to work on it and became it's blossom to a flower of, hey, I really, really, really want to do this.

This is something that, like, I actually have a passion for I it's, it's the roots are deep now.

I think it's helped help me as a person realize, you know what, I've been in this middle ground of what I really want to do once I leave UCB, once I leave college and and helped me be like, hey, I figured it out.

I think TV's where I want to be.

I think TV is going to be the perfect fit for me for for what I want to do.

It's fulfilling.

But at the same time, it's it's it empowers me.

I think that's what that's what the show's really, really taught me.

And I'll take with me.

It's all good.

Everybody.

I'm like fresh friends.

What's up is we'll never know.

We'll see.

We'll still feel like we, Oh, great.

Great job.

If we can all, like, show up like that every single time.

Like we're going to, like, one of my best seasons ever.

I don't know what I'm saying.

So I just make sure today that you all sign your gallery, that you all sign your, put the date at the top of your.

You sign it, make sure you've checked everything off.

Make notes if you need to add something to it, and I'll add it for the next time.

But, like, seriously, y'all rocked y'all.

It's so great.

Yeah.

So, so thank you all so much for showing up like that.

I call the bullpen.

You're in here.

Not.

Yeah.

Oh, it really is like, ask Mallory.

I like.