Guest Blog: Alex, Head Writer!

Huzzah, two posts in one day?!

Our latest Guest Blog comes from someone you'll be hearing a lot from pretty soon...new Head Writer Alex! This is her third year on Bay State. She stood out as one of the best camera people as a freshman, and became 2nd AD during her sophomore year. By the end of sophomore year, she survived the toughest writers' trials I've ever seen, and--a semester later--she's training to be Head Writer.

My phone is ringing, but I'm not picking it up.

This could be for one of two reasons: it's on silent, or I recognize the number and I'm ignoring the call because it's my loan shark.

Wait. What?

Alex, sophomore year, adding her name to a long list of successful baristas!

No, I seem to be confusing Bay State with real life again. This happens a lot, especially since I've become a writer. The problem is that the world that the students of Beacon Hill College inhabit is infinitely more interesting than the real world. And having responsibility for this world is infinitely more interesting than having responsibility for my real life.

Alex and Erin, sophomore year.

There are ups and downs to this responsibility. Somehow it was decided that we would film two scenes from the next script for last Tuesday, a day which we have scheduled already seven scenes. This is where the Bay State work ethic comes into focus. A year ago four scenes was the norm, and now not an eye is batted at the prospect of nine scenes in five hours. Well... maybe a few eyes. Either way, the decision to film two scenes from a script that was submitted to me the previous day had me nervous. Between editing the scenes and discovering my best friend is a serial killer, I had a lot to deal with last last week.

Alex, rockin' out on camera, junior year.

Um... well, that last part may not be true. He wasn't a serial killer, he was a drug dealer. No? Aspiring major-league baseball player? Damnit, I'm never going to get this right.

Best Picture Ever.

Despite the constant blurring of the line between reality and fantasy, we've all come a long way. I joined Bay State my freshman year at the request of my roommates despite not being a Television major, or even a student in the College of Communication. But this community embraced me and I made a strange journey through different aspects of production to end up where I am today. Good timing, as this Spring marks my last semester in this crazy group. It's been calm, it's been insane, I've spent hours on the phone wrangling actors and have lost more than a few hairs on my head from those same actors testing my nerves on set. But, in the end, would I want it any other way? Tomorrow is the last shoot of the two people who got me into this mess, and I owe them so much, because without them I would not know the greatest group of people around. I owe them much, and I and everyone else will miss them so much as they continue their BU journey to Los Angeles. (I know what you're thinking: who replaced Amadeo with someone so... sentimental? Deal with it.)

Writer Alex celebrating victory at the read-through.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some meth to shoot up before I beat up my roommate.

Yeah. That one's right.

Alex, getting the TCB sophomore year for getting all the actors to the first shoot of the semester.

Thanks for blogging, Alex!
Can't wait to read your posts next semester :)
-Jenn