Bella Baughman

January 2021, I stepped into my first quarter of the Media Technology and Film program. It easily became one of my favorite classes because of its ginormous class size of 6 people, hands-on teaching, building connections with people, and creating relationships regardless of differences.

I stepped into the classroom with the mindset of a camera operator as my future career. Although that has since changed and am traveling on a new path, I still have a passion for camera work. Media Technology allowed me the opportunity to work locally with a classmate connection, and Clemson University as a camera operator for sporting events. As the only high school student on the Clemson video crew, I am planning to attend Clemson University and continue to work with the team as I begin my studies as a business major. I am interested in the distribution and logistics field, in which I have built connections with companies in both Anderson and in Columbia, South Carolina.

The production of my film was very shaky, I struggled coming up with ideas and how to pursue them. My dad helped sprout the idea from an old riddle. The riddle goes as,

“A father and son were in a car accident where the father was killed. The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. He needed immediate surgery. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at the little boy and said I can't operate on him, he is my son.

Who is the doctor?”

The film is meant to challenge the obvious, to rewire your mind from an easy solution. I hope I portrayed that well in my film, “Family Medicine.”