During summer 2024, I worked as a videographer and adventure guide at Wildman Adventure Resort. Following my time at Wildman, I battled physical and mental health problems. Both of which were a direct result of my time at Wildman. I wanted to make a piece that exposed the honest parts of the job and would bring comfort to I and others, who wished we had known things going into it.

As it turned out, I wasn’t be able to make the exposé I had originally intended. This was for a few reasons with the first being that I didn’t have the footage to support it. Things would unfold in real time and I wouldn’t have my camera on me to record. Or other times I was the one involved and I wasn’t going to hit record during a confrontation. Not only is that incredibly unnatural but the person in question would likely stop engaging once they knew they were being recorded. And that would defeat the purpose. The second, even had I had more footage, publishing such footage comes with it’s own legal risks.

In short, I wasn’t able to capture the harder times that made up a decent part of the experience. This was due to both practical and legal reasons. Even so, I wanted to make something that could mark this time in my life. Something to explain what I was even doing out there. I think this piece still offers a look behind the curtain, though maybe not as much as I would’ve liked. Perhaps this was for the best, as the tone is much more positive this way. That said, I'm proud of what I could capture and the work that went behind this project.