Let the games - er - the concerts, dances, shows, plays and all that jazz begin!

CLIENT
Interlochen Center for the Arts
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema, Julie Bacon, Greg Johnson, Theo Syslo
EDITOR
Tim Broekema

In 6-weeks the high school theatre division at Interlochen handles audition, staging, production, building the sets and 5 performances. It is intense and frankly, I am not sure how it actually happens. But I was humbled to be able to "embed" with this group for the entire 6-week summer class and produce this narrative. I am proud of these kids.

CLIENT
Interlochen Center for the Arts
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY/CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema
EDITOR
Tim Broekema

My assignment was to show the education and camp experience for high school kids at Interlochen, and do it in one week. As my students always say, "If I only had more time …" but I did not. The running footage courtesy of one beat-up old golf cart, Theo getting up at 5 am to drive me in that cart, an ikan gimble and my 50-year-old body letting me do things I could do when I was 25. Not sure how that has happened, guess just lucky as I get older.

CLIENT
Interlochen Center for the Arts
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY/CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema
EDITOR
Tim Broekema

Every summer Interlochen Presents brings in well-known performers, some of them come, perform and leave, while others engage with the student campers. OKGo first met 30 years ago at Interlochen and they wanted to travel down memory lane. But access is not always an easy thing, even for a situation like this but as the day progressed walls came down, and we found ourselves with some great visual lines of access for the concert as well as audio feeds. The result was an emotional homecoming for the band. And yes, that is my youngest on the stage performing a dance with them. I had nothing to do with that, honest. She made it happen thru a series of emails.

Special thanks to second camera b operators Theo Syslo and Julie Bacon, they are A operators in my book! It took us about three weeks to get the confetti out of our equipment.

CLIENT
Interlochen Center for the Arts
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema, Julie Bacon, Theo Syslo
EDITOR
Tim Broekema

I was asked to produce a piece for Interlochen that explained the Vlade Concert Master Series. A Concert Master from an acclaimed national orchestra would spend 5 days with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and mentor them, one would come each week. Martin Chalifour, Christopher Rountree, Dennis Kim, JoAnn Faletta and the kids of WYSO were so generous with their time. They gave me what I needed and hopefully in return I gave them what they needed. If you watch the piece, you will get a chuckle out of "Soviet Sounding," I promise.

CLIENT
Interlochen Center for the Arts
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY/CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tim Broekema
EDITOR
Tim Broekema