Last fall, Jon O’Sullivan and I assisted producer/director Ted Saad with a series of web videos for Adams Fairacre Farms – a family-owned and operated grocery store in the Hudson Valley that specializes in locally grown food products.
Jon and I shared duties as lighting designers, camera operators, and production assistants. The whole experience was very pleasant and all the staff at Adams were kind and gracious. If you get the opportunity to help on a production that involves food or cooking, do yourself a favor and take the job, even if the pay isn’t outstanding. You will more than likely earn your work in complimentary food.
Below are two videos – one on preparing fall off the bone ribs and the other on local cheeses. We were eating ribs and cheese for a weeks. Watch all the videos at the Adams Fairacre Farms website.

I'm Ryan Rivard, a student filmmaker at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.




