{"id":11927,"date":"2018-04-03T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/dodge\/2018\/04\/03\/alumni-spotlight-derek-hedwig-05\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:34:42","slug":"alumni-spotlight-derek-hedwig-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2018\/04\/03\/alumni-spotlight-derek-hedwig-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight: Derek Helwig &#039;05"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Featured Image: Filming in Peruvian Andes for YouTube Red series, &#8220;Ultimate Expedition&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Four years ago we caught up with Derek Helwig (BFA\/FP &#8217;05) and his <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2014\/02\/09\/alumni-spotlight-derek-helwig\/\">experiences since graduating<\/a>. Now we have the pleasure of welcoming him to the Chapman family as a professor for the newly created course, <strong>DOC 116, Introduction to Television Production: Location<\/strong>. Derek has vast experience and knowledge on shooting on location having worked for 12 seasons with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0285335\/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\">The Amazing Race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11931\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-2.jpg\" alt=\"Derek 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filming pilot in Louisville, KY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During his tenure with The Amazing Race, from 2006 to 2013, he worked as a PA, research producer, and finally a field producer. It wasn\u2019t a simple start to the show, as he would go on to tell his students, he needed to get creative with having his resume seen by the production manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew that I wanted to combine my love for travel from studying abroad with my film degree. My favorite show at the time was amazing race. At the time you had to fax your resume in. After faxing it so many times I got discouraged. I decided I needed to take the bull by the horns and I dressed up like UPS delivery guy, brown shorts and brown shirt. I didn\u2019t have a UPS logo on it but I looked the part. Made a clip board that had fake signatures on it. I had a manila envelope that said \u2018Attn: Production Manager\u2019. And then I took it in and had them write the name of the production manager. That way I could follow up and make sure they got it. Which probably seemed pretty suspicious at the time but I got the name and that\u2019s what I needed. The next day I called in and made sure the production manager had my resume and then within a week I had an interview,\u201d says Derek.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11929\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11929\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-3.jpg\" alt=\"Derek 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-3.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2018\/04\/Derek-Helwig-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filming Amazing Race in Botswana with the Sans people (aka Bushmen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Derek\u2019s passion for teaching has been with him as early as his time with The Amazing Race. \u201cEven on Amazing Race, my boss would always put me with the new fixers in the countries we were going to. We kept a pretty tight group of people we could rely on. I would get the new people. I would train them in our style. It was always a teaching element. I felt this call to come back and train,\u201d says Derek. He admitted that, \u201cthere are people who are like deer in headlights when they get on set.\u201d Derek was put into the role to help remedy this situation and he loved it. \u00a0\u201cSeeing students that get inspired is very fulfilling. To see them grow,\u201d says Derek.<\/p>\n<p>If there is anyone to help teach students about filming on location, it\u2019s Derek. He has only shot in a studio twice in his professional career and has been around the world multiple times while working. \u201cI love going out to locations,\u201d says Derek. He found that there was a sense of fulfillment in making someone\u2019s day. However, \u201cit wasn\u2019t just making someone\u2019s day but sharing their stories. At the end of the day that\u2019s what we all do, we\u2019re storytellers.\u201d Most people may think that their story isn\u2019t worth telling but Derek believes that they are and that there is a way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2347,"featured_media":11928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,5,451,395],"tags":[39,384,186,153],"class_list":["post-11927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-spotlight","category-beyond-dodge","category-broadcast-journalism-and-documentary","category-faculty-spotlight","tag-alumni-2","tag-alumni-spotlight","tag-faculty","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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