My Awesome Experience on Criminal Minds!

Being on the tv show "Criminal Minds" was really cool and exciting. We had to drive to this remote ranch somewhere in the desert-like hills of California. It was being filmed at some movie ranch that war movies and movies like "Iron-Man" were usually filmed at. I was pretty familiar with the place because I had been on other jobs there. Such as "Man-Down" and "1915" which were along the lines of army movies. The scene was basically where me and a bunch of other people were living in the slums of India. The set looked really cool and it felt like I was actually in the slums of India (which isn't exactly a great place to live). When we arrived at the set they dressed up my sister and I in these dirty rags and put fake dirt all over us. It looked really cool but that fake dirt stuff was so hard to wash off. It stayed on me for like a two weeks. As soon as we were placed in our positions, the PAs, producers, and directors were drilling us on how when the drone that was carrying the camera took off we were supposed to look away and not go under or near the area where it was. When they told us this and how they were using the drone to film the scene, I was amazed. The drone was pretty big and was carrying this big bulky camera into the sky. It was able to fly so high and it got up there pretty fast. Anyway, the scene I was in was basically where this man that was bleeding like crazy woke up in the slums of India injured really bad. He then walks toward a group of people (which I am in) and asks for help. But the group of people just stare at him then he collapses and dies right in front of us. It was an intense scene and the actor playing the injured person did an amazing job. The blood on him looked really realistic too. The next scene I did was where I was playing cricket with two kids in an alleyway. But then some bomb or something is about to go off so then my "parents" rushed us out before we got hurt. It was pretty fun playing Cricket and the director or producer showed us how to play so that made the experience even cooler. But when we left the set and came back we noticed that it was really cloudy outside but it didn't seem to be raining. Then only seconds later we saw lightning! They directors and producers had to break set and reschedule it for the next day. We kept seeing it coming closer so everyone gathered under the same shed roof out side and watched the lightning come closer and closer. It was really cool seeing lightning so up close and seeing it so many time. It made the situation even funnier when my sister was freaking out for nothing. But one of the producers had rented an ices-custard-type-thing that was really good and delicious. So while everyone was freaking out my mom and I were just eating while staring at them lighting. Overall it was really cool being on this set and I hope I get to do something like this again.