Assignment 4

A story that happened to me. When I was in Los Angeles this summer doing a computer camp on the UCLA Campus, as we were leaving the lab, a lady with a cameraman came running towards us. She asked the students if they would like to be in a quick movie. The students were like yes, yes!!! I said no - this is a camp and we are going to dinner. She said that it wouldn’t take long and they wouldn’t shoot the students’ heads and that if they would write down their name and address, they would mail home the release form. I said to them that if you are shooting the film now, that doesn’t make any sense. At this point I was getting a little upset and called another staff member. The lady told me it was only for a learning project, and I told her that I was in charge of this group of camp students and the parents didn't sign up for their children to be in any type of movie or film. By the way, at this camp we had a lot of high profile children because of their parent’s fame. As we were waiting for the other staff member to come, this lady totally ignored me and started telling the students what to do and said to the cameraman to "try not to" get the students’ faces. So then I really had to put my foot down and say again that we were not doing this and that she needed to leave us alone. She then took the low road and as she left told my students that she was just trying to make a movie and have a little fun and that I was being a "party pooper". I didn't say anything back because it wasn't worth it.