Week 19- Shooting and Whining and Some Cooperation

Week 18, the Wednesday before spring break, I was unable to attend FRiK, but Stacey tells me the guys were not cooperating with the whole film study thing. She'd tell them to observe something, say, camera angles, and they would whine that they'd never heard of such things, and she'd explain but they'd whine so loudly no one could hear, and then they'd whine some more about actually having to do work.

That was a key complaint this time as well. Weeks ago, we drafted a quick ad, and this week we planned to shoot it, which we did... sort of. There were several who either were cooperative or simply not uncooperative who willingly made props and volunteered to man the camera and act, but others who spent the whole time going, "why do you have to be the hard-ass group?" They pointed out that many clubs were do-nothing clubs that simply put down hours for nothing at all, so why should we actually do filmmaking? Because we're honest, we replied, which only engendered more complaining. In the end, what should have been a quick, 20 minute shoot took the whole period because they simply wouldn't leave us along long enough to get anything done with the others who were actually cooperative or at least were not uncooperative. And when we shot, they'd be talking in the background, so we may have to scrap audio and make it a silent film...