Friday, May 25, 2012

Group Work

Supervising a film group after school today, I sat out of the way working on some grading and communication.

The two boys fiddled with the camera, pointing it outside the window, making sure the shot was right.  They swung their arms back and forth, fixed the gloves they were wearing for their evidence scene, and talked.  One, humming as he erased the board, asked me if I knew Frank Sinatra's song L.O.V.E.  His dad listens to it.  I found it on my computer and played it; we talked about swing dancing and showed some of the swing steps we knew.

Exasperated, one of them finally said, "Where are they?"

All this time they had been waiting on the girls to change their clothes for the next shot.

He walked into the hallway.  "Hey!  Are you guys almost ready?" he shouted at the bathroom door.  No answer.  "Hey!  Girls!  Come on!"  No answer.  "Hey!  Are you guys ready yet?"

"No!" came the decided answer. "We still have to do my hair!"

He turned around, tightening his lips, left only to wait in annoyed tension.

I have to give it to them, though. Two girls, two boys--each gender is living up to it's stereotype and completely annoying the other sex, but they're making it work.  Even if the girls spend 20 minutes in the bathroom prepping for the next scene filmed from two stories up.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some things are universal. Girls need TIME!