I want some general opinions on some things that have been happening in a class of mine >< If you’re one of those people who shits their pants and cries over any type of personal thread, leave now, plz.
In my Film&Video class, I have been placed in a group with 4 other students. 3 weeks ago, we were told to make a movie out of a script that had been written by another student in our class. On the first day we received the scripts to start planning, our appointed director had been absent on that day for whatever reason.
So the other 3 people and I made heavy changes to the ideas, and starting brainstorming and whatnot. The next day, our director is present and changes everything. 
Mistake number 1.
As a group, we were very disorganized. I tried to get people on track when the topic turned obscene, or stupid, because approx three weeks is hardly enough time to plan for a movie, and let’s face it, we are total amateurs. So it took us a lot longer to plan everything out because of that, and the fact that nobody would stay focused, especially, our director. I don’t mean to suck anyone’s ass, because some of the time, I was joining in on the sillyness, but I made an effort to get people on track.
Well, this caught up with us, and also having a shitty director for our group put us in the shitter. He filled the movie with so much innuendo, that we had to re-write it. Actually, he did it by himself, because the rest of us weren’t allowed to do so, and all of our contributions were taken out, by this guy. The first script he came up with had oral sex references, derogatory religious and racial comments/images, and was filled with swearing. He didn’t listen to me every time I told him this, and when I said someone might get offended at the thought of Jesus Christ in a wheelbarrow (don’t ask), he gave me this look like I had just sat in his lap and peed on him or something.
So our director was totally out of his mind, and treated his role like the real deal. He folded his head in his hands, scrubbed his face, closed his eyes, or sighed loudly whenever something bothered him or when the rest of us had the gall to suggest an idea that clashed with his. He did this a lot. When our teacher told us that we had to make permission forms for the actors in ours movies to be signed by parents, he huffed and puffed and asked the class if anyone had a cigarette because of his nerves. It was embarrassing to say the least. meanwhile, 3 out of the 4 of us working underneath him, complain, with me protesting against his leadership the most.
We have since nearly failed a group paper relating to the movie altogether, and lost major points because our revised movie script was handing in a week late. We couldn’t proceed with set design or audio planning because he alone wrote the script and we didn’t know what was in it, at the time. Thus, we are delayed once more.
He has since not apologized, but has said that he will step back and let us do more, which I stupidly believed. I alone continued to protest (and yes, “tattle”) to the teacher about his authority because he is running us into the ground. I volunteered to be a back up camera operator, but have not been given a camera. I volunteered to be the editor, but I was told no, someone else in our group was doing it, but I argued, since our editor is a slacker and doesn’t want to do it. So I was told, “Alright, but I’ll be keeping a close eye on you. I don’t want any barbie crap in this movie” which TOTALLY set me off inside. I decided then to quit the group, because our project was headed downhill with the rest of the group to proud or scared to speak out against our director. We were filming yesterday (I watched) and the average takes on scenes that were shot was…1. Yes, 1. No practicing or anything. If things were horribly done, they took…2 shots. At the most, 3. Each being about 5-7 seconds long, in poor lighting, and surrounding areas. Every time I spoke up that “oh you should speak louder and pronounce your words more carefully” or “The camera is quite shaky, you should re-do that”, I was ignored. After class, yesterday, I told my teacher I was done with these people, and she agreed to let me do my own independent project.
Which is what I did today. No one bothered me.
Earlier this evening, I was messaged by the other girl in my group who made small talk (it was quite obvious what she wanted) and then asked why I “quit” our group. I said it was because no one wanted me to do anything, and then bitched at me when I wasn’t doing anything. yesterday I was told I had to act in the movie (I HATE acting, and cameras in general) and our director said “You’re going to have to do it. You’ll make or break this movie. So what’s it going to be?” Like I had a choice. I agreed yesterday, but not today. And she said, omg they’ll have to find another actor, someone else to do the audio and…nothing else. Because those were the only tasks appointed to me. 2 lines, and sound effects. Now she is telling me that I gave up and ran, and left ALL of my jobs to her. I let everyone down. The project (rough edit) is due tomorrow and our director is trying soooo hard to make up for our losses. Since when, yesterday, when I witnessed a shitty sequence of filming? Apparently I broke the group and took the easy way out, leaving everyone else to fail but…if today was the only class I didn’t work with them and it’s due tomorrow then…that only leaves me with 1 class that I didn’t work with them in total.
Someone tell me if this seems wrong to you, or not. Or if I really did take the easy way out. I wont mind if someone argues in favour of one or the other because I’m honestly wondering and needed to tell someone. I have just been told that I showed everyone else what kind of person I am in real life, running away when people need me the most when the problem was…nobody in the group trusted me enough to do anything. I was also just told that if my absence has helped fail this group, then this girl who accused me of such, might fail this class, which would in turn take away her chances of graduating, this year 
It’s pathetic really, all of the excuses and defence mechanisms that have just occured here, and since I’m starting to become bothered by what may happen when I show my face in class tomorrow, I’d like a stranger’s point of view.
What do you think? Too extreme? Not extreme? Right or wrong thing to do? I apologize for being so long winded, but you have to know all of the gory details to understand it. Bah.
edit: I forgot to mention, NO ONE confronted me during classtime. I was working in the library, and when they heard of my decision to work on my own, no one came looking for me. The comments just started coming at me on MSN, which is a bit cowardly in my opinion -_-;;
