Christmas Play tonight.
Has anybody been told they can't take cameras or cam-corders?
We have and i think it is a disgrace.
2007-12-18 03:00:42 · 20 answers · asked by Busy Bee 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I would if i could draw Proper G,but i can't even draw the curtains wothout effort.
2007-12-18 03:07:51 · update #1
ERM Dizzydoll, Are you for real..Me not old enough to have children? why would i be going to my SON'S play then? You haven't got a clue have you? well go speak your bile elswhere,i don't want it on my Question.
2007-12-18 07:11:58 · update #2
Take a sketchpad.
2007-12-18 03:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Proper Gander 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Just come back from watching my younger sisters Christmas play with my mum. There was a letter on the seat saying no cameras or video recordings allowed. You may take pictures of your own child after the play has finished. you used to be able to but its all to do with pervs and paedophiles. Its just for safety and protection to all vulnerable children.
So i wouldn't take one. Its not worth taking pics after the play has finished is it? Because you want pics of your children during the play. Its been a few years now since they stopped allowing cameras.
2007-12-18 03:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by Lauren 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Common sense prevails in some places. I was able to take pictures at my grandson's nativity play at nursery, though they wanted registration for those using video cameras.
The 'compromise' of allowing parents to buy photographs from an 'official' photographer is absurd. What exactly can parents photograph that the 'official' photographer couldn't?
Edit note:
Whilst there may be a concern about parents not giving permission for their children to be photographed, there's no legal issue here. Neither, in particular, is there a copyright concern. Copyright is automatically vested in the photographer. The only consideration might be, say, the design of sets, but even here, it is perfectly legal to photograph something that itself may be subject to copyright if that thing is not the main subject of the photograph, but incidental to it. There are a lot of people, and that includes schools and the like, who 'think' they know the law concerning photography, and who think that because they think something ought to be illegal, it is illegal. Unless one is engaged in obscene photography involving children, which is a specific criminal offence, or engaged in photography in pursuit of some criminal offence, then photography is not a matter of criminal law whatsoever. I have had people rushing at me, arms flailing, telling me it is 'illegal to photograph a child' whilst in the act of photographing my own son. When ignorance is allied to sheer paranoia, the outlook for civil liberty and normality in daily life is bleak.
2007-12-18 03:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by kinning_park 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a load of nonsense. Speak to the governors.
What exactly does this prove? That some possible paedophile is going to get a thrill out of watching Joseph and Mary? They coudl just watch tv instead.
This is one of those ideas that has absolutely no reason behind it.
2007-12-18 04:28:37 · answer #4 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've still got a video of me in a Christmas play when I was 6 - however it was filmed in 1992 before all this PC madness started.
2007-12-18 04:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by Rodriguez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All they need to do is ask parent's permission.
I'd make a complaint if I were you, suggesting they sort out a consent form as this is what most schools do, including ours.
It might be too late for this year, but you might get to film the next one.
2007-12-18 04:45:58 · answer #6 · answered by bec 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is really common.
Sometimes there is a copyright concern.
Of course, flashes and people taking pictures could be distracting, and you don't want attention drawn away from the kids.
Also, there may be concerns about taking pictures of kids whose parents haven't given you permission to photograph them.
2007-12-18 03:38:58 · answer #7 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sadly with everything going on and PC brigade on the war path it is common for cameras etc to be banned from kids performances. It is tragic really.
Dont worry im sure the school will have someone recording it and then you can but it for a lovely extortionate price like ours used to!
2007-12-18 03:05:12 · answer #8 · answered by Mossy Jan 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. The head of my son's school sent a letter out to all parents asking if they minded their children being photographed.
After they got all the forms back the percentage of parents said they didn't mind so the head allowed it.
I wouldn't be happy if I couldn't film my children. Their only young once and it's lovely to look back on.
I do understand parents concerns though.
2007-12-18 03:07:09 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Monkey ! 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
When my kids were at junior school this happened. Then at the end of the performance the school would sell photos they had taken during rehearsals at extortionate prices.
2007-12-18 04:58:09 · answer #10 · answered by Mimkat hate the new Yahoo Answers so has retired. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We were told that with the previous head, who said it was a play for God, not cameras. ( Yes he really did say that )
Now the new head allows it as long as we don't post them on web sites.
2007-12-18 03:59:28 · answer #11 · answered by !Lady Stormy! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋