Some of us follow the blogs and Facebook postings of fellow crew members. One Facebook page in particular, My Mom bought me a RED camera so now I'm a DP, is amusingly snarky. He recently posted the following picture and status update:
"Lame PA told me not take pics of their stupid movie set in Rhode Island. Some show called "Burden of Proof." I asked if Timmy Rubensteiner was the DP. Then said, "of course not, jackass cause that's me! Your movie sucks, I'm Audi 4k bitches!"
Okay, while we laughed at this, it brings up a common annoyance among Set PAs: what do you do if people are trying to take pictures and you're supposed to stop them?
Answer? Nothing.
Just because you signed a confidentiality agreement with your start paperwork, and just because it says "No photographs on set" on the call sheet, doesn't give you legal footing to stop others from taking pictures... Unless they're paparazzi, in which case go nuts and hit them with a C-stand. Getting arrested for that would be so worth it.
For the sake of keeping your job, however, you probably should ask the person with the camera to stop photographing... repeatedly. That way, you at least tried to do your job. If they don't there's really nothing you can do about it.
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