I stood up for myself.
As expect, my "awesome" teacher in studio photography, started out class bashing our work last week, quite harshly, to the point where one of my more out spoken students asked him incredulously "How can you say that everyone in the class didn't study!?" Anyway, so I raised my hand once, but then he moved on and I put my hand back down.
Then he came back to us "Ignoring the directions so we could be creative" and I could not let that comment slide. How in the world could the ENTIRE class NOT READ the DIRECTIONS!?!
Me: I know for me, I saw what you did in class and took those visual and applied them to your directions and my assignment.
Mr. G: But I gave you written directions
Me: I know but for me personally I took what you did in class and added it too what you wrote, thinking they were one and the same. I read the assignment and then used the visuals from our last class to set up.
Mr G: *crickets* Ok...........well the written directions take prevalence
Me: So could you give us some kind of disclaimer so we know what you want us to do and what you don't want us to do?
Mr G: Well 99.9% of what I do I want you to do. Cause I didn't change up much when I was doing it
Me: But you did make some adjustments and we just did what we saw you do
Mr. G: Ok.....ok.......ok.... (Yes he pauses about 30 seconds between paragraphs haha)
And class went on. The rest of class (though as incredibly boring as always) was better and he felt a little more approachable! We'll see how that plays out through out the rest of the semester, but I think I may request an advisor change, cause I'd really prefer different teachers if possible next semester.
