And.. Action

Today was interesting because there was a cameraman following around some guys throughout campus. They seemed to be everywhere that I was going, but further away from me. It was interesting because he was wearing a harness for the camera to steady it with control arms that came out and folded out. He looked robotic but also like he knew what he was doing. People would crowd around and watch and try to avoid being in the shot, some in a hurry, some just observing. Audio must not have been an issue because he kept talking to people and replied to questions that they asked him. Everyone seemed to be just as bewildered as I was and in no time, they had to stop filming so that they could do a Q and A. As I watched from afar, everyone spoke loud enough so that I could hear what they were saying.
They spoke mostly about the cameraman's career and college education. The poor actors that were with him were spooked by the crowd and insisted that they had to go. The ones forming a crowd were not the ones that I would expect to be so interested in the situation. Many of them seemed to be just random passerby's but the bulk of the group was actually staff. Of the about twenty or so people who stopped and asked him about what he was doing were Sodexo employees and professors it looked like. Apparently, he was an undergrad student that was trying to get his certification in camera works and needed to practice using his mechanism.
But the most bizarre and interesting thing was the people that either tried to make it in the shot or avoid being in the shot by turning around or walking around the scene altogether. Some people were annoyed by the camera and did not move at all or stormed off in the other direction.