To remind you that no photography includes you?

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We went to our daughter’s graduation ceremony yesterday. She was getting her PhD from Oxford. The ceremony is a solemn/traditional one. At the beginning of the ceremony, they said no phones please and no filming or photography. There was a live video being recorded that you can obtain online. It also said this in the degree ceremony handbook.

Why is then, that some people think this rule does not apply to them? A woman in front of us stood up numerous times to video parts of her child’s graduation. Another chap was taking pictures, texting, and had his phone go off loudly.

When dd was up front for her bit in the ceremony, the woman in front was on her phone again. The screen was distracting from being able to focus on the degree ceremony.

Interesting. It's only 3 years since my daughter daughter graduated from Oxford. We were able to take pictures and videos during the ceremony (which we did). The seating is so steeply banked in the Sheldonian that there was no need to stand up and get in anyone else's way and I don't remember anyone doing that.

It seems unlikely that parent/guest behaviour has become so much worse in 3 years, but possible I suppose.

There were no official photographers around at the Sheldonian that we noticed. The official photos were taken at the college.