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Why I Might Not Use School Kids Anymore in My Next Movie Project - Chikezie Nwariwe vlog
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Jul 11, 2025
I am considering the possibility of not using kids anymore in my next movie project for these reasons #chikezienwariwe #vlog #personalstories
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Have you unexpectedly
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like unexpectedly you just somebody hit
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you hand on your chest like on your
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chest you never expected it. Now it
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happened that
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earlier today when I went out to shoot a
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film with one of my with one of my
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friends. So we were on the process of
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shooting the film. We we thought of
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going to a secondary school to see if we
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can do for some children or some
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individuals. I wouldn't completely call
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them children, but they are still
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children because they are they are still
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minors to see maybe we can see some of
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the minors that will be interested in in
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shooting with us. So the the mistake we
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made was not reaching out to the school
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authorities out there. The children were
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done with their exams. So they were just
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playing around hoping hoping for the
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next 1 hour for them to go home you know
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and the school was very open. children
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were running just see people playing
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around those who goes home and come back
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and stuff like that. So the thing was
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just if you get there you know that
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nothing was really happening in school
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you get. So we we got to meet some of
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them who were fighting and we separated
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the children from fighting you know and
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they saw us as people who came to do
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film. So we they they said they going to
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join us you know. We said okay if that
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is the case uh but let's go to this
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other side of the school and do some
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shooting after which you return to
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school since they not doing anything.
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They not writing exams and stuff like
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that. So we were on the process of me
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directing them on what to do so that we
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can start shooting. They we we're now uh
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about four young men which I believe to
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be the vigilante of the community. Four
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young men on a motorcycle.
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Two were carrying Okay. Two were
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carrying guns. Yes. One was holding a
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machete and the other person appears to
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be the leader. So that one came and was
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uh who are you and what are you doing
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with these children?
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So one of the children started talking
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brother shooting. I told him to stop
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talking. I now had to talk to the person
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who was asking what we doing with the
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children. told them that we are content
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creators and the children were done with
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their exams. So we thought we could make
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use of them maybe just shoot one or two
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slits and they return back to school. So
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before I could know what was happening
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the other one from the other end has
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like on my chest boy hit my chest. I was
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like what's happened? Did I did I commit
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any offense? Cut your knees kneel down.
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You know I knelt down and for a good no
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the other one raised his gun to hit me
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you know then one of them told him to to
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hold on know the argument started
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raising then one of them was like this
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girl among these two boys because they
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were two boys and one girl that we told
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to follow us and ask others to go back
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because a good number of them wanted to
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follow us to see what we were doing
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children who like children who like to
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see where people are shooting film and
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stuff like that. So just told them to go
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back to school while we these two other
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people will stay with us you know. So he
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was telling me that this girl among
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these two boys that I want to sleep with
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her like hey sleep with who? A a minor
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how you know they they were trying to
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come up with a lot of allegations that
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we want to use the children for rituals
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and stuff like that. telling them that
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there is nothing like that. And these
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children we came to their school met
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them fighting then we separated them and
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uh when they noticed that we came to
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shoot a film they decided to join us and
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that was how happened even went ahead to
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ask the children and the children told
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them the same thing. The children told
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them the same thing but they didn't want
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that they just wanted a situation where
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I will follow them to the station and
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stuff like that. So I started imagining
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things a lot of things started going
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through my mind. one if I decide to
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allow this to do what's on their mind
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take us to the police station at least
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this is weekend and they wouldn't listen
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to nobody until the week is until the
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weekend comes to an end at the following
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week Monday and
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another fault again we are having there
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is we didn't inform the school
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authorities before taking the children
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out and we didn't also inform the parent
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of the children before shooting with
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them or trying to shoot with them So I
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called the attention of the person who
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was in charge of the fore personnel that
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came around and I told him that yes I
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understand that this is an error from my
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end okay and we are really sorry. So
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what can we do to salvage the situation
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then lot of talks with climate and so on
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and so forth. I had to build myself and
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my friends with 50K like 50k.
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This is just a personal experience. I I
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just decided to make this video to
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remind myself of one thing that as I
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grow in this life, this is part of the
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things that I have experienced. One of
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the things that has added up as one of
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the setbacks. I don't have money. I
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don't have money. You can take a look at
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where I live. This is this is my house.
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This is where I stay.
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So this alone should tell you
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my my capacity. So does the money little
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money that I'm making from video editing
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that I use in paying these people off so
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that because I know that if the matter
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goes to police I understand our
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country's police and how they operate.
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So what comes was the likeliness that my
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family will be involved and lots of
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money being paid and stuff like that is
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very much is high. So I understood all
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these things and uh I just decided to
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ensure that everything ends there. Yeah.
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Everything ends there and to the glory
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of God everything ended that way. I went
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back home feeling discouraged but at the
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time I just told myself that it's
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pointless feeling discouraged at least
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this is one of the setbacks
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that one is aspiring to become something
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better in future but this is one of the
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things that or let's call it the
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stumbling block which of course by the
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grace of God I have overcome it. We are
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still pushing forward and hoping that by
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tomorrow we're going to succeed. Of
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course, you are free to condemn me for
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trying to shoot with these children
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without uh notifying their parents or
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without notifying the authorities. I
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took that I took that blame. Okay. Of
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course, it's one of the things I was
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supposed to do before going out to shoot
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with them. So, I've learned better in my
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next shooting. Definitely I will if I
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must involve children or if a minor must
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be involved in my shooting the parents
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has to be aware and they have to give
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their full consent so that they will
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know that their daughter or their son is
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shooting with me and for now no money is
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coming out. Okay. But I'm hoping that as
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time goes on any artist that I get
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involved in my shooting will be paid.
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So that is it ladies and gentlemen. That
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was my experience. the heat that young
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man gave me on my chest
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kai to something else after that hit I
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even got a slap you know so
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it's well I just need I don't need to
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fight them I don't need to start raising
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voices because one they on their right
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and I did the wrong thing assuming maybe
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they were not in their school hours even
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though they were not in school in their
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school hours definitely questions like
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did you inform their parents and stuff
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like that would still come up and I
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wouldn't have nothing to cover up you
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know so I decided not to take it further
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okay not to fake it further but I
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understand that I was at fault and uh
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next time I think I will do better I'll
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do better in terms of reaching out to
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parents or the children at least to know
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if they have given their consent for
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their children to to at least shoot a
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film with me and also if it is a school
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definitely the school environment the
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school authority will We will be duly
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informed. If they give the information,
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we shoot. If they don't give the
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permission, we go. So, ladies and
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gentlemen, please subscribe to this
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channel if you don't, and I'll be seeing
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us in our next video. Do it to take care
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of yourselves.
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