Hi, I am a first year student at uni, going for a minor in film. This was my first film project with a partner and I was honestly excited to maybe make a friend from this. 

Firstly, we wrote the script together, but a lot of my inputs weren’t taken. I didn’t mind because I thought that her ideas were better and she was technically the director as assigned by the professor. Because I wasn’t the director, I tried to contribute in other ways, only to be ignored. I asked her if I could work the cameras or take a lead role in the film, both of which were denied as she had already casted her friends for those without telling me. Our professor allowed her to cast an upperclassmen to do most of the filming. We didn’t need any special mics for the project so I was really all out of jobs besides props and doing the storyboards.

I did the storyboards well, and I already had some props prepared. We needed some wine bottles + glasses and other basic party things. I bought the party things, and my mom owns some fancy wine glasses and drinks a lot of wine so I was all set.

Yesterday my partner texts me saying that I don’t need to bring in the props. I thought she meant for today, as the scenes we were shooting didn’t require props.

I come in and she tells me that the props are all handled as another one of her friends got them for her. I honestly felt really sad and frustrated, I got those props for the film and wanted badly to contribute, as I was her partner. I also felt lonely because I don’t have any friends in this school and she would constantly excitedly babble with her friends while I would try to contribute things to the conversation, but it was clear that this was an established friend group and I wasn’t very welcome.

I told her that I was upset because I had gotten the props already, and that I didn’t have anything to do in this project. Her reaction was pretty flippant, assigning me the job of checking the time, as one of her actresses had to go to her job in an hour or so.

I felt really hurt, This is supposed to be a partnership. AITA for being hurt by this?