The crowd is turned to watch the next graduate (perhaps someone more popular than Barry) walk out on the stage from the opposite end - typicle commencement stuff. I agree that it looks odd, but I do think that Occam's Razor applies here.
Occam’s Photoshop Razor?
look at the girl right behind his hand, all the rest of the crowd has a yellow/red-light hue and she is all washed out blonde hair bright white dress...=wrong!
his hand is a lobster claw
the background is too flat, like a projection
remember, even ONE photoshopped change = 100% fake