Tuesday 24th October 2012
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As we had thought about what it was we wanted to do with our time in oxford in advance of being here, we started by heading towards the first location we intended to shoot, Cowley Road. This took longer than anticipated as we stopped on more than one occasion to shoot footage of places we came across on the way to the location. although this did interrupt our schedule, meaning we didn't get to final destination we had planned to go to, it also did provide us with interesting, useful footage we hadn't intended on shooting.
We walked down one of the streets in inner oxford and decided to shoot a small amount of footage, giving us some establishing shots of our area, which will have a brilliant contrast to some of the grittier locations in our previous shoots.
Another stop along the way to Cowley Road was an old-fashioned style sweet shop that caught our eye. Opting again to stop and shoot some footage here as we felt the inside of the store would have a great effect and also provided a vast array of colour and interesting lighting for us to shoot, allowing us to experiment with white balance/shutter speed etc. The only problem with shooting was the fact to go inside the store we would of course need permission from the store owner/manager. Thankfully we had release forms with us that could be signed. (When we first arrived, it was soon relies that the release forms that were ready in advance had been forgotten, however after a short discussion on how to handle the problem, we found that there was a pubic library very close by and so we could easily go and get some new copies printed, without wasting too much of out time).So we headed into the shop and approached one of the staff members, explaining our project and what we would like to shoot inside the shop. After having gained permission and had the release form signed, we began setting up some equipment, the shop was fairly small so we had to be careful of where were placing our equipment so as not to damage anything. We were kindly asked not to film any of the customers that came int the store, which we were happy to oblige to, the shop was fairly quiet anyway which made the task slightly easier.
This part of the shoot was particularly enjoyable as it was something and somewhere different for us to shoot, as i said before, we had a different kind of lighting to work with etc. Another thing that i had noticed about this shop was how perfectly it was laid out for filming in, the shelves we all stacked in almost perfect symmetry, which made it a pleasure to film in. We got some lovely shots, in particular, close ups of the brightly coloured packaging.
We eventually made it to Cowley Road after multiple stops and shot a small amount of footage in 'grittier' street and got some lovely shots of a large wall of graffiti, providing brilliant contrast to the earlier footage of the day.
After this we headed straight for the record store that we had intended to go to in the first place, on coming across it, we again had to seek permission to film inside the shop, which was given almost immediately, so after a short explanation of what we were here to do the manager signed the release form and we began setting up. We also took this opportunity to ask the manager if would like to take part in a short interview which gave us chance to set up and make use of the boom mic. (more detail on this to come in later post).
From here, we went on to find The Turf Tavern, a small famous pub situation off an alleyway in the heart of Oxford, and again got permission from a member of staff to film there and proceeded to get some beautiful shots of the very picturesque location.
Overall, the day turned out to be fairly successful, despite going slightly off schedule and not making it to Jericho (which would have been our final location of the day), the footage we did achieve turned out well, with limited issues thanks to some careful planning in advance of setting out.
Oxford 1 from Sammie Masters-Hopkins on Vimeo.
The footage above was the first piece of footage we shot during our time in Oxford. This panning, offers us something of an establishing shot of one of the main high streets in Oxford. we were also also able to capture some nice colour from the painted buildings in this shot.
As you can see, the whole image is in focus, suggesting a small aperture, an f/22. This meant that little light was getting into the camera, so we had to alter other settings in order to counteract this problem, otherwise our footage would have ended up under-exposed. Due to the fact that there was a lot of movement in our shot, we did want to be slowing down the shutter speed to let in more light, this would have caused a lot of blurring, so instead it was the ISO that had to of up slightly, thankfully the natural daylight want the image began fairly bright so we didn't need to up the ISO to the point where we had a lot of grain in the image.
Permission Forms
Here is scans (hard copies are also available) of the permission forms we had to get signed in order to film in some of the locations we chose during our shoot in Oxford. These were filled out in order to gain permission to film in the sweet shop and in the record store.
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