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Preparing for Alley Shoot

what things? He brought one shoot. Who have you brought along? Items we can use outside shoe that I picked up from the beach where I live. Something else. Oh, also a wheel to a stroller. But the stroller and you and I have a couple of glass floats. Fishing floats. Okay, right. So what you think in terms of shots? I don't have any ideas. You have a little I have sort of a video with the glass float right with the model. What is a glass float? It's ah, like used on a fishing net. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Rights of people online, then we've got a glass float. We've got a wheel off a stroller and we've got What else do you say? Sorry. A shoe on a flip flop co from a journal? Yes, but look, outsider, you know, whatever. Yeah. Okay. How was that? How will it look? Cool. I'm sorry. Maybe Like like it was in the alley. Abandoned. Is it going to Charlotte Closed? What? That is going to shot are closed. Um, open or closed? Yeah. Um I don't know is really good minutes.

If it's open Is there anything written on the page? There is some stuff written. Is there any blank page agree? Could write new stuff. Yeah. What new stuff might you? Right? Maybe about how much fun I'm having today. Now, would that work? No. No. Why would it not work? Um, what would what you see in my head now? I'm looking at you. Open journal. Cracks in pavement underneath. Maybe if in yet. Maybe black and white. Lost item. Maybe. Maybe there's somebody walking off in the distance on they dropped. It may be the reason. So, what's written on it? I could write something. What story? We tell him something about, like, losing something sort of love story or being lost. Or you could do because we've got we've got the model to work with as well. She's got the nice flowing dress. Yeah, so, yeah, we could have her right in it. We could Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is what I want to start doing it. The banks ideas around before we haven't been out there on the other props around the corner. We could look at the start bouncing ideas around four could shoot and saying for people online. You got some ideas we've got? Probably if we ranked all the alleys in the world in terms of interesting. This ours is not great. But give us some ideas for what you think we could do. So you heard. We've got the stroller wheel. We've got the efficient float. We've got a shoe journal which could be open or closed, which we could write in on my flip flop. We've also got each other, and we've got the model house abroad, A ceramic sculpture from Oaxaca, Mexico, as well, which is a religious culture. How? Well, because it it is a formal component. But we're putting, you know, just just juxtaposed against the gritty space behind it. Potentially. Isn't that kind of that kind of context as well? Yes. Have you got it? Toe, hand, love with me way show It's people. Yeah, yeah, All right. We're looking and we're looking in a little while It okay? I have ah, old model car. Bel Air. Incredible. And I wanted to do something with scale. Yeah, Yeah. What color is it? Powder blue. Okay, then. White. Yep. It's scratched on Rusty off. Christine. No, it's clean. Okay, right? Yeah, We need to think about what story we're gonna tell with that woman. Is it just gonna be a shot of the time? And, Allie, are you going to try and get really low and what kind? Yeah. Okay. Excellent. I've got an older camera. I'd say maybe from the fifties Kodak camera with a larger bulb on it. It's still unfairly pristine condition. I didn't have any preconceived ideas as to how you might use it. Just it's an interesting subject. Might be something we can do with the model. And like the a little meta, a little postmodern, the photographer, the subject being the photographer at the same time. Okay, so let's say ourselves we got 10 minutes before the break. Let's set. Let's set itself targets for things have been a shoot. I'm gonna take it kind of taking turns to go around with you, so we'll pick one aspect of one of the shoes would come up with s O. What kind of work together on one of the things you want to get. Let's let's agree that we go. We're all gonna try and get the same thing while you're all gonna try and get the same thing. So one of those things is this object more than one object. We want a shot. Often object. Kind of in the alleyway in some way. Okay, so that may be the car on the ground. It may be your idea could get quite complicated. Some kind of interesting ideas there about the journal. The shoe is kind of something you expect to find there. I'm your statue is kind of an in Congress thing. So you're going to think about the juxtaposition between you know, I can kind of see you shooting low with it right in the middle, on the ground on. Does this kind of al around it? And it just looks completely out of place. Um, so right, we've got that shot. We've got the object in the environment. What you thinking that with the model? What? Your thoughts I have, Chief. Well, I just thinking of using the model for both of my objects. One with her flowing white dress and maybe no shoes and trying on my decrepit old beach shoe. It's a woman's shoe. I can't remember the size or if it will even better off to look at it many others with my glass float. It's sort of a nice I have to have one. That's sort of a dark green and one that's a light blue. Yeah, I thought the light blue might go visit one's about this big and others about the size of a tennis ball. So, yeah, that was my idea. It was either in front or I'm thinking, you know, it's a nice soft line, right? And depending on her to what's the story with shoe? I don't know if I have a story. Okay. Well, what's why? Why is she gonna be trying on the shoe? I don't know. OK, right. We need to think about when we use the model. We need to think about human plausible stories, I think, or very in Congress ones. Right? I was sort of thinking at a Cinderella idea where she's trying on something, except this is the opposite because it's not a beautiful shoe. Yeah, but okay. Right. Yeah, put, we'll ponder that one. OK, Ok, okay. What? Everybody else shots with the model? Yep. I haven't seen the space. And you mentioned it's a great and the thought came into my head with those shoes that she has with the high heels. Just kind of getting stuck in the great with her shoe. Yep. Yeah. What we're gonna do is we're gonna take a time when we go out there on press will go out first and leave your cameras in here and go and look first. Um, kind of what you don't want to be doing is just launching into shooting because there's two things. Think about it. Is the shot itself in post production. So maybe you nail some great shots anyway, that don't require less post production of that. You know, if you do, that's fantastic. But there's kind of a lot of thinking needs to go into this because we picked it deliberately, blend location, some odd objects, and we're gonna need to make these shots in one way or another. So we're kind of constructing images from these ingredients that we have. So we're gonna think about first on, then we'll kind of working out what we're gonna do. What about everybody else? Have you got any ideas of the model? Um, what I brought was ah ah, glass bucket with the bunch of shells in it. So I was thinking, Maybe she's just looking at that glass bucket as a piece of art deciding what she's going to do with it or if it's good enough for her, right? Yeah. Yeah. Have you got any suggestions from our online audience about these objects? Um, we do one of the questions, though, that we'd like to ask. Are you gonna be using ambient light or just just m Yeah. Start throwing an artificial eyes. Well, we're going toe. Really? Confuse matters. They were Jason, uh, baffle was talking about an old canvas. Um, the old canvas looking journal might be good to use with the with the model A swell. Yeah. Lisa Lenses said the journal should be written in by the model sitting crouched over in the alley in her dresses. If she's abandoned writing on her sadness and a missed opportunity Lover scoring, abandoned cheddar, etcetera, etcetera. All story. Yeah, that my can nine says the models hand reaches towards the Kodak camera breaking into frame a low angle, shallow depth of field. Yes. Yeah. People want to know what what the model looks like. Well, you'll find out after the break. Okay, So we have the model. We have our objects. So we're gonna be thinking about that. What else? Just say we have the alley itself. Okay, so what I wanted to try and do is get three shots each Eso one is of an object or multiple objects. There's no reason why you need to limit yourself to one. You can add a few together. Um, but again, try and tell some salt coherent story with the emissions and it makes sense. You can use the objects with the model, but they're all kind of things in the in the alley. Try and get some sort shot off the alley itself, but also the detail in the alley. So there's this kind of everything we got. That's four, isn't it? Yeah. So some sort details shot in the alley itself. So that could be something like the texture in the window. The texture on the wall of texture on the ground on object in the alley, and that could be allied to the texture on the ground collection will not. However, you want a position, it does the model, and then we could use the model in conjunction with the items. And then there's the alley itself. So we're aiming for four shots now, If it doesn't all come off, it doesn't matter. You know, we're not gonna I'm gonna make you sit here and explain why only one worked tonight. It's kind of just an exercise in thinking through different ways of shooting. And if you get stuck, just look slow down in the way you're looking and think. Okay, What would make this look cool? You know, Would lots more color make this local? Would less color make this look good? You look good in black and white. Would it look good? If, you know, I kind of really dark down the side and then change the balance of light? Just kind of thinking through all the things we've been talking about. And I do appreciate we still haven't really done in post production other than me clicking if you adjustment layers on the north says kind of an odd way around doing it. But doing it this way around we're thinking about what do we need to do if you shoot from shots and you have an idea of corruption, it doesn't work out. Then you know you'll know better next time Last. Nothing to worry about this stage