From early 1982 to graduation in June 1984 I used a Sony Betamax kit to video undergraduate life at Oxford University.

The 18 tapes and some 40 hours of content I am digitizing includes:

• The Oxford Union Debating Society (featuring Hilali Noordeen) The day I was in the Union Chamber I was sitting next to Susanna White and Steve Garvey who were shooting a documentary about ‘Women in Oxford’.
• The Oxford Theatre Group at the Edinburgh Fringe (Featuring all the plays: 13 Clocks, The Hunger Artist, Edward II, Titus Alone directed by Patrick Harbinson, produced by Nicky King and the Oxford Review)
• I shot this over three weeks while helping out behind the scenes at St. Mary’s Street Hall (the OTG venue) and kipping in a Free Mason’s Lodge by the Castle. Nicky King and Matthew Faulk edited in my Balliol Room (now the Oxford Internet Institute) cum edit suite the following term.
• The Oxford Student Union elections.
• The Lightweights Boat Crew in training with David Foster et al (11th March 1983)
• Torpids (various)
• Romeo & Juliet (in which I played Mercutio and lost my pants during the fight scene)
• The Taming of the Shrew: an OUDS production  (in which I played Baptista) And the rehearsals.
• Abigail’s Party (directed by Anthony Geffen)
• Various other plays and boat crews
• The May Day Celebrations 1982
• Training for the Oxford Students Union president
• Oxford Television News (Various episodes of OTN in which Hugo Dixon does a Jeremy Paxman and we are introduced to the Chicken Pal Society at the Gate of India + TCG, PWG and CJP) (9th May 1983)
• OTN. Visit of Prince Charles (18th May 1983) + ‘Exter guy in glasses’ or is this in fact a Jesus guy doing a ‘party political broadcast’.
• Oxford University Boxing
• A workshop on how to shoot video (10th February 1983)
• A corporate promotional film for the language school ‘Speakeasy’
• Windsurfing
• The Oxford & Cambridge Varsity Ski Trip to Wengen
• perhaps a play produced by Tessa Ross directed by Clive Brill
• perhaps Andrew Sullivan directed by Alex Ogilvie in ‘Another Country’
• and perhaps the Women’s Eight.

and various other antics around Balliol College and the university that will reveal themselves in the course of being downloaded, graded and digitized.

I believe my aim should be to use this as the foundation for a documentary.

I need to raise £2000 to digitize/archive this content and am therefore looking for backers.

P.S. It is six weeks since I was behind a camera. I may be about to shoot some swimmers for a swimming e-learning app but if you have anything immediate let me know.