One Shot Rationale

In the one shot project we were put into groups to create a short one-shot film in where there is only one camera movement (if any) yet the footage still tells a story. Firstly we were all shown a few one-shot scenes, often these take hours to choreograph and take several takes, however these are also often quite long so by having shorter footage we don’t need to spend quite as much time as mainstream Hollywood. Our first test shooting for the one-shot involved us having a stationary camera and a scene taking place where two people in shot are mourning over someone ‘buried’ but off shot we have another member of our group talking in a muffled tone creating the illusion that the person buried isn’t dead, as the scene comes to an end the camera pans up to show just the sky as the voices die out. We tried to incorporate some kind of techniques used in film to make shots look better, the first few seconds is just the setting where the rule of thirds points out the key areas of the scene. When it came to planning our final one shot we used some of the things we’d learnt while practicing using different lighting, we attempted to have a scene that showed 3 news stories which we could then edit to remove the sound from our footage and adding a voiceover from the news talking about the stories we were trying to ‘mime’. Overall this wasn’t my favourite project however if we were to do this again I’d spend more time trying to plan a scene however I think that maybe each member of the group should’ve had separate ideas and then we film them all helping with each separate shot, giving us all individual footage to edit for our own portfolio.


-MZH-