One Shot Video

I've made a one shot film before for my AS level coursework, I knew it was a completely different experince to making a standard film, as there were a lot of rules you were unable to break, if broken it would not count as a 'one shot film', therefore I went into this project quite confident, once we got into the pre-production stage, we found it pretty confusion to identify a suitable location .We then decided to use a studio room, which allowed us to use equipment which we never used before, I.e lighting, tracking.

This allowed us to enhance our knowledge on equipment which were never used before. To film this film we knew we had to be organised as a group, as it needed input from every team member to create the one shot film, at the start of the filming process none of us had a clue on what was going on to be honest. we decided to use bed sheets as a path way through Alex's life, the girls used there artistic skills to design the frames on the sheets which enabled us to proceed filming. The concept of this one shot video includes a guys daily routine which consisted of standing around smoking or argueing with his girlfriend , wanting to get away from this frustrated life style. He dreams up a club in his head and starts to enjoy the music, but is snapped back to reality when the dream ends. To conclude I am really happy with the one shot video we have produced, considering our lack of knowledge on how certain equipment work, we had some pretty interesting shots which were 'highlighted' through the fantastic use of lighting. However we did encountered a couple of problems like;

- Keeping the main character in shot whilst also being able to see the bed sheets

- The camera rails getting obstructed by parts of the set

- Lack of people to help with the set

But we overcome all these obstacles as we proceeded through the video, whilst filming for five hours straight. After completing the one shot film, we had to edit the film, which at first seemed difficult but myself and Tom managed to construct the editing process to the best of our ability's.