Our Finished One Shot Film

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Here is the final edit of our One Shot film.  As is evident from watching the film, we have pushed the boundaries of the rules by putting the camera on a Dolley (on wheels) so we could move the shot around without physically touching the camera. Although I am reasonably happy with the final shot, I still believe that with better props the film would of been more successful.
Within the edited version, we have added a dance audio track that has a muffle effect. This co-ordinates with the character moving from one room to another and also suggests the idea of time passing. Moreover, we have also added a title sequence to match the video. The final stage of post production editing was the increasing of saturation of the entire film. This was done because the lighting seemed to “bleach out” the whole scene, possibly because the white balance wasn't set properly on the camera when we recorded the original footage. Regardless, the film looked better with added saturation which adds to the films effectiveness.
Overall,  I think that the final edit was reasonably successful and I am proud of our first One Shot Film. Enjoy!

The Unedited One Shot Film - "Was It Worth It?"

Here is the unedited version of our film, the edited and complete version will be up shortly. I hope it gives an insight into our first filming experience.

The Shoot

Today, we filmed our One Shot; despite not completely satisfying our initial plan, we made productive use of the limited time we had in the studio. With hindsight, there is much scope for improvement that my group and I would make, but were simply not possible during the time we had. Regardless of having an exciting and innovation idea for our film, I feel we underestimated the difficulty of the transforming the imagery and visions in our head into video. I felt the quality of the materials we used for props were not good enough - the cardboard was simply too flimsy, possibly styrofoam would have been better although this would have been harder to get hold of. Overall, the group and I were all pleased with the outcome of our first One Shot film, and cannot wait to show everyone!

Lights...

Camera...

Action?

One Shot Preparation

Prior to starting to shoot our One film , our group had to meet up to assess the necessary props we required. This lead to us to face our first problem; where do we get hold of industrial amounts of cardboard? Consequently, we went to the local Tesco, to the Graphics Department in the University and managed to get plenty - too much in fact. The next job was to duct tape all the cardboard together to produce two large wall-like screens. These were used to divide as well as help to isolate the different scenes, insinuating the idea of time passing (as shown in the several images below). Moreover, during that time we also managed to finalise everyone’s roles within the production team. We then noted the list of actors that we had contacted and established who would partake in our film. Lastly, Alex and I booked the studio and equipment so all that is now left to do is film! Fingers crossed it all works out!

Lighting Practice

This week we messed around with lighting techniques to notice the differences in an indoor interview environment. Below is a sample of what was recorded:





From the video you can see a clear glow on Harriet's face in comparison to Tom's. Deborah our tutor complimented us for the fade in light in the background and also questioned the composition of our shot.

The Plan For Our One Shot Film

After brainstorming a variety of ideas and shuffling through an array of previously published one shot films, we managed to come to a conclusion on how ours will pan out.
Our inspiration came from a video we stumbled upon whilst looking through other one shot films which can be seen here.

We managed to get a rough text based story board of our film which I then mapped out in a visual presentation which can be seen below:

Text Based Story Board

Visual Story Board

One Shot

Today, I decided to research 'One Shot Films' to get a better understanding of what I will be doing as part of my course. My initial thought was of a music video by a Music Artist called 'Tim Halperin' where the use of 'One Shot' is used in a very simple but effective way. This video was shot by two directors, known as Jonathan Combs and Joe Childress. 

The reason I believe this video is successful is that there are many different scene changes, by moving the scenery, instead of putting together many takes. I believe the constant movement of the camera and scenes work well with the song as it represents the idea of life in motion.

This video has inspired me with a few ideas to try and push the boundaries and the rules that have been given to us by playing around with the idea to move the scenery rather than to change the actual scene itself. This will take a lot of time and effort to prepare the props but I believe as a group we could do this, we just need to think of a good storyline which will allow us to pull this off.

Here is the 'Making of the Video' to Tim Halperin's song 'She Runs' so you can see how the video was put together.

First Blog

I've never done a blog before, let alone Multimedia; I suppose there is a first time for everything. I want to learn things I don't know and hopefully this blog will allow me to show you the development of my work over the next three years during my time here at Nottingham Trent University.