One Shot Inspiration / One Shot Pieces

As you can see we finally made some one shot movies.

This practice one was a very basic idea, but it went very well. We were very fortunate to get an out of order machine to add to our plot line. As you can see we applied my idea of using a person’s point a view like in the video below. Using the hand gestures really adds to the character and interactivity of the piece. I think the music is also another advantage to the overall video because it gives it a very casual feel. The only disadvantage to the video is the zooming in. Unfortunately we didn’t realise that you couldn’t zoom in. But we didn’t go over the top with the zooming in it, so it doesn’t look that bad.

FML from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

Here is the final video. We decided to shoot the video in Jonny Sedaratis room. The concept of the movie is about a student who is constantly bothered by his drunken friends to come out and drink with them, while he struggles to write his essay.

This one shot took many attempts pull off. Mostly because we had so much going on within it that when you messed up, you had to start again. Timing was very important in this as we had to time it right each time, or we had to start again.

Once again we used hand movements and the person’s point of view idea. This time we also added thoughts of the person as a second audio. We did this by going into a quiet room and recording the dialogue we wanted and putting it into the one shot during editing stages (this was done in a quiet room to give the audio a slight echo).

There were a few disadvantages to the video it thought. One of them was that I felt we could have acted a bit better in some places, some places lacked character. Also the clock, although we did include looking at the clock into the whole plot, we were hoping that we could have altered the clock so it look like a lot more time had passed in the one shot, as his friends kept coming in and out, so it looks a bit more realistic. But it never happened.

Accept for that I think the whole piece was excellent; it turned out a lot better than I thought. The music, the plot itself, setting, everything went well. I also had a great time filming it with my group, we had many laughs trying to act.

Shots In The Kitchen... from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

This clip if from a website named collegehumor (but embedded from youtube). I like this work due to its humour and its clever ideas. Although we have to include music into the mix, I thought it would be interesting to add thoughts to the audio, like in this clip. I think it will give a more overall understanding to whatever our piece will be themed around.

Although there is movement within the piece (which we are not allowed) I think the video has shown me that because we are not allowed to move, the atmosphere and the surroundings must be interesting, just like this club scene. So that the viewer we not become too bored from the one position.

http://www.collegehumor.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/collegehumor