One Shot Film (Evaluation)

The one shot movie was a group project. We only had three people in our group but it wasn’t as bad as we thought it would it be. We only really had one idea so we settled on that but once that was done I came up with an idea that I liked more using the same piece of footage as the group so I decided to hand this piece in as my main bit. The idea came to me when I was bored on YouTube watching video while waiting for Dan to come over and I came pass an anti-bullying video, can’t remember what it was that I started looking at.

We filmed the initial idea at Sagaar’s house in Leicester and it wasn’t really much of a problem except for the fact that we weren’t quiet sure of what it meant by “one-shot”. All we knew was that the camera couldn’t move but we weren’t too sure about if we were allowed to pan and/or tilt, but we did it anyway which I was a bit hesitant about, but in the end it did look good so I didn’t really care but was just hoping that we had got it right. We wanted it to be very dark and glum so we didn’t really have any lights, looking back it wasn’t the best of ideas the quality of the video wasn’t the best even though it looked good. I enjoyed the filming and the editing and I got to do more of it as I did my individual one as well as the group one.

After the anti-bullying idea came to me, I decided to keep the film short, simple but with a hard hitting message. I searched the internet for facts about bullying and I found a few that I used in my movie. Once I started I got really into because it’s something I feel strongly about unlike the first movie we did about the guy with girl problems I felt that this movie possessed no real meaning. I think if had come up with the idea earlier I could have tried out different locations to film in and tried a few more shots with more people.

Overall I think that my movie was a success even though it was done quickly and I only had one piece of footage to work with which was because I felt I didn’t have the time to go out film another couple of pieces on my own. Even though I got the project done I realised that I spent a lot of time on an idea that I didn’t want to do, purely because I just wanted to get it done but I see know that if I would’ve done something that I had thought through and planned out I would’ve not only produced work that was of a higher quality but also I would’ve enjoyed myself a lot more.