MURDER IN ONE SHOT!

Here's another single-shot short film, this time made by students in bath (not 'in a bath'). It's a complete narrative in three minutes and clear and simple in design and execution. They enjoy telling this story, the flow of it is matched by the flow of the camera...

We will have a look at these short films when I begin the one shot project with you all!

One Shot Wonders

Chris Cooke here, director, writer and now taking you through a world of one shot filmmaking. A one shot film has to start somewhere, so here are a few examples well worth looking at... some are pretty big budget, highly ambitious shorts made with vast resources, others very simple... but all worth considering: what are the choices they make narratively and visually?

First up - big budget, fancy, reverse stuff:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/filmnetwork/media/shorts/A22487709?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1


And now something quite artful - this is only a small section of a slightly longer piece, but it is low budget and from a filmmaker based here in this region:

http://revver.com/video/15825/catharsis/


And now something funded again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/filmnetwork/media/shorts/A36536060?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1

Each film uses movement to tell it's single-shot story: you will be even more restricted, working with a fixed camera, but you will be much more imaginative because of this!