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!