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!

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Exploding Plastic Inevitable - Velvet Underground

The first time that Multimedia became a term. A mixture of music, sound, props Andy Warhole's performance took place in 1966.

Mad Tv - i phone

Pans Labyrinth

Lighting techniques give this film a majical feel, "the stuff of legends" and reminds us of the ancient nature of the story.

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Koyaanisquatsi 1

Alice by Jan Svankmajer

Lucas with the Lid Off (Michel Gondry, director, 1994)

Unkle - Rabbit in your Headlights

Slow mo Skating

First year Witeboard animations

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Early films of P. Greenway

Peter Greenaway - "Notions of new media"

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Vivre sa vie - Jean-Luc Godard

Notice the framing and exposure, it feels akward and Nana faces out of the image. The window outside is well exposed, showing the bright day, emphasising the darkness inside.
Later when she dances the camera work is flows, framing carrying her gracefully in the frame.

La Ballan Rouge (The Red Balloon )

Le Balloon Rouge, Albert Lamorisse (1956)

Russian Art Film 1979

One shot film - student project

Here is another one shot film, simplified.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2991980123705224345&q=one+shot+film&total=8293&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=9