The Meeting One Shot Video

Above is my one shot video called 'The Meeting'. We were basically selected into groups one morning and were told that we would be shooting a one shot film with the title 'The Meeting'. Our idea came to us when we were first sitting in our group trying to think about what our story could be about, it was suggested that we should re-enact the meeting that we were having at the time, because it was quite an awkward situation and no one was really sure what to say to each other.

Our film basically begins with four people entering a room for a meeting about a group task that they will be performing in the future. The one shot we decided to use was a constant 360 degrees rotation for the full two minutes of the film. We planned to have the camera in the middle of a table and have the four people sat at each side of the table, so that different facial expressions and body language could be portrayed within each person. As we practiced this we found the rotation difficult, one reason for this was we had to use a power cable to keep the camera on as the battery had not been charged before we rented the camera out. The second reason was that we found it difficult to keep the camera at a consistent speed as it rotated, while keeping the camera man out of view. The final reason was that as the camera was rotating there was only a brief second that the actor/actress was in view as it passed and therefore wasting time filming the wasted space between the actors/actresses.

The idea behind our movie would be that there was no dialogue therefore we could each edit the movie individually because the work was a single project after all. We used this method so we could all add our own subtitles to the piece so that they would all be individual and have different meanings. Therefore the constant 360 degrees rotation was not practical because there was not much time to insert the subtitles before the image of the person had passed. As a group we decided that we should have the same rotation idea but pause on each actor and actress to allow time for us all to insert our own subtitles. We held the image of the person for around 3 seconds and then increased speed on the camera movement through the wasted space so that we were not wasting valuable recording time.
We finally filmed the scene to the standard we required after many re-takes and 5 hours of filming. I then had chance to edit the video to my own style as shown above. I decided to include thought bubbles instead of subtitles, I did this because the idea of subtitles is to show what the person is saying, however there was no mouth movement and my thought bubbles show that there is no communication whatsoever between the four students.

One shot video Editing Practice

Above is thae practice that i performed on editing video clips. I did this task so that i could be familiar with the features of editing and cutting clips of film so that i would be prepared for this process after shooting my one shot video.