One Shot Film

Recently in class we have been studying the art of making a film in one take with no editing.

In our session on friday we watched three films which have employed these techniques in their productions 

The films were called....

• Timecode

• Russian Ark

• Surprise.

One director whose work we looked at in particular  was the work of Michael Figgis (who directed the film Timecode). He designed a device called a figrig the figrig is very useful because it helps the person handling the camera to get a steady shot when filming.


We were then set a minature task by our tutor Mike for the following week. The task was to to create our own one take films for the following week, we used a Panasonic Camcorder and a Figrig to hwlp us film our short film.

In a group of Five Mandy, Simon, Ross  and Rob went to th lake on wednesday afternoon and filmed our one take film.

• The Storyline 

The film was directed by Mandy. the storyline was basically a transaction which had been unsuccessfull
After completing the film heres my reflection on how the filming went on that day and what I have learned

• My reflection

I felt that it was a good exersize as the five of us worked well together in a team. I also had an insight into the amount of work timing effort and precision it takes to make a one shot film, for instance if there were any mistakes we had to start the whole scene again as we could'nt edit out any useless peices of footage or intercut scenes. Another reason why there were numerous retakes was because people from the university would walk along the set when we were filming. Due to the whether conditions sometimes there was too much  light exposure on the camera lens.



scene 1 from mandybriggs on Vimeo.