Single Shot Film

Looking at all kinds of films they benefit from humans physical thinking to affect their feelings and create illusion. In each film is a state of change. For instance love stories which start always happy but end sad.
That is because the one thing that every human knows is change. It could be just the age when somebody grows up but it also could be moving to another city or country. Because of that films bases on changes, too. Either the story starts positivity and ends negatively or it starts negatively and has a positive ending. During the course of the story two opposite forces are smashing together and harmonizing in the end.

But what is a single shot now?

A single shot is a film with no cuts so the whole movie is filmed with one shot. That means it is not produced from various shots that are later trimmed together to one single film.

The effect of a single shot film is that the watcher becomes a part of it as well as feelings increases.

To depict a narrative we had to produce an own film without any cuts.

Our story is about a happy teenaged girl who is waiting for the lift.
To have a strong first shot which shows the girls happiness we used the close up and also another source of light. At the time she walks to the lift it opens and two of her 'friends' come out. Both sides welcome each other nicely while passing.
The camera perspective shows still the girls face during she walks into the lift.

Right after the girl has turned her back to her 'friends' both of them turn around and start gossiping and giving her bitchy looks. The girl notice that and turns sad. As soon as the door is closed she breaks down and starts crying.
To express her feelings better we dammed the light in the lift.

Our final shot should be strong and refer to the beginning therefore we used the close up again and filmed the pain that the girl expresses.

At first it was hard for me and my group to come up with an idea that would force the watcher to commiserate with the actress. After a while we were thinking about producing a one shot of a person who is influenced by an angel and a devil which are on each shoulder. The side of the angel should be bright and the side of the devil dark. The problem on that was that we did not have the equipment for it.

When we came up with the idea of a girl who gets bullied by her 'fake friends' we wanted to film the clash in a corridor and then after let her walk into a bathroom to cry. After we recorded the scene none of us was very happy with the light because it was to bright in the bathroom. Therefore it did not stresses her feelings. That led us to think about another location just as the lift.