One shot film Final piece

This is our final One Shot Film.


The quality of this video isn't very good as I have to get down the file size for uploading so there's a reserve link- http://vimeo.com/7764945

We had a meeting for gathering ideas together before filming it.
As we all liked the idea of the camera being the eyes of the audience and this idea worked quite well on our practice piece, we used this concept again but only in a different story.
Then we came up with this story of a guy trying to do his essay in his room but his flatmates keep coming in and try to get him out drinking.
We discussed our plot in detail and the order of things happening. I think we worked quite well as a group as we discussed the problems and tried to find solutions which we think might occurred when filming it.
Although we did quite a lot of takes on the shotting day and finding problems as we were shotting along, we were able to get the problems fixed.
Sometimes we just go along to film it and see how it worked out and what didn't worked well.
But we all were pleased about the final piece.

What was good:

• It's very realistic and situation like this does happen in real life. I think it makes the audience have a feeling of 'ah, I understand'.
• It's simple and easy to understand. Nothing fancy but real.
• I think the camera handling was good. It did look like how our eyes would see.
• Put aside the acting, I think the plot itself was good.
  

What was not good:

• The voice of the guy's thought wasn't as good as I thought it would be. We probably need some professions for help.
• The time passing issue was the biggest problem we discussed. It would have been better if we could change the time on the clock to show the time passing.

Through this project, I understand that a one minute short film is very hard to do as there's a time limit. And especially we are doing a one shot film, there's a lot of limitations and it is very important to keep the film simple and easy to understand.