One Shot Film: Wasted

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One Shot Film
Filming
Ideas
On the filming the short project we came up with a number of ideas namely two students goin to a party in a flat. The focus of the film is on the lift. Another idea that came up was that of using the lift and things happening as the lift opened on every floor. We then merged the two ideas. The narrative follows a drunk student who is already in the lift as two other come in. When they get to the next floor there are two gals fighting. One of the girls escapes the fight by entering the lift and leaving the other follow the lift by the staircase. On the next floor there is a flight of kites into the lift. The floor above that, the lift opens to find a drunk guy sleeping on a mattress. The floor after is where there is the party scene. The students come out of the lift leaving the drunk guy. We came out but leaving the drunk guy. On the extended narrative you see the lift go up and one character follows it to the next lift to call the ‘wasted’ guy to the party. It goes down to find a guy sweeping the remains of the party. The lift closes and goes back down to find on one of the floor the girls fighting. The one who had escaped earlier on gets hit by wood and falls to the ground. The doors close and the drunk guy (camera) looks into the ceiling to fade to the end. We developed an idea inspired but what could happen in a lift.

The Process
We had group a meeting to discuss about the ideas of the narrative, where we will film and what we need. We did the filming the next day on one of the group member’s flat. We had about four takes for the film and we selected the one which we agreed was good. We took the footage for editing and we added music for there was sound on the footage. We added titles and fades for the transitions.

Evaluation
The film had a negative reception with critics stating that the lighting was bad. On filming we did not consider that outside the lift will not look as light as the inside the lift. The narrative is not clear after merging the two ideas into one narrative and having an extended narrative which I feel distorted the narrative. Some critics say the party does not capture your interest because the narrative is not clear. I realised that a male and a female character came in at the beginning of the lift seeming to go together to the party. On the party floor only one of them comes out. It down grades the narrative and does not convince you that the camera is the persona. We could have had a persona narrate the story, or have interior monolog about what’s happening and his opinion