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One-Shot Summary Part One

I have just come to the end of my three weeks working on the filiming phase of design practice one which was called 'One-Shot'. I enjoyed the project largely because I have an interest in film, cinematograhy and the ways in which different ideas can be put together to create a certain meaning.

We worked together in groups and part of the challenge was to ensure we were all well organised and knew what one another were doing so that we could work efficiently in the short time span we had to plan, make and edit our peice.



Here are some points I wrote down when first thinking of some ideas for our one shot film (bearing in mind the rule of the camera not allowed to be moved from the tripod throughout the clip.)

One-Shot Design 2 'Shop inccident'

One-Shot Design 1 'Bus Stop'

'Bus Stop'
For this idea I wanted to have a character similar to that of Christopher Boone, a character from a book I read by Mark Haddon called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time in which 15 year old Christopher, the lead character, suffers from AS. The condiction restricts his abilty to empathize with human emotions and the feelings of others, whilst at the same time having very strong beliefs of his own, often seeming very unusual to the common person.

The narrative of the short clip would basically be the character, suffering from a condition such as AS, sitting at the bus stop, anxiosuly waiting for his bus to arrive. Before long, to his dismay, an elderly lady sits besides him and tries to make conversation. The character then begins what turns out to be an epic struggle as he tries to put an end to the small talk and what seems a simple, mondane situation turns out to be a tortuous one as he eventually loses his patients and walks away.

I liked the idea as it provides an insight into the mind of someone who thinks very differently to most people and has an unusual yet intriguing outlook on life.

One-Shot Design 4 'Surgery'

One-Shot Design 3 Entitled 'Making a Sandwich'

Introduction to the world of Multimedia

Hey im Kieron and I am enjoying the fist few days of the Multimedia inductions. We are known for being the 'drunks' of the design subjects so hopefully we'll all live up to that repuatation. I studied Media, Film Studies, English and ICT at A-level last year.

The tutors all seem like adults who still have the child inside them very much alive and kicking. They are very animated and thats what we need since this is the ultimate creative course and the best course.. of course.

The help and safety talks have been useful and have been ideal to listen to in the semi drunken states we have been in these last few mornings im sure.

I did the whiteboard task on Tuesday and really liked the concept of short animations consisting of many still frames taken from altered drawings. I thought that many people had clashing ideas which made it hard to articulate everything on the whiteboard but that just went to show how vibrant minded some of us students are I guess.

Thats enough for now... catch ya later aligater(s)