One Shot - The Planning!

To plan our One Shot film, we arranged to meet for the first time at 12:30 on Friday 5th November (yes, I’m writing this a bit late…again!). Together we put forward our ideas, which we had ALL been thinking about long and hard the night before, and although, at first, the ideas did not seem promising, we decided to base the film on Ollie’s plan.

One Shot idea:
We came to a decision that the film will show a young girl chalking her different emotions onto the ground, allowing us to convey a story without the use of speech, which is slightly unusual. To expand on this idea, we went away and created a few sketches each which the young girl could draw in the film.

The image below contains sketches (drawn by Sam), symbolising the young girl’s life, which we intend to use in the film.

We aim to divide the drawing area into three sections: Happy Times, Worried Times and Sad Times. In each section, the girl will draw relevant images, conveying her feelings (e.g. in the Happy section, she will draw things which make her feel happy, such as family, friends, Christmas, holidays etc., in the Worried section, she will draw images that represented family arguments and in the Sad section, she will draw images which show a family break-up).

Having considered the amount of time it will take to chalk out these drawings on the ground, we decided to speed the sequence up, at the editing stage, to show a time-lapse.

Inspiration:
The inspiration for this One Shot came from a documentary shown by Chris Cook in a seminar. One scene displayed a young girl drawing on the floor, which seemed to have made its mark in Ollie’s thoughts.