One shot Research and Inspiration!

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Research
From watching existing one shot films, I thought it would be interesting and also good for our group to research a mixture of short one shot films before jumping straight into filming our own. The research could also give us inspiration for our own ideas, which we could work with when planning out what we are planning to create.
Whilst watching the one shot films we were able to find, we thought it would be best to show which films inspired us the most. Therefore we could talk about how we could possibly use similar elements that we have seen to boost up our own ideas.

The particular one shot short film below was interesting to include in my research because of the use of depth of field within the shot. I personally liked how the the woman is in the foreground and the two males are in the background, and the shot pans out slightly and focuses on the two men in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zyyn6UGlFc

I also like this one shot film because it captures all the elements of the fighting the audience want to see but in one shot. I think this would be quite hard to film but I like this because you follow the movement of the character in the film. This would be a good way to make the audience feel like they are apart of the film, as they might feel as though they're interacting with the characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kqNSQn5QU

Inspiration 
Recently I watched Lee Evans at The o2 Arena on DVD one night with a friend. As I was watching I thought the speed dating part (shown below) would be really effective for the use of lighting within our one shot film. So when we all met to discuss our ideas, I showed them the clip to see what they thought. We came up with various ideas that would go well with the similar style of lighting. However we wanted the storyline of the film to be quite gloomy and dull, which we suggested would work nicely with the spot lighting. To do this we thought of a variety of effects we could use to set the atmosphere within the shot. We talked about the different sound effects such as, thunder, rain and street noises, depending on what we were going to base the one shot film on. Therefore we thought it would be a good idea to decide what our film was going to be about. We all agreed on the spot lighting, the sound effects and how we wanted to set a dim atmosphere, which develops a sad, lonely or scary mood for the audience. Therefore we came up with two main ideas. Firstly we thought of a person’s life in different stages, for example, growing up and then the person dies in an accident. The second idea was a car crash, which showed the build up to how the two cars crash. We decided together as a group that the car crash would work a lot better because we could use more sound effects and we could also block out any sound from filming, such as the light switches flicking on and off. As a result, the clip of Lee Evans above is our main inspiration for this project.