One Shot - The Movie

To stimulate our creative thinking in film making, the College of Art required us to make a movie without stopping the camera. A so-called 'one shot' movie. This is different from movies where one scene leads into another by means of 'cutting' between scenes. The assignment thus made us think of ways to change the scene environment whilst recording.

I liked the idea of taking the One Shot concept literally and wrote underneath script for our movie:

Title: ONE SHOT

FADE IN

INT. HOUSE - DAY

SFX: Startup and playing of a gramophone 
(Morriconi: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)

DIRECTOR
(loud, through megaphone)
[camera: sepia]   Action! 
[clapper board in view with title: ONE SHOT]

In the house two cowboys are seen, near to the legs of a woman on the floor. 
BAD COWBOY 1 (BC1) zips up his jeans and buckles up his belt. 
BAD COWBOY 2 (BC2) takes furniture out of the house (leaves view on the right). 
BC1 leaves the house (from the left). 
BC2 returns into house (from right), takes the mirror from the wall. 
The wall rotates to the back, opening up the scenery behind, 
whilst BC2 leaves (on the right).

EXT. DESSERT - DAY

GOOD COWBOY (GC) is seen on the left, trembling from fear. 
BC1 walks up to him (from right) pointing his gun at CG.

   BC1
   (John Wayne like)
   Pull your gun and you're a dead man! 

   CG
   (stutter)
   You SCUM. Rape my wife and plunder my house.

BC2 crosses the stage (right-to-left) with a mirror under his arm, 
revealing the DIRECTOR.

   BC1
   (John Wayne like)
   And now we take your life too... [shoots twice]


   DIRECTOR
   (loud, through megaphone)
[camera: take sepia off,  CUT!
quick zoom out to reveal ...]

SFX: Gramophone scratches

INT. FILM SET - DAY
   DIRECTOR
   (whilst walking up to BC1)
   ONE shot! ONE shot, damn it.

   DIRECTOR (cont.)
   (taking the gun from BC1)
   We need ONE shot.

ACTOR2 (=BC2) puts down mirror. 
ACTOR1 (=CG) picks up a bottle of water. 
Torn and bloody WOMAN walks off the set.

   DIRECTOR (cont.)
SFX: Music stops. (pointing gun at BC2, and fires)

SFX: Skipping record sounds. 
ACTOR2 falls dead into the backdrop sheet 
and the sheet comes down to reveal the wall behind, 
that has on it as text:

SFX: Music comes back "FIN"

FADE OUT

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One Shot poster

Enjoy!

Note: No cowboys or cowgirls were hurt during the recording of this movie ;o)