Ideas for Individual Experimental

Since I have now been given the brief for the individual 1 minute film project I can now start to think of ideas. Although there are a lot of restrictions, it means that I have a lot narrower spectrum from which to research ideas and techniques. The camera has to be static, so I have been thinking of including the cityscape or some other type of landscape in the background of the static shot.

It also has to be one continuous shot and contain an object and a person, so I have been thinking about including a girl or woman in my shot. Therefore I'm thinking that perhaps I can also incorporate a car into the 1 minute.

I have watched a few 1 minute experimental films on Vimeo and one that stood out at me was someone drawing on a sheet of paper in invisible ink and then at the end it was revealed with a different coloured water pen that the picture was of birds- and the accompanying atmospheric track was also of nature and birds. (View here)

My initial idea therefore is to film at sunset or on a rainy day, and have a long shot of the cityscape before a car pulls up. A woman or girl should get out of the car, take something from the boot and walk off frame and there should be some loud noises. It should be unexplained and uncanny, perhaps the entire static shot is from behind a tree or another car, which is just visible at the side of the frame (as if a voyeur) and then the car should leave. 

Another idea is that it should open with a girls back to the camera, perhaps it appears that she is writing something. Or drawing, rather the cityscape that is in front of her. Yet with a twist, as the cityscape she is drawing is a skewed version of the one that is in front of her.

I'm going to be doing some research into other short and one minute films, I have found a good website where I can get inspiration and watch films to get ideas. View here  as they host a competition between 25 one minute films and as it is all an online competition they are all available to watch on demand.

The restrictions are a bit hampering to the idea that I had which included editing but this means that I have to be more restrictive with my creative ideas. I'm hoping to come up with a good idea from the ones above and do some more research into the long take which will essentially be what our short 1 minute film consists of. I will also be doing more research into experimental film theory itself, to understand the reasonings behind a lot of experimental film techniques.