One Take Videos

While looking at various types of music video I came across the One Take video. TVTropes.org explains a "Oner" as it calls them as:

One very long continuous shot. The camera moves, the actors move, things happen, the camera keeps shooting. Difficult. Expensive. Rarely makes it out of the editing room intact. It's also an expensive pain in the ass on film cameras, many of which hold no more than 5 minutes (if that) of film for a shot.

While this is very colloquial it does have a truth in it, it is difficult to create an effective one take video, as it requires a great amount of precision and timing. There are a few artists in my genre that use One Take video.

Perhaps the most well known One Take video is Ok Go's video for 'This Too Shall Pass', showing a very complicated process across the whole video

While this is very impressive, it is not representative of all One Take videos. For example, a singer in a similar style to my artist, Jonny Craig, has created a One Take video for his song 'I Still Feel Her Pt.3' which is a very simple video, just following him around a house.

While this is very simple, there are more complicated One Take videos used in this genre. For example, a band I have previously made a post about, Motion City Soundtrack, made a One Take video for their song 'True Romance' where the first half is filmed in reverse, and the second half is shown in reverse

While this is a technically impressive type of video, I feel I would not be able to create a video in this style as it takes a large amount of precision and planning to get correct, and any mistakes ruins the entire take, and has to be restarted from the beginning. As much as I would like to create a One Take video I doubt it would be possible unless it was very simple.