Michel Gondry

We tend to associate web series with terms like "low-budget" or "mumblecore," which implies a level of impromptu haphazardness one expects from high school kids messing around with dad's camera after school. Nothing could be further from the case with "One Take Movies," a series by Lorne Michael-backed comedy site Above Average. As the name implies, the mini-films--whimsical parodies of genres like "The Disaster Movie" or "The Heist Movie"--are all shot in one continuous take, a particularly tricky challenge when having to show an asteroid destroying the earth or a superhero battling robots.