What is a short film

 

 

What is a short film?

A short film comes in many forms,

 

Music video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adverts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cartoons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Defined by length

 

• Feature length films are usually 90-120 minutes

• Short film should be no longer than 40 minutes

• Short films are long films that finish earlier

• Indicating that such films need to imply more than they can show in their limited screen time.

 

Defined by content

 

• The best short films are considered to be precise and intense

• A good idea sufficiently told

• An effective realisation of one particular idea

• A depiction of a carefully considered emotion or the capture of  a particular moment

 

Defined by form

• Same variety and diversity that feature length films provide

• Fiction or none fiction

• Flexibility of the short film is its greatest asset

• Crosses lots of boudries

 

Defined as vocational

• Experimental and innovation

• Short film production can lead producers, actors directors into feature length films therefore it’s a great way to get talented people noticed.

• Foot in the door

• Short film initiatives by uk film council

• Support budget film makers

 

Defined by other

 

• Defined by whats its not

• Unfairly compared to dominant feature length films

• Long associated with alternative filmmaking both in terms of its content and freedom of expression

Away from constant of industrial production