Conventions of a short film

Charcaters - Short films uaually keep characters to a minimum of about 2/3 because they don't have time to create deep back story and history into their lifestyle, this allows the audience to relate to them easily in a short amount of time.


Twist - These films are already very short and don't have the time to create any major storline so without a twist short films would be very dull and uninteresting.


Budget - Short films typically have a low budget because they don't need many actors or use many locations. Also if the actors are particuarly interested in the film, they will work for little or no money making the directors have to pay even less to generate their ideas.


Length - Short films usually last to a maximum of 35 minutes. If the films were any longer they would be named as feature length.


Situation - They usually take an everyday situation and flip it on its head. This again makes the film interesting and intigues the audience.


Todorov - Todorovs theory of equilibrium is typically applied.
                 Equilibrium - Everything is normal
                 Diequilibrium - A problme occurs
                 New Equilibrium - Problme is solved, Everthing is back to normal; However a change is              noticable.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Evaluation - what have you learned from your audience feedback?

As our film was aimed at a younger generation, we decided to have an audience watch our final product that fit into this category because this would help us to know if the film we had created was successful in what we wanted to achieve overall. I asked a group of three friends between the ages of 16 - 18 to watch a give us some feedback on what they thought about it. They were able to give us positive comments and also some constructive criticism which enabled us to reflect back on our work and make some improvements according to what our audience thought. One of the first comments we had was: "I really enjoyed the way you used daily life and turned it into a psychological horror basing it around mental illness because it was more relatable compared to some other horror movies I have seen because they are always very non naturalistic and exaggerated whereas yours shows exactly what someone with schizophrenia might go through everyday. I did like the way you also filmed some o...
Read more

slasher

The  slasher film  (sometimes referred to as bodycount  films  and dead teenager movies) is a sub- genre  of horror  film  typically involving a psychopathic killer (sometimes wearing a mask) who stalks and graphically murders a series of adolescent victims in a typically random , unprovoked fashion.  Psycho is a seminal slasher because throughout the film there is frequent violent murders with use of knives and dangerous weapons. It set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behaviour and sexuality in American films. It was also an early example of a slasher film genre.
Read more

Tim Burton

Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is well known for producing dark, eccentric and quirky fantasy films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and A nightmare before christmas. As a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound. One of Tim Burtons most famous works, Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet street, blends explicit gore and Broadway tunes to create a bizarre and anomalous film which reflects his style when producing and directing. As well as his creations having a peculiar style he tries to show this through his characters. For example the mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland. The role is made for someone that can portray him as insane and fanatical.
Read more