- Less scenes but still illustrates the purpose of the film as well as any feature length film story.
- Has to be very concise and direct.
- Smaller budget (Micro budget £1000, other borough like wands worth ranging about £1- 5K, digital short budget 5-10K.
- Much more experimental in their form, generally they are aimed at niche audiences.
- Most short follow the beginning, middle and end tradition.
- Short film are very compacted and compressed.
- No A-list celebrities in short films.
- Less well known talents.
- Far simpler setups.
- Short film contains an internal logic. It can push the envelope/boundaries. Happens in short before feature.
- More risk is taken in short films when compared to a feature film.
- Not many characters needed or even none. Graphics can be used the whole way.
- Importance of the title.
Notes on
“The Man with the Beautiful Eyes”
The man with the beautiful eyes
Made in 1999 (Initial release:
2000)
Director: Jonathan Hodgsom
- Poetry use on film.
- Very unique compared to other short films. It is visually portrayed with the use of paint, ink, and collage.
- Begins dreamlike and turns out to be more like a bad dream as the grown-ups fears and prejudices transform a residential community safe house of innocence into some place awful and frightening.
- The overall film is based on discrimination/prejudice.
Notes on “About a girl”
About a girl
Made in 2001
Director: Brian Percival
- This short film raise our regard for distinctive ideologies.
- It is a fusion of a physical and a metaphorical journey.
- The short film likewise displays the topic, appearance vs reality.
- This movie gives out a sense of realism; linking to the genre social-realism.
Notes on “Soft”
Soft
Made in 2006
Simon Ellis
- A story that tells a hard story of viciousness and reprisal.
- Different in a way that it is against the norm; usually parents help children, in this case it happens vice versa.
- Relevant in a modern society.
- This film was not just about roughness but rather about something more profound, darker, more unsayable: a trepidation of our children, and older individual's apprehension and hate of the youthful.
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