What is a short film?
A short film is a motion picture that is not long enough to be considered as a feature length film. A feature length film normally consists of 1 hour and a half worth of footage where as a short film is anything that is 40 minutes or less. Short films first originated in the 1920's and became very popular as people could heavily relate to the story due to the realistic events happening in the film and the realism of the main characters.
Short films focus on real life problems and how the characters overcome them or how the problem overshadows the character. Some of these issues are: depression, love, or financial problems. This juxtaposes from the feature length genres as feature length films have a broad range of genres to attract a wide variety of audiences. Additionally, because short films focus on real life problems and also tragedies, this attracts a smaller more niche audience to attract a targeted and specific audience.
Despite short films not being as popular as feature length films, they still receive a lot of recognition as there are a lot of short film festivals where producers showcase their films and earn awards. In addition to this, the Oscars and the BAFTA's award trophies for the best short film and best animated short film to emphasise how important short films are. Furthermore if a short film becomes extremely successful they may get funding from a production company to transform their short film into a full length feature film. An example of this is Whiplash as they won many awards for the best short film and the best director at the Sundance film festival, that Sony bought the rights of producing a feature length film of Whiplash for $3 million. This lead to Whiplash breaking box office figures for a short film transforming into a feature length film and all of the success wouldn't have been possible without the short film version of Whiplash.
Short films focus on real life problems and how the characters overcome them or how the problem overshadows the character. Some of these issues are: depression, love, or financial problems. This juxtaposes from the feature length genres as feature length films have a broad range of genres to attract a wide variety of audiences. Additionally, because short films focus on real life problems and also tragedies, this attracts a smaller more niche audience to attract a targeted and specific audience.
Despite short films not being as popular as feature length films, they still receive a lot of recognition as there are a lot of short film festivals where producers showcase their films and earn awards. In addition to this, the Oscars and the BAFTA's award trophies for the best short film and best animated short film to emphasise how important short films are. Furthermore if a short film becomes extremely successful they may get funding from a production company to transform their short film into a full length feature film. An example of this is Whiplash as they won many awards for the best short film and the best director at the Sundance film festival, that Sony bought the rights of producing a feature length film of Whiplash for $3 million. This lead to Whiplash breaking box office figures for a short film transforming into a feature length film and all of the success wouldn't have been possible without the short film version of Whiplash.
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