Sunday, June 27, 2010

What Is A Short Film?





I have been analysing short films and what they contin as well as planning to create a short film however I have not actually looked up what makes a short film a short film. This is what I have found:



"any film that has a duration longer than one minute and shorter than 15 minutes."
"Come in a variety of genres from comedy to thriller"

"The definition dilemma arises when we overlook the fact that short film is not a genre description or category but rather a generic term used ever since the early days of cinema to describe all possible forms and genres of film. What makes short film interesting, though, is not its reduction to an indistinguishable format, but above all its hybrid variety. In the short film, elements of early cinema live on into the present."



"It encompasses both black-and-white and hand-coloured films, documentaries, fiction, experimental films, animation, dramas and melodramas, thrillers and horror films, slapstick and comedy, as well as commercials, cultural and educational films and artists films."

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