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What is short film? vs feature length films? Short films can be defined as 'a film with a running time of 40 minute or less, including all credits', according to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Genre - Categories for films based on semantic elements - m-e-s, editing, cinematography and lighting - and syntactic elements - narrative. Narrative - First defined by Aristotle as three part structures - Beginning, middle and end Then developed by theorists such as Todorov and Barthes into five act structures. From Seneca's plays to Barthes' films climaxed shifted from act three to four. now narratives generally follow the pattern of Exposition, development, complication, climax and then resolution. Encoding and decoding - Stuart Hall and film meanings By the creators and by the consumers The preferred reading, the alternative and the negotiated Endings : Open, closed and ambiguous. The length of short films and the niche audience allows for a m
SHORT FILM A-LEVEL COURSEWORK OCR The final product on youtube: https://youtu.be/VViO6732Q1Y SCRIPT Mia adjusting hair and clothes and talking to C behind camera Crystal: You ready? Mia: (puts paper down) Yeah. C: (muffled speaking) Mia glances at the camera CUT - she’s facing camera in same place C: So. How did you and Leo meet? M: Well.. (thinking and looks up at C) it- C: (whispers) Remember to talk to the camera M: oh, yeah. (turns to the camera) It was about two years ago. We were all at the park and I knew one of his friends- CUT to the memory when they met in park M V: We started hanging out as a group Mia turns. Then CUT to tracking of group of boys and close up of Leo Boy laughing then laughter fades into smile Mia: I was closest with him out of all our friends. We had a similar sense of humour so it was inevitable. CUT to group of girls and close up of Mia. She looks directly at him and smiles. CUT back to interv
