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 more loose form. - narrative and genre.
Narrative wise - short films can be much more flexible and subvert conventions because - audience don't have to wait as long for action since much shorter
If there are anticlimaxes - not as dissatisfying as if the films were long and spectator had to wait longer
If alternative/experimental/surrealist etc. short films are more suitable as more engaging to have short period of non-linear distorted narrative rather than 2 hours
Genre wise- films can be much more flexible because they are usually independent so do not belong to existing contexts- can exist alone - thus can be independent and more adventurous - niche audience so doesn't have to appeal to masses because usually have no budget so don't need commercial success.
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 more loose form. - narrative and genre.
Narrative wise - short films can be much more flexible and subvert conventions because - audience don't have to wait as long for action since much shorter
If there are anticlimaxes - not as dissatisfying as if the films were long and spectator had to wait longer
If alternative/experimental/surrealist etc. short films are more suitable as more engaging to have short period of non-linear distorted narrative rather than 2 hours
Genre wise- films can be much more flexible because they are usually independent so do not belong to existing contexts- can exist alone - thus can be independent and more adventurous - niche audience so doesn't have to appeal to masses because usually have no budget so don't need commercial success.
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