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...
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