Short films can sometimes be more effective than feature films to get across a certain message. This is because a short film would only concentrate on one storyline which would be condensed into a film usually less than 15 minutes. A feature film however would have possibly 2 main storylines with sub-stories all going on at the same time, a feature film will not get the message across straight away but a short film usually would unless there is an unexpected twist at the end.
We looked on Youtube for our short films, Youtube is a good place to find short films because it is free to upload to and anyone can upload their attempts at short films. It is also easy and fast to find any particular short films we were looking for.
In preparation for us to make our own short film we looked at a few other short films made by professionals and also a few made by amateurs. Many of the short films we looked at had very little dialogue, this made us think that not using much dialouge in our own short film could help us build up the tension we want.
Here is a couple of short films we looked at:
Teeth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87AkewNcgwU
Strangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpjHSiQLPmA
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