What Is a Short Film?

What Is a Short Film? An interesting question, a short film can last from 3.5 minutes to 45 minutes all depending on what it is that we're watching and the difficulties that are behind the plot.
Short Films are to be simple but enjoyable.

Short films are often created by professional and amateur film makers and are usually for non profit, either with a low budget, no budget at all, and in rare cases big budgets. Short films are usually funded by film grants, non profit organizations, sponsor, or out of pocket funds.

Although they are lower in status than a feature film some of the worlds best comedians moved up from shorts to features such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and buster Keaton.

This short film both features Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

In the 1920's people would have paid to see a movie but before and/or after the movie they would have seen up to 5 shorts including a newsreel.
this became incredibly popular in the 30's as people would have depended on the comedy that came with the shorts, comedy was the most common genre to create a short film in.

Later shorts included the works of Walt Disney and Warner Brother cartoons seen below:

This is one of Walt Disney's Shorts made in 1938 Ferdinand The Bull an Oscar Winning short!

This is one of Warner Bros shorts the Looney Tunes.

Since then the world has evolved and with it technology people now depend on the interne to broadcast their short films via YouTube and Vimeo. The BBC filmmakers site focus on showing curated shorts.

Nowadays shorts are starting to become popular with certain film company's like Disney Pixar who made these films:

This is La Luna by Walt Disney and it was played just before certain Disney movies like Brave and Cars etc.



Experimenting With Photoshop

 

 

 

We were taught the how to use Adobe Photoshop previously for our AS film opening. But this year we had then done a more advanced couple of classes when we learnt how to use different tools that would be more useful with our A2 short film this year.

 

My favourite tool was the lasso tool it was so useful to cut those corner and it saved time as it automatically knew the shape of the object you wanted and therefore we were able to cut it out quicker.

 

The main thing that I struggled with was checking that I had made a new layer and if I hadn't to then go and make that extra layer for some people it would have been quick and easy but for me I had to keep referring to the noes I had taken during the presentation previously this took up a lot of my time and it was not helpful at all in finishing projects.

 

This little guy above though is one of my finished projects used with only natural pictures the eyes are black eyed beans the arms and mouth are sticks cut down to a suitable length for the body and the body is obviously a type of wild mushroom. I then copied it onto a bridge in the forest and my character came to life.

 

Although the classes had helped me I thought that I just needed a bit more help so I went onto YOU TUBE and found a few helpful tutorials this is just one of them.

 

                                    

This ones just about the basics but there are plenty of others that concentrate on certain parts of Photoshop and about certain tools as well.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Adobe Photoshop and even though it took time in using it I cannot wait to start using it for my coursework.