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Storyboard (ROUGH) | Rendezvous

What is a Short Film? | Kiera Tolhurst

WHAT IS A SHORT FILM? A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where the boundary is drawn, however the Academy of Motion Picture defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including credits."  Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and produced by independent filmmakers with a low budget.  EXAMPLE OF A POPULAR SHORT FILM On the website IMDB, it states that the most popular short film on record is "Tangled Ever After", which has a running time of only six minutes. The reason for it's success is due to the short film's sequel to the original Disney film, "Tangled" which earned a total gross of $200, 821, 936. Because the characters were so engaging and the story-line so enjoyable, when the film finished at a marriage proposal, many people were eager to watch the six minute sequel which fol

Possible Distributor

Screen Gems Screen Gems is an American film production and distribution studio that is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. It has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation. Many of its releases are of the horror, thriller, action, comedy and urban genres . Screen Gems is the subsidiary of the Big Six conglomerate Sony and therefore is highly professional in the production and distribution of their films and could receive a larger budget than other Independent distributors and producers due to it's giant parent company.    Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (known simply as Sony Pictures and abbreviated as SPE) is an American entertainment company that produces and distributes films through multiple platforms. Its group sales in the fiscal year 2015 (April 2015 – March 2016) has been reported to be of $8.3 billion further suggesting that due to Screen Gems being a subsidi

Analysing a Film Poster | Amber Smales

Analysis of a film poster from ambsmales  

Restricted and Unrestricted Narration

Restricted and Unrestricted Narration is where a film industry will tell a story however can change the tension levels of the film and the surprise element by varying between restricted and unrestricted narration. Restricted Narration is where the producer of the film hides certain information from the audience so that the outcome and ending events of the sequence are made more surprising as the audience aren't aware of certain facts within the film and because of this, the ending is more impactful and effective. Moreover, due to not all of the information being clear and portrayed in the film, the build up towards the events ending the film are made more tense and gripping to the audience. Unrestricted Narration is where the producers of the film don't hide any information from the audience and therefore the ending is more clear and anticipated. Despite the fact there are no hidden surprises within the journey, the build up can still build tension and grip the audience a