The OCR brief asks you to produce:
SHORT FILM and:
• Poster
• Film magazine review page
Existing media starting points
The UK Film council’s Digital Shorts project (www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/shortfilms)
Shane Meadows’ collection of short films (www.channel4.com/film/makingmovies/microsites/S/shaneworld_main.jsp)
Productions tips from OCR
Short films are often a ‘laboratory for experimentation and innovation’ (Quy 2008:39) rather than just a shorter version of conventional film making
This means you should not be afraid to take risks with your concept and the filming techniques that you use
Short films are now a booming medium because of digital technology which means you can find audience through web streaming (you-tube etc)
Go to www.depict.org to see a project challenging the public to create super shorts
Short films go very well with converging technologies see the arts council funded www.onedotzero.com for examples of computer generated short films
Here is Simon Quy (a teacher trainer specialised in media) summary of the importance of the medium
If the feature film has parallels with the novel, then the short film might be considered as the literary equivalent of the poem or short story. The best short films are crystalline creations of precise, prismatic intensity, offering the careful ‘refinement’ of the director’s idea, the distilled essences of his/her imagination
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