To further our short film knowledge as a group we were luckily enough to visit the European Independent Film Festival in Paris.
During this festival we watched a selection of short films, feature films, music videos, documentaries and animations from both established and upcoming directors. This widened my knowledge of the short and independent industry as we had access to the film producers and directors.
As a media student this made me realise that people create short films for many different reasons from personal to business or to even portray a message, for example the short film 'Smashed' I annotated at the beginning of the year had a message which was encoded to the audience by the smashed egg on the pavement in the establishing shot the egg represented the idea of broken lives, pregnancy and fertility.
Occasionally short films are created to show off an unknown directors skills, once completed the director will send off their work to film festivals, or large film companies in hope that their work will be liked and further distributed. However not all short films have to be for business a large number of people create short films for simply fun and enjoyment.
Funding for short films often depend on the reason behind making it. Short films may receive funding from the UK film council/British film institute or even National screen agencies. The Government may fund a short film if they wish to raise awareness of a certain cause or message this is also similar with Charities. A fairly new method of showing short films is competitions, film festivals or production schemes. These allow mainly young and undiscovered film directors to be highlighted and to show off work meaning they will receive positive and negative criticism.
Once an directors work has been noticed distributors are then brought into the equation they are normally individuals or an separate organisation that will hopefully share the work and will try to create as much exposure for the film as possible whether this is at film festivals such as ECU or even television, radio or the most common way online. For this stage to happen the film has to abide certain rules in order to be distributed such as copyright so an agreement is put in place negotiating the profit outcome and the ownership of the film.
Occasionally short films are created to show off an unknown directors skills, once completed the director will send off their work to film festivals, or large film companies in hope that their work will be liked and further distributed. However not all short films have to be for business a large number of people create short films for simply fun and enjoyment.
Funding for short films often depend on the reason behind making it. Short films may receive funding from the UK film council/British film institute or even National screen agencies. The Government may fund a short film if they wish to raise awareness of a certain cause or message this is also similar with Charities. A fairly new method of showing short films is competitions, film festivals or production schemes. These allow mainly young and undiscovered film directors to be highlighted and to show off work meaning they will receive positive and negative criticism.
Once an directors work has been noticed distributors are then brought into the equation they are normally individuals or an separate organisation that will hopefully share the work and will try to create as much exposure for the film as possible whether this is at film festivals such as ECU or even television, radio or the most common way online. For this stage to happen the film has to abide certain rules in order to be distributed such as copyright so an agreement is put in place negotiating the profit outcome and the ownership of the film.