WHY MAKE SHORT FILMS?
Live your dreams as film-maker/ story-teller. Use the medium to express and voice your opinion/ message.
You can tell your story to the audiences in a short spend on time and it will be done before they want to flip channel: you can to captivate audiences with your story.
2. A showreel
To demonstrate your skills, creativity and to pursuit career in Media and Film industries( in this industries, showreel is as important as certificates; sometimes showreel is more important that certificate)
3. Partnerships/ Collaboration
Testing chemistry working with certain people to see if you can go on to collaborate on projects in the future.
4. Testing an idea
You have a feature film idea that you want to try out on a small scale first.
5. Money
Shoot your short film, screen it and use it to raise money to make the FEATURE film.
WHERE THE SHORT FILM WILL BE SCREENED?
1. Your front room
Many filmmakers start out by testing their ideas on family and friends.
2. A showreel
Proving to others that you have filmmaking skills and/or to persuade them to give you some funding to make another film.
3. The Internet / Youtube/ Vlog
Fastest way to screen tour short film and get feedback from a wide range of people, internationally.
4. Television
If your film is of a high quality, a television channel may screen it.
5. The cinema
Some cinemas also run short film events.
A great opportunity to get your film on the big screen, watched by an audience of industry people and by filmmaking peers.
