Shorts Research

Examples I have found which I thought to be influential were 'the black hole' from future shorts because it has an unexpected twist at the end and also likewise in the short 'Goodbye to the normals.' Goodbye to the normals has 64,928 views and the black hole has a huge 7,780,782 views. Viewers comments on the black hole have claimed it made themselves feel claustrophobic, they could tell the moral of the story was about greediness, it is amazing and wonderfully simple and there were many more positive comments. All of these comments prove that the film was high quality, very worthwhile and of importance to many who watched it.













As you can see from these films they all fit the general pattern of;
- being shorter than 10minutes.
- they are creative and experimental.
- use a small cast; usually 1 or 2 characters, with one of them being the main focus throughout. This may be because short film are too short to have complex characters and plots and so focusing on a small number of characters make it easier to follow the plot.
- they all have a twist to the plot, to form an interesting watch because they are so short.
- they tend to work upon the basis of an everyday situation so that their audience can relate to it, but then put a twist on it to make it often comical or surprising to watch. The shock factor of the twist is what makes them good to watch.
- My examples have all used everyday characters and everyday locations, again enabling the audience to relate to the situation which makes the twist in the plot pleasant to watch. It also makes it more believable.
- Due to short films being low budget, they have all got fairly plain and simple white writing for the titles and simple scrolling credits.
- They all use an ident at the beginning 'Future Shorts' in this case, clarifying what we are watching and where it has come from so that you can find more if you liked the first video you saw.