What is a short film?

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". 

In February, Eila, Charlie, Richard and myself will be making a short film of around 5 minutes. I am hoping to make it very eventful and suspenseful. We are all very excited to start our film and to start the planning. 


Partly Cloudy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyJQEIsMt0 

This is a 5 minute short film about a cloud who is not like the rest. All clouds produced baby animals. The normal clouds produce cute, fluffy animals like kittens, puppies, chicks, etc. Then a stork (type of bird) comes and collects the animals and takes them down to the correct family. However, the thundercloud does not produce the 'cute' animals, instead animals like crocodiles and hedgehogs are produced which cause pain to the stork. The stork comes back to the thundercloud in worse shape than before until the thundercloud produces a shark, which then makes the stork fly away to another cloud that normally produces cute animals. The thundercloud understandably gets very sad until the stork comes back with some safety equipment and takes the shark, which shows the thundercloud the stork won't leave no matter how different the thundercloud is or what is produced. I love this short film as it has such a sweet message. 


Day and Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJz_noKP-Bw

This is also a 5 minute short film. It is about the comparison between animated characters that one experiences day time and the other experiences night time. They show each other their different worlds, such as a casino during the day thats very dull and empty until the night character jumps in front which shows the casino all lit up and very busy. They constantly jump back in forth of each other to show the caparison on what they see. Until the end where the sun sets on the day time character and then sun rises on the night time character, which makes them swap places and finally experience what the other did. It was very cleverly done and showed the sweet friendship between the two characters.