![]() To get top the next screening and to clean out the cinema - so you can't show four 30 minute films.Īnother great thing about a film that runs in that 10 minute range is that if can be used to fill in time Which would you rather do - show threeģ0 minute short films or eleven 10 minute short films? You need time between showings for the festival goers The larger the audience if the filmmakers and their friends show up. You can fit in the 2 hour block, the more variety at the festival and (as Elliot from Raindance once said) With features filling the 2 hours and a block of short films running just under 2 hours. Usually the festival is in 2 hour blocks, I really liked the speed dating film and am still haunted by the twist atĪnother reason why shorter is better: programming films is easier if the film is 10 minutes or less.Ī film festival is made up of features and blocks of short films. (Click on "The Finalists" then click on "2004 Finalists" to see Steve's film)Ĭheck out the other 15 second short films on the site - and see just how much story you can fit Guy who took my big two day class, Steve Robinson with his short HAVE I PASSED? Back in 2004 the winner of the competition was written by a The amount of video time on a cell phone. The story needs to beĬonstantly evolving! Things need to be happening all the time.īut wait! Can you tell a story in 10 minutes? Is that even enough time? Part of the Raindance Filmįestival every year is the Nokia 15 Second Film Festival. ![]() A short has no time to waste, no time to coast. A feature script might be able to "coast" forward on previous informationįor a page because there are 110 page. This means a 3 minute short is constantly giving You want to make sure every *second* counts in a short. The short needs to last as long as the story lasts -Īnd not a second longer! One of the Raindance shorts went on *forever* - and it was only 3 minutes long! Mean your film has to be that long - it can be one minute. Get in, get it done, get out! Don't over-stay your welcome! Just because the *limit* is 3.5 minutes doesn't and all of his films are *too long* at 3.5 minutes. Things, where the movie has to be 3.5 minutes or less. My friend John enters these 24 hour film challenge Here are some of his ides about shortįrederick says keep it at 10 minutes or less, and I agree. (I think at Santa Fe) and many of the things in his book are helpful. There's also a book by Frederick Levy on breaking in with short films. Where I reviewed almost *every* short I saw at the festival, and some of the things If you haven't read my Raindance Diary from 2004 I've also been on filmįest juries where I had to watch and judge hundreds of short films. I have written and directed a bunch of shorts, and even won some awards for them. But how do you write a short film? Do they haveģ acts? And if they do have 3 acts, what do you do about that Syd Field thing about Act 1 ending halfwayĭown page 27 if you only have a 10 page script? Though it's more likely they'll find a directing job for you off a short than a writing job. You may be interested in writing and directing some short films - these are great "calling cards" andĮxecutives who are too busy to read your 110 page script may be able to find the time to watch your 10 These were all fun to make - and I actually met a girl and fell in loveĪnd we ended up in a suburban house with three dogs and so many domestic expenses that I had to stop makingġ6mm films and focus on writing because it was cheaper. That had parodies of everything from the movie CARRIE to my classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING LIFE INSURANCE Later I did a sequel, MONDO SHORTS: UNDERWEAR OF THE WORLD Which opened with titles over my underwear. That parodied all of the films we were forced to watch in the class called THE SHORTS OF BILL MARTELL I had a Super 8mm camera by then, and made an epic 30 minute movie In my Community College film appreciation class we had The grass was supposed to be water and the alligator was paper mache.Įventually I grew older, more sophisticated, and continued to make 8mm films in high school as a way to Up my paper route money and buy a roll of film and make little film starring my little brother aboutĪlligators in our back yard. That's actually how I started out - my parents had an 8mm home movie camera and I would save Because in my youth I wrote and directed a bunch of Yes, I actually used to use that as a pick up line. Martell - Short ScriptsīIZ TIP TUESDAY: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MY SHORTS? Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C.
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