Representation
Short film is telling a story/ giving a message to the audience in the same way a feature length film would, but doing it a different way. Short can be seen as almost a differnt medium to feature length productions, which can be seen in everything from the structure of the film, to the characters.
Unlike a feature length film, short films are normally more focused on the message and the story rather than the characters. In a feature film we have time to see a characters backstory, and motivations, if the audience do not connect with them staright away, they may do so later on in the film. Short stories have no time for that, which expakins why many of the characters are very basic, almost like 'stock' characters. The core audience for short film is a less mainstream, typically more intelligent one, meaning the characters back story can be ambiguous and left up for the audienc to decide. Just like we can see in this short film, Still Life:
We don't the know the motivactions are reasoning behind why the character is crzzy, but we can make a guess.
The ideology of the short film is that, there does not have to be too much informationj behind the charcters and their reasoning, as long as the audience can understand the main message behind the film, the characters do not matter that much.
One main difference between feature length and short films, is that the audience is expected to know that with a short film, there may not be a very clear story; it doesn't follow conventions, you never know what to expect with a short film.
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