Telling Lies

Telling lies is a short film, the film consists of only sound and text to tell the story. Telling lies was made in 2000. Telling Lies is a film that highlights how offten people lie to each other. The short consistis of a number of telephone converstaions, as the lies are told the truth appears on the screen in white text.

I feel the main issuse behind the film is that everyone lies, even the people closest to you. Although you can always trust your mum. throughout the coversataions the mother is the only person not to lie, even though the her son is lieing to her. I really like the idea behind the film, i feel that this film highlights what we all think is happening when we're on the phone.

I feel that the structure of the narrative allows the audience to pick whos side they are on. I also feel that the narravtive is the foundations of the idea, as it creates an interesting story which the audience can relate to. I think that the use of text channenges the auduience to create faces for the charcters and create the scene there talking about. I feel because of this the film is very creative and the idea is genius. Although the idea has recently been popularised by the show the phone jacker.

DepicT!

Depict is an international short film competition which challenges filmmakers to create super-shorts of under 90 seconds. It has been running since 1998 and is a part of Encounters Short Film Festival.

Depict believe that creating an engaging and imaginative short in such a small amount of time. Challenges its filmmakers ability and pushes there skills to the limit. Depict have a partnership with British film festival encounters in which they have there own exhibit for the luck few film makers which get shortlisted. Depict see this as a go way to promote and show case there film makers. Winning films have generally gone on to be shown all over world at a number of film festivals.

Atom

Is a video sharing website which specialises in comedy. The website is an award winning broadband network offering short subject films and animations. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi, until it was the subject of a buyout by MTV in 2006. One of atoms biggest names was the independent series called angry kid, which has a huge online fan base. After the buyout atom joined a partnership with comedy central to have a weekly show, which would showcase the best of short films and animations on the website.

Atom shows a mix of both mainstream and indie media although the company originally specialised in indie media, but ever since its buyout by MTV the amount of indie media has began to shrink. Atom films have been around for over ten years looking for amazing comedy. Atoms formula for creating amazing shows is simple “Find talented people, make them famous across the Web and beyond, and pay them well”. Overall I feel the website is a good way to showcase comic work. The website has a number of followers and fans both on it twitter and facebook pages.

BBC Film Network

The BBC Film Network, is a website which is run by the bbc and showcases short films from aspiring directors. The website allows people to watch and comment on the short films which are shown on the website. The web site shows a number of short films, from a number of genres. Which include Drama, Animation, Comedy, Music, Documentary and artist's moving image.

All of the videos which appear on the web site have been funded by a number of companies and because of that they are of very high quailty. Most of the videos are between 3 and 15 miniutes in duration. The website also has a lot of inforamtion on how to produce a short film, with pages of on how to find funding to how to submit your final piece. The website also has a number of interviews with big hollywood actors about how they got to where they are and talking about there new films. Many of the films on the website have won awards.

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chris Waitt is also the director of the short film. I feel the main reason the film works well is the length, i feel that the film is just the right length and it allows the audience to relate with the main charcter. I like the way the film has been written as it doesnt dwel of certian scenes and allows the audience to relate and get on the main characters side.

Short Film Festivals

Short film festivals are one of the only ways where short films are shown on the big screen to big audiences. Short film festivals have a huge impact on the short film industry as they can raise the profile of aspiring directors, many of the big film production companies send out talent scouts to find the next big star.
One of the most famous short film festivals in the world is called 'Encounters'. Encounters is a short film festival which celebrates new talent in filmmaking and provides a platform for aspiring filmmakers to showcase there work. Encounters began back in 1995 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, back then the festival was called brief encounters and was originally planned to be a one of event. But since 1995 the festival has grown and now has a huge following across the world. In 2001 the short film festival was joined by animated encounters which showed animated short films. Animated encounters was the first short film festival for animation, which celebrated, creativity, talent and skills of animators. Encounters film festival usually runs during November each year and takes place in Bristol.

Short film festivals like encounters have a huge impact on the short film industry, film festivals allow directors to get there work out there. It allows there work to be seen by big audiences of people who are passionate about film as they are. Short film festivals have been a huge success across the world. In 2007 and 2008 encounters sold out all spaces, and had nearly double the amount of film submissions on there previous year.
Other short film festivals include, The London Short Film Festival and The LA Short fest.

Free Cinema

Free cinema was a documentry film that emergered in england during the 1950's. Free cinema was the term originally given to six programmes which were shown at the national film theatre between 1956 and 1959. Three of the six programmes were put together by a group of young film makers and critics.The three other programmes introduced the work of foreign filmmakers, including Roman Polanski, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.

Free cinema was created due to pargmatic reasons, a group of young film makers throught it was to hard to showcase there work, so they joined there films togeather to create programmes which would be shown at the national film theatre in london. The term free cinema came about because the film makers believed that the term is a reference to the films having been made free from the pressures of the box-office or the demands of propaganda. free cinema and its followers stood for a new attitude to filmmaking, rejecting the orthodox and conservatism of both the mainstream British cinema and the dominant documentary tradition initiated by John Grierson in the 1930s.