After Hours: Conventions of Short Films
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Our film uses typical thriller conventions like setting in a secluded forest to create mystery and tension. However, we challenge conventions by making the antagonist a teenage girl rather than the usual middle-aged male. We also film in broad daylight rather than darkness. We aim to distribute to studios like Lionsgate, New Line, and Universal that frequently distribute popular thrillers. Our target audience is 15-30 year olds, as films with similar unconventional aspects like Hard Candy and Orphan appealed to this group. We have learned new technologies like using a Canon DSLR camera and programs like Garageband and Photoshop to film, edit, and promote our project.Presentation1
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This document contains the responses to four evaluation questions about a short thriller film opening created by the author's group. In response to the first question, the author explains that their opening uses conventions common to thrillers like building suspense around an antagonist's plans for revenge. They also felt their editing and techniques matched professional quality. For the second question, the author acknowledges limitations due to the short length but notes the three characters were portrayed as typical black teenagers, with potential issues around stereotyping the antagonist. In response to distributing the film, the author expresses a desire to partner with a major studio for widespread promotion and profit. Finally, they discuss attracting and engaging their target audience through an exciting storyline, filming techniques, and positive feedbackFinal evaluation presentation part 3
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This document presents answers to evaluation questions about a student media project.
1) The student's thriller opening uses conventions from professional thrillers like suspense to build anticipation about what an antagonist will do for revenge. It also uses techniques like point-of-view shots that are seen in real thriller films.
2) The short film only included 3 black characters - a "thug" antagonist, and protagonist and antagonist portrayed as typical black teenagers. This could perpetuate stereotypes about black people being violent.
3) Allowing a major studio to distribute the film could lead to worldwide promotion and increased profits since films with similar storylines that are distributed widely tend to do well financially.
4) TheTarget audience ccr
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After Hours: Conventions of Short Films
- 1. FOLLOWING THE CONVENTIONS O F SHORT FILMS
- 2. TIMINGS Short films are typically between 5-20 minutes long, although there tends to be a rule which states that people become put off watching a short film if the time extends to over 12 minutes. After Hours is 18 minute long film, meaning that, although we are following the conventions of short films, we are posing a risk to ourselves in which the audience may be deferred by the length before even turning on. To ensure that our film was successful, we had to be extremely harsh on ourselves whist editing: is there a section where your interest drops? Does the film instantly engage its audience? These questions were extremely important to ask ourselves as the length of the film would become severely noticeable if there was any point in which the interest declined. Whilst editing, there were a few sections in which I thought that the level of interest may have dropped in our audience. To address this issue, I had to make the call on how to increase the energy of the scene. Occasionally, I achieved this through adding in music, changing the pace of the edit or boosting the overall look of the shot through its colour balance.
- 3. SIMPLIFYING THINGS Another main convention of short films is the necessity to keep things simple: no convoluted plot that will lose the audiences engagement not too many characters that the audience is expected to wrap their heads around no tricky subplots to attempt to weave into your storyline. The reasoning for this convention is due to the lack of time you are given in short films. Truthfully you have a maximum of 20 minutes to tell your story. You simply dont have time to be complicating things by aiming to tell a 90 minute tale in less than a fifth of the time. We followed this convention by keeping our short film extremely simple, whilst keeping the interesting themes and messages in the nuances of the films presentation to ensure that the plotline did not come across as being too childish or basic. When we analyse After Hours, we initially see a film which follows the life of one character, Don Walters, and how he deals with being locked inside a school overnight. Nonetheless, when we look into the film further, we see the journey he takes: transforming from a cynical and introverted man who only cares for the exclusive relationship he has with his daughter, into the much more open-minded and self- accepting man at the end of the film who understands that he has the capability to be happy and believes that he deserves it.
- 4. ADDRESSING YOUR AUDIENCE The general stereotype for audiences of short films follow these demographics: - Social Grade of A to C1, or unemployed students who have come from an A to C1 upbringing - Succeeders or Aspirers people who are already in the business and are looking for talent that they can snatch up, or creative people who aspire to make it into the industry and are looking for inspiration. - Stereotypically British due to the representation of short films by British film festivals and independent companies in the UK. With these demographics in mind, I believe our film has successfully appealed to our target audience as the characters represented in the film are of the same A to C1 demographic and therefore the audience should be able to identify with the action on screen closely. Additionally, our film is very British in its nature, identifying with everyday British culture as it is set in a typical public school and equally, it deals with the problems in family relationships that are common to modern British lifestyles.
- 5. CONCEPTUAL CONVENTIONS The conceptual conventions of short films are as follows: - Normalistic setting, characters and plotline short films tend to be realistic and believable - One main protagonist throughout the film - A plotline twist to make the film more exciting and engaging for the audience - No or very little CGI, including explosions, fantasy or magic - Basic equipment is used to film - Often narrators are used to help tell the story Our film follows all of these conventions due to our budget and the equipment available to us.