Tuesday, 2 February 2010

History of Film Continued

After the inventors of film, experimental directors and artist using film as part of Avant Garde the next group of people to use short film as a channel to express emotions and to get across a message to a wider audience were activists. Feminists, Green peace, animal rights and other activist groups used film to showcase effective footage which carries a message with hope that they will change its audience’s perspective on the relevant political subject. Towards modern time short film uses all of the previous techniques and with no written codes and conventions or required budget anyone can write and direct a short film. Nowadays I believe short films use some if not all of the factors short film has gained and used to evolve since the beginning of film, modern day directors and aspiring directors experiment with short film to showcase new and exciting concepts with as much creativity as possible much like Avant Guarde and classic shorts directed by Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese were used to experiment with film. Many modern day shorts also tackle social and political issues with the contents of their short films a technique foreseen by video activism.

From the history of short film I think it is clear that the short film industry has evolved rapidly much like other aspects of film media however in my view short film is slightly ahead of mainstream/ feature length film this is down to the lack of constraints that mainstream films are tied back by and also believe that mainstream film relies on the short film industry for its technology and creativity, many ideas, shots and techniques used in feature length film today originally started from short films and therefore as long as there is film there will be short film to inevitably push the boundaries of the industry.

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