feature film to short film

From analysing both feature films and short films i have seen both similarities and differences. A short film has to engage and draw the audience in straight away because of the time limit, therefore the use of camera and editing is developed and more intricate to change the style within the first few seconds. Each short film is different and has unique narratives however a common convention that runs throughout is its pace of the narrative, the story has to be simplistic and easy to understand because the characters and emotions have to portrayed to the audience almost instantly within each scene. feature films have a big budget and can take a longer time to introduce both characters and narrative. By looking at The Italian Job directed by peter collinson we can see that the extract opens with a extreme long shot to establish location and a montarge of shots as a red race car meanders up a italian mountain side, this particular scene takes roughly two minutes thirty seconds for a shot film this is a long time period and as a title sequence is impossible to do simply because of the time limit. In contrast lovefield directed by Mathieu Ratthe, the feature takes 1.30 seconds to reveal to the audience some action and characters and finishes with in 5 minuets ,a common time that most short film directors use, this is a full minute shorted than The Italian Job which only shows titles for the first 2 - 3 minutes.

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