How Short Films Are Consumed...

So in order to create a successful short film, I must explore how shorts films actually are consumed therefore allowing me to get an idea of where people may view my short film. Especially now that technology has developed alot of short films are consumed via the Internet and sites such as BBC film network (www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/) and virgin media shorts (www.virginmediashorts.co.uk) and off course Youtube where it feels like anything and everything can be accessed (http://www.youtube.com/user/futureshorts). However there are also short film festivals, that take place in order to get up and coming film makers recognised and awarded for their talents, such as The Very Short International Film Festival (http://www.vsiff.com/shortfilms.html), London Short Film Festival (http://shortfilms.org.uk/) , Futures Shorts Festival associated with their network of short films programme (http://www.futureshorts.com/) and Bang Short Film Festival (http://www.bangshortfilmfestival.com/).

The London Short Film Festival

 

 

The film festival is now in its 10th year, and is recognised as the premier UK show-case for cutting edge UK independent films, demonstrating the best of the country's raw young creative talent. Originally it was formed as the Halloween Short Film Festival in 2003, however it was in 2008 that it was re-branded as London's Short Film Festival, and it has been growing year-on-year. In 2011, over 5000 tickets were sold, with over 220 films being screened. The Times quoted it as "A London bastion of cutting-edge short films and multimedia".

 

Future Shorts Festival

 

 

Future Shorts is universally the largest short film network, and it is producer of the Future Shorts Festival. It is the biggest pop up film festival, it show cases the most exciting short films from around the world. It has the aim of breaking boundaries, borders and conventions to connect a global audience to the world's best short films, in order to have a true celebration of cinema. Above is a film created in order to appeal to new filmmakers to join future shorts.

 

Bang Short Film Festival

 

 

It was set up in 1999 by filmmakers Bowyer, Cooke and Robertson, and was created to provide non-competitive, inclusive platform on which local filmmakers are able see both their work and others in a quality cinema environment. It started off as just one section to the festival which was the main event , but it has now expanded to 9 sections which screen a variety of genres (main event, bangimation, crash/bang/wallop, community, mu-sic vid-e-o, rights in motion, middle east, the source and hedge).