Structure & Length

By Adam Burton

The Short Film

• When compared to existing short films, my product is extremely conventional. Only lasting approximately five minutes the length of my product is very typical and the majority of al low budget short films lay within the fifteen minute period. However once the idents and ending credits have been removed it is slightly shorter than short films conventionally are. Despite my plot being complicated the narrative of the short film is relatively simple therefore there is no need for a longer film.

Structure

• When planning the narrative arc of my short film, I considered a various amount of structures previously used by writers and film producers. I replicated the ‘The Three Act Structure’ and other generic theories to develop my film and this resulted in linear single stranded narrative. Purely based upon structure it could be argued that my short film resembles a text a company such as Disney would create, the narrative follows a basic progression of events leading to a climax. However at this point the ‘issue’ presented throughout is not concluded and therefore the ending of my short film could be seen as unconventional when compared to other texts which share the a similar structure.