The Pre-Product Process of a
Short Film & A Feature Film
Short Film- A short film is a piece of
production not long enough to be considered a feature film. The average time of
a short film estimates from anything 40 minutes or less.
Feature Film- A feature film is a full-length
motion picture with a running time averaging from 96 to 120 minutes long. A
feature film is the type of production that is most likely to be seen within
cinemas and be released on DVD and major streaming websites.
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Short Film
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Feature Film
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Lower Budget- As a 10-40 minute
video is not a long time. The money for Crew and equipment will have to be
restricted. Also, money for costume, actors and lighting will be much less as
they don’t require as much as feature films will. Actors will demand a lot
less money for performing in a short film, as short films don’t usually have
famous celebrity’s performing in them.
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Higher Budget- Because of the
length of a feature film the budget will be increasingly higher compared to
the budget for a short film. The equipment, crew and cast will be more
expensive for that of a short film. Feature films are usually guaranteed to
have somewhat, if not, largely well known actors in their productions.
Therefore they will have to spend more money on their actors as oppose to a
short film.
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Low Profit- A large
amount of small films struggle to make profit and produce no revenue.
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High Profit- Because the
higher budget and larger amount of advertisement on top of the many other
things that makes a feature film more successful profit wise.
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Advertisement- Short films with receive a lot less advertisement than feature
films. They’re likely for their short trailers to be shown on platforms such
as youtube or Instagram. And will receive very little media attention.
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Advertisement- Feature films however will receive a mass amount of attention.
Most forms of social media are likely to advertise these films. As well as TV
showing their trailers during their adverts, cinemas showing trailers &
Movie posters being shown on things like billboards.
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Audience- A short film
is highly likely to have less of an audience than a feature film. This is
because of the lack of platforms short films are show on. It is very rare
that a short film will be shown in cinemas, therefore they rely on platforms
such as yoputube and/or vimeo
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Audience- The audience
for a major motion picture can vary from any age, gender etc, all depending
on the type of audience the film is targeted at. As feature films are usually
shown in cinemas, no matter who the audience is a feature film will almost
certainly have large audience regardless of who that is.
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Time- Running from anywhere 40 minutes or less
(including credits) a short film’s screen play can consist of only 2-40
pages.
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Time- For any large amount of time (Average being
96-120 minutes) A feature film will consist of 80- 130 pages of screenplay
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Characters- Short films
only give the audience a slight glimpse of a character, making it hard to understand/sympathise/hate
or feel anything towards a character. Because they have such little time,
short scripts focus on core characters and the key concept of the film,
getting straight to the point
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Characters- Throughout
feature films the audience is often introduced to a character early on in a
film. Often, characters develop throughout the time giving the audience an
overall perspective of each independent character. Rather than just focusing
on the protagonist like short films do.
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Permits/legality - When producing a short film, they will have to worry a lot less
about copyright compared to major motion pictures. They will have less
scenes, use less music & film in less locations
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Permits/legality- Feature films will be subject to much more possible copyrights
compared to short films as they have much more of everything. They usually
have a whole soundtrack, film in multiple settings and a lot more scenes
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In summary there is a large
majority of differences between short and long feature films. The budget,
profit, advertisement, audience, time, characters & legality being few of
many. The difference between the two regarding money and level of
successfulness is a huge has a major gap. Lack of advertisement and feature
films ability to secure major and relevant actors being a main reason behind
it. This is the reason why feature films turn over a large profit. Much larger
than short films.
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