Investigating Different Narrative Conventions In Short Film (Planning)

Type? Short films such as Blinky introduce horror into the narrative. Though only 10 minutes long it had the ability to implement a crescendo in tension. The Narrative itself was a simple horror, with explicit foreshadowing and violence.

Another successful short film that increased in tension was The Gunfighter, but the genre was different. It was a western/comedy. The tone and mood of the Narrative was different in that more light-hearted that Blinky, but the running length was roughly the same. The Narrative was constant at some points.

The Black Hole was different in that the tension within the Narrative remained constant. The Narrative was unique too. The film was short in itself, but the plot does peak throughout as the protagonist find more and better ways to use the black hole.

2&2 as a film is also short. Unlike The Black Hole the film is relatively serious and doesn't really have any comic connotations to it, though it's a political satire. The tension is constant throughout it and builds up to a crescendo VERY quickly, and the Narrative itself is based off of similar narratives such as Orwell's 1984.

Overall we can see regarding the narrative that the longer the film is the more leeway the directors and writers have, the more the tension will fluctuate in the film or will shoot up quickly. This is because if a film has a shorter running time then there is not enough space to implement crescendos and fillers in plot. It has to be relentless.

Our short film will roughly be 2-4 minutes, so we almost have the best of both worlds. The short film itself that we produce has space to produce a rich plot, but is short enough that we don't bore our (potential) audience