RESEARCH: SHORT FILM ADVICE
Short Film festivals have given me a huge amount of eye opening inspiration. It also helped me as it showed me practice tips and understanding about the short film festival environment and how to present an award winning treatment.
It was very useful to use this treatment to help us make our short film, as it was very useful to use and it helped us as it was clear and insightful. It allowed us to know what we needed to do in order for our short film to be successful.
Link for the Edinburgh Short Film Festival
An article written by Lee of Shore scripts showed a range of different practical tips, which allow the film to be submitted easier into the short film environment. However, we are at the stage of deciding our treatment, and the advice that shocked us most was the third point in their which said "Make sure that the film has something to say and the film will take the viewer on a journey". This means that in order for the film to be entered into a film festival, it would have to have a meaningful story line.
Here's Less of Shore Scripts treatment:
Investigating how young film makers use festivals and competitions has offered you and your Production Team very useful insight into the process of getting a short before audiences and distributors.
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