Studying short films

As our main product we are to produce a short 5 minute films, so to start we need to gain knowledge of film genres and conventions within them alongside with representations. We also need to have a grasp on key elements of films such as mise en scene, characters, props, lighting, camera, sound and dialogue. To gain this knowledge we will be looking at short films produced, we will be using websites such as BBC Shorts, Virgin Shorts and Channel 4 in the hope that the films on the websites will be well produced and show each of the things listed above clearly so that we can see what exactly it is that we would need to include to create a conventional film of our genre choice.