Within the past 10 years, Short Film have become a growing features on the World Wide Web. With new technology advancements and the introduction of the masse public interaction being able to interact with the internet, it has been increasingly easy to view, share, upload and exhibit short films worldwide.
YouTube have been a fundamental tool in providing amateur directors a place where they can upload and share video composed from all video content and genre up to the internet. In May 2010, it was estimated that YouTube had 14.6 billion videos on their website, which was viewed by 144.1 million people daily. It is stated that each YouTube user watched an average of 101.2 video during May.
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Many sites on the internet cater for specifically short films. Examples of websites are:
Coffee Shorts: http://www.coffeeshorts.co.uk/
Coffee Shorts stream Independent short films across a range of styles. Styles they include are
- Narrative Short films.
- Experimental short films
- Music videos.
- Documentary short films
- Animated Shorts.
Coffee Shorts was set up simultaneously with their production company which they have a team foe experts making film. Coffee Shorts passion for sharing exceptional content led to the sites progression and to the growing reputation they have obtained.
BBC Film Network: http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/BBC Film network is a online community to provide new film makers with guideline, advice, support and a platform to showcase their work.
The films featured on BBC Film Network are form a wide variety of topics and background, and all tackles issues with uniqueness.
BBC Film network have expanded and crossed over many platforms within the media world. They have a virtual cinema in popular online virtual game, SecondLife. The SL users can teleport to a location within the game world and watch shorts films.
Penelope Rose Bartlett, the programmer for the short-film section of the Chicago International Film Festival, argues: "The best short films should feel complete and self-contained, not like truncated features. The constraints imposed by the time limit in a short film make it challenging to develop convincing characters, so I'm always impressed by shorts with characters that feel real."
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3334789.ece
I feel as the Internet grows and develops, Short films will become a distinctive element within its growth. It is estimate that over 150,000 shorts films online, which is a exceeding number growing daily. It will spark a new generation of short film lovers and give aspiring directors, actors and media fanatics, a new method of networking.
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