The evolution of short movies

The short form of movies is the most precise and meaningful visual display of your message. Mostly short movies are used to depict some specific problems that exist in the society. Some people find short movies a bit strange and odd as they are usually quite different from that of other normal movies. Usually they target very minor but keen issues that affect our society but are usually not noticed and hence become a silent poison to the society.

In the past few years the art of making short movies has evolved not in our society but throughout the world .as they are more precise and directly affect the very unique and close to heart matters, that is why they have been widely accepted throughout the world. Moreover short movies are moral oriented and are directed in their own style which is usually not seen in the typical movies.

Recently me and my group members came across with a different experience of making a short movie, which was part of our project in an optional video production course, which I found was quite interesting to take. the project considers of all the sections of making a short movies which included pre-production to direction, editing and all the post production work, moreover we as student had to use our own recourses to produce it moreover equipment was being provide to us, so by this way we got a chance to use a Sony HD camera and Apple Mac PC’s for editing in one of the latest professional software. Usually it is thought that making a movie is an easy work especially at this level, just turn on the camera, act in front of it and then copy it to PC using data cable and you are done. But it’s not that simple most of the time is taken by the pre-preproduction work that includes your concept, script, screenplay and the shoot plan. The shooting and the acting is not as difficult work as long as you have done absolutely perfect pre-production work. The art of using camera work is very important. But at this level we had only one camera so we had to take several takes from different angles which was indeed a very hectic and boring work to do. Moreover the advantage we had was the storyline, unique concept and most importantly our technical expertise that we had in the specific field. The movie was music based with the aspect of betrayal and the relationship off the drugs with the music. Having a strong storyline and a different concept was not enough ,after all this work comes the most difficult part which is editing of the movie, and especially when you have to sink your visuals with the sound specially the parts in which you are using musical equipment. That was the most time consuming part which took almost 20 days.

Moreover it is fun making a short movie as long as you are getting reasonable appreciation of your work, and by depicting you’re idea and concept in a perfect way. With the passage of time the industry of short movies has emerged to be very successful and has got reasonable response from the audience. Universities have emerged with specialized degrees in this field. So the future seems to be very bright for prospect people who are interested in this field.

By: Mubashir Altaf