Short Films And The Internet

Short Films And The Internet

Since the birth of feature films short film have been competing for a place in the industry. It’s incredible hard as the industry there competing in has one goal and that’s profit, unfortunately you don’t get a lot of that with shorts. Wait. Since the invention of the World Wide Web short films have become more and more popular. There is finally a gateway for viewing short films in modern society it obviously had to come. Its perfect for short films as there’s no cost to uploading your film. If you’re an inspiring director you tube and vimeo etc are a god sent as you can get millions of views. Pretty much anyone can upload a short film, short film is all about creativity, new ideas and cutting edge techniques something which the internet indulges in. there are some websites that strictly promote short films, helping inspiring directors.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/
An outstanding website that showcases some of the best shorts in Britain. This website allows anyone to upload there work and anyone to view it. The site also has good search options so you can narrow your choice down from it being genre to director. It’s a bubbly site were ontraponural film investors or makers can go to see fresh talent and hopefully offer them bigger chance in the industry in the future.

http://www.coffeeshorts.co.uk/
A website that is home to award winning films from award winning cultures. This website is easy to work with. It has been created to work hand in hand with my space, face book and blogger so you can promote films even more yet again at no charge. This site has a more specialist touch to it some of the films are chosen and promoted more than others. These sites do offer free viewing of films and help establish actors, director and producers something that wasn’t available 15 years ago.