Different types of Short film

Although there are various genres of short films sometimes they are made to show a certain incident or event that occurred, or to establish a particular story or thoughts.

• Romance (plots that follow the focus of passion, lust and emotion, usually allows the audience to follow the characters journey for love)
• Comedy (light hearted dramas and can sometimes be humorously dark but are used to make the audience laugh)
• Sci-Fi (often set in futuristic environments that show advances in technology and special effects)
• Drama (often portrays real life situations and based on real people and often used to show humans in their best and worst light)
• Animation (the use of stop motion cinematography or hand drawn to tell a story of any kind)
• Horror (created to scare and terrify the audience)
• Documentary (non fictional, factual works which are mainly narrative based)
• Film noir (is not specifically a genre but rather the mood, style, point of view and tone of a film)
• Action (designed for audience escapism and often have fight scenes, stunts and continuous action that is fast paced due to editing techniques)
• Historical (based on past events)