Room 8 Response to Text: Short Film (T4 W4)

 Response to text:

Short Films

Highlight the correct answer or write down the appropriate response.

1. What is the general length of a short film? 

a) Between 30 & 60 minutes                 b) About 5 minutes long

c) Over an hour                                          d) Between 5 & 30 minutes 

2. Why are short films good for beginning filmmakers? 

a) Less risk                                 b) Less cost

c) More freedom                        d) All of the above

3. Explain in your own words why short films are a good place to start filmmaking?

It's very easy and cool plus it's less expensive so in the future you would have enough money for the big budget movies.

4. True or False: Animated films can cost $200,000 per minute of animation.

a) True b) False

5. What do these words mean? Find the word in the article, and use the word in your own sentence.

WORD	SENTENCE
investors	An investor is a person who gives money to companies.
budget	your expenses
innovative	make changes in something like a project, especially by making new methods and ideas.

6. Short films encourage the use of “innovative film techniques”? What do you think this means? New methods and ideas

7. What is one thing (film technique) from the short film “Coin Operated” we watched today that you found different from normal movies? Explain what it was, and why you think the filmmakers made that choice. It was really short but it was meaningful because it is a short film plus there is no talking.