Short film- Inspiration week. What is short film?

Within this lesson we listed as many possibilities as to what a short film could be. Here is my list:

• A number of incidents/occurences that happen that collaborate to make a narrative.
• Something with a message that influences the content.
• Structure- beginning, middle, end.
• Myths, hearsay, elaborated as time goes on through different generations.
• Something from the imagination.
• Grandparents- tradition-religion-generations.
• Books, tales, myths;greek, biblical, legends, fables, folktales, fairytales, tribal stories.
• Once upon a time, the end.
• Setting, plot characters.
• Structure; equilibrium, disequilibrium, restoration. Plot.
• Theme/genre.
• Series of events.
• Made to educate, entertain, inform. Popular culture.
• Cave paintings, Eqyptians, illustrations, hyroglyphics.
• Poetry, all differnet types of media.
• How one follows another. 'Kuleshov effect'
• Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
• Stories are culturally specific and give us comfort in life.