What is a Short Film?

From my research i believe that a short film has various characteristics that make it different from a feature length Hollywood film. Firstly, the most common way to identify a short film is normally around 10 minutes in length whereas a feature film is about 100 minutes. Short films tend to be experimental and could be described as artistic while the Feature length films often have a formulaic structure.

Lots of short films are not only created for entertainment purposes but are normally real to life and sometimes have an ideological message behind the film. An example of this is the film 'About a Girl' which focuses on the issue of teenage pregnancy. On the other hand the majority of feature films are made solely for profit and therefore are designed to entertain the audience to produce as much money as possible.

Of course, not all short films contain all of the elements i have talked about above but the majority of them do contain these identifiable themes.