How the internet has changed Short film

The internet has been the saviour to short film, enabling it to regain its once highly regarded place in the film industry. The internet has acted as a portal allowing anybody’s experiments and ideas to be viewed, rated and shared by the masses.

The different styles and genres of short film are broad so sites such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh etc. offer the public a chance to share their short films and see them appreciated by others with interests in that particular field.

Thanks to the internet, short films can rapidly be spread from person to person. Social networking sites such as Facebook & Twitter mean that if just one person were to share a video with their friends list, it could potentially be viewed by more than a thousand people.

However it isn’t just amateurs who use the internet to show their short films. Top film directors also do this including director Spike Jonze. His short film ‘I’m here’ was made available via the internet. This is fast becoming the case for many directors. At the click of a button a director can get worldwide recognition without even needing a budget.

Now that more and more people are using the internet (2010 world statistics- 6,845,609,960 people worldwide) and the internet can be reached virtually anywhere - phones, home, work, school etc. the future for short film seems as though it can only get bigger and continue to grow.