NARRATIVE
Fictional Story (sometimes based on real events)
- actors
- animation
- stop motion
DOCUMENTARY
Real events - Documentaries still have a "narrative"
- interviews
- verite scenes
- archival footage/still images/graphics
EXPERIMENTAL
Personal Experience, Introspective or an exploration of film conventions
- Can combines elements from both narrative & documentary
- visceral/conceptual
- found footage
Some of the basic building blocks of the short form (and every film) are:
IMAGE:
- Camera Footage - Interviews/Scenes/Broll
- Stills/Photographs
- Graphical (GFX) - Charts/Maps
- Text - Supers
- Lower Third - Name/ID
AUDIO:
- Voice Over (VO)
- Dialogue
- Sound Effects
- & Music