Pros and Cons of creating a short film

Pros

• Cheaper - short films need a much smaller budget than feature length films. This means that you will save more money than you think.
• Online Marketing - short films can easily be marketed online. The can easily be uploaded onto YouTube or Facebook, this means that it's not very time consuming.
• Quick - making a short film is quicker than producing a feature length film. If the short film is discovered and nominated for an award, it can be a quick way to get into the film industry.

Cons

• It's very difficult and unlikely that short films will make any profit, so therefore it's risky to spend more money than needed.
• It can also be quite difficult to fit a whole storyline into less than 40 minutes.

Comparison with full length

- One of the advantages of short films is that they are often low-budget. Feature length productions can be either high or low budget, depending on the amount of money available. However, the films which are of a higher cost are usually more successful.

- Full Length films can also be marketed through online streaming sites. It's not as easy to show the full film on websites such as Youtube, but trailers can be uploaded.

- The production of a full length film takes a lot longer than that of a short. This is because more footage needs to be recorded and therefore it will need more planning and editing.