Short film ideas

Our final task is to create a 5 minute short film of which we have filmed our selves. We can choose from a wide range of genres such as; romance, horror, tragedy, rom com, action, mystery. The two genres in which have stood out to me is a documentary or a comedy.

I personally have a huge interest in documentaries, particularly ones in which specialise in social/political problems about issues within their country. I particularly watch a lot on the issues between Palestine and Israel as I'm half Palestinian therefore this is a topic in which is permanently present. Recently there have been protests all over the world, from london to Berlin to South africa. I attended a protest in London and did a lot of filming as I knew that i wanted to create a film at some point about the conflict and public opinion on these particular issues.

As most documentaries are of a large length it may be difficult to include all of the aspects of a documentary in the space of 5 minutes therefore i did some research on short documentary films and came across a video on how to make a short documentary, in which i found rather helpful: