Difficulties with short film

Although short film allows for a greater variety of narratives and filming styles, it also comes with difficulties and limitations. What I believe to be the main difficulty with shooting a successful short film is not having the time to establish good characterisation. As I've said before, characterisation is the process of conveying a character through speech, thought or through the character's actions. Displaying a character's background and personality through speech and actions takes time and lots of dialogue. This is a luxury that is not available when shooting a short film. The minimal characterisation that is used in short film has to be basic, as anything detailed needs to time and multiple scenes to develop. This will be a problem when shooting my piece as well. With only 5 minutes, there is minimal time to establish characters, and so maybe I need to concentrate more on creating an interesting storyline than displaying good characterisation.