Narrative in Short Films

Narrative

What is Narrative?

The way in which a story is told in both fictional and non-fictional media texts.

The narrative of most short films usually include twists and turns in order to make the short film more interesting due to the length of the film, therefore it needs to be enjoyable for the audience, it needs to keep them entertained. 

One of the differences between the narratives of short and feature films is that in the full length ones, there is more tension and suspense as they have the time to full develop a storyline and the characters as well and then the director portrays a shock ending, leaving the audience surprised, which in turn, keeps them interested in the film, however short films haven't got that much time, so everything is condensed to about 5 minutes worth of film, so in order to keep the audience entertained, one must have an enigma, as everything else is going to be too short to explain.

Like the plot twists at the end of 'The Others';