To increase our knowledge in the production of short films, our teacher brought in a professional in this industry, Rebecca Knapp. She is a film producer and has worked with many script writers therefore has good knowledge of how to make our short films a success.
Rebecca taught us about script writing, what is needed in a short film and how to make them effective by handing out various scripts and showing us a few short films she had made herself.
First of all, she taught us about film lengths putting them into brackets of under five minutes, 5-12 minutes, and then up to 30 minutes.
If a short film was to have a length of five minutes or under producers can not develop into anything, such as a character or a big plot/storyline therefore planning into the film and script has to be done carefully as there can’t be too much to them.
The next length of five to twelve minutes can have more of a plot as well as a slight more depth into the main character(s) however still limited.
A length of twelve to thirty minutes film would have a storyline a lot more developed and a more depth portrait of certain characters. Another story line may be included as well as more main characters to enhance the film's meaning.
Rebecca Knapp also gave us two scripts followed by showing us both the scripts films. We first of all read the script and then had to watch the film to see whether it went along with our thoughts on the script; whether we imagined it to be similar to the film, or had a different image of what it would be like. Also, the film was shown to help us get an idea of what short films are set to be like, as they have a lower budget and less time than films with a longer duration. With these sources given to us, i found out that short films are a lot less developed than i thought, some have a lot more less dialogue, whilst others have an increase of music to represent the message being given.
The first script we read and then watched was called 'Donna.' Its severe lack of dialogue personally made me lose interest as it gave it less of an understanding therefore lack of concentration. However this helped me with my own script as it made me realise more dialogue would help its attraction and popularity.
The second script we read and viewed was called 'Does God Play Football.' This film contained a lot more dialogue, and had a depth-ful meaning to its storyline, giving me the impression that although short films can not go into too much depth of anything, they can still have a short yet meaningful story. 
