Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Writing Short Films: 7 Rules Successful Filmmakers Follow


Writing short films are a great calling card for a writer. Writing shorts requires the exact same skills as writing a feature length script.

See also...

An Introduction to Screenwriting - Online Course

Explore...

5 Brilliant Moments of Camera Movement

Top 10 Movie Twists of All Time

Superimposition in film

Night Fishing ~ Chan-kyong Park

The art of storyboarding with Ridley Scott

Why all short films look the same

How To Make The Audience Cry

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Hair Love

Two Cars, One Night (2004)

New...

Our curriculum

Hartismere Family :: Policy Documents

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

Year 7 - Social Media Use

Year 7,8 & 9 Science Homework

Food Studies

External private candidates

School Policies

Discover...

Screenplay Film Studies Coursework ZEN Productions GCE Sharp Minds Editing Test Nutrition YouTube Vimeo Food Ingredients BAFTA Policy NEA Recipes Aesthetics Short Film Cinema Phillip Van

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...