Hartismere School

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

Home Login

Short Film Making


Short films are great way to develop your filmmaking skills and make your creative mark. But how do you nagivagate the pitfalls? What are the secrets to getting your film seen? Get some advice from the people that have been there and done just that.

Explore...

What is a frame narrative?

The importance of scene transitions

5 Brilliant Moments of Camera Movement

Opening Shots Tell Us Everything

London Screenwriters' Festival

10 Best Specific Sub-genres of All Time - Movie Lists

One-Minute Time Machine | Sploid Short Film Festival ยท Official Selection

How To Make The Audience Cry

Top 10 Movie Twists of All Time

Stutterer (2015)

New...

E-Safety

Teacher of film studies and/or English

Bronze DofE Enrolment Letter 2026-2027

School Policies

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Enrichment Opportunities (Clubs)

Local Governing Body Information

ParentPay

Discover...

BAFTA Screenplay Film Studies Coursework ZEN Productions GCE Policy School Nurse Trips Film4 Local Governing Body Videos Cinematography Health Bullying Editing Extra-Curricular Forms Narrative Plot Aesthetics Storyboarding

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...