Shorts Don’t Need To Be Perfect

When you’re making your first film, it’s easy to feel like it has to be perfect. The perfect script. The perfect performances. The perfect camera moves. But one of the best pieces of advice we can give new filmmakers is this: your first film should be short, not perfect.

Short films get finished

The biggest advantage of a short film is that it actually gets made. Smaller runtimes mean fewer shooting days, fewer locations, and fewer chances for momentum to stall out.