Short films

The Short films are technical descriptions originally from the American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost with short subject.
The short films have no more than 15 minutes and they can have a developed plot but it has to be short because of the time.
Although the North American definition generally refers to films between 20 and 40 minutes, the definition refers to much shorter films in Europe, Latin America and Australasia. In New Zealand, for instance, the description can be used to describe any film that has a duration longer than one minute and shorter than 15 minutes.

The North American definition also tends to focus much more on character whereas the European and Australasian forms tend to depend much more on visual drama and plot twists.
It is a derivation of the feature film form, usually acting as a platform for aspirant Hollywood directors.

The light in the movies

Ligth is one of the most important things in the movies. Without light there is no cinema. The lights creates shadows, wrinkles, rejuvenate the character or make him/her older, it created psychological effects on the character and depending on where you pput the light it changes the atmosphere of the movie. If you don´t use the light for any documental or films, the film will be incomplete, it will be difficult to see what is actually happening during cameras and will not complete the director's truly idea.

Ratas, ratones y rateros

Hi, this week I am goin to talk about an Ecuadorian movie released in 1999. This movie is called Ratas, ratones y Rateros and was filmed by Sebastian Cordero. This film talks about the delinquency of the country and how the thiefs haves to live everyday in poverty, in drugs, and with unhapiness. Is a drama film that talks about the lost of Salvador's childhood and how he had to handle his live living this way.
In this movie they are not special effects, we see here a lot of camera movement, maybe because the director wanted the audience to feel the excitement of beeing in that kind of poor places of the city of Quito. We see a lot of full shots and medium shots. There is a song that is repeated 3 or 4 times around the movie, maybe to make a feeling of suspence.
At the beginning of the movie we see that is a naked part, basically this movie has an strong content, I actually didn´t like it so much, I thougth it has going to be better, but is wasn´t also the worst. It was okay, but for me the movie was to slow, sometimes the dialogues were boring and there is a lot of use of bad words but I think that Sebastian Cordero wanted to make it s real that even the most insignificant details were importants