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In this document i will discuss the conventions of short film i have looked at About a girl, Finley and The Tunnel.

About a girl is a short film about this young girl who seemingly feels alone and has no support to pursue her talent. This is shown by how she is not really cared for by her parents who are split up.

 To begin with it follows the length convection by it being 9:51 minutes long, which follows as typically they are between 3-20 minutes long. Where as Finley was around 25 minutes long it had more of a storyline and in depth to what is happening meeting more characters. The Tunnel was around the same length as About a girl but it only has 1 character but uses diegetic and non diegetic audio to portray the story to put you on edge. They all have at least one thing in common and that is they all show a strong emotion. They also all show curiosity which is another convention. They all show this in different ways, such as About a girl makes us curious to why she threw a new born baby into the river, whereas Finley makes us question what he will do next. And in The tunnel we are curious to what was actually in the tunnel to turn him in that way.