Category Archives: Short Film

7 Positive Steps to Successful Creative Content Marketing

Posted on 16/06/2020 by Phil

Marketing for Creatives Digital exports are a major growth point for the creative industries. A Creative Industries Federation report estimated that they were worth £46bn in 2016, a figure which is probably considerably higher in 2020, despite Covid-19.  In addition,the … Continue reading →

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Money for Creatives Part 2: Specific Creative Work

Posted on 14/06/2019 by Phil

As part of BCre8ive’s work on developing support for creatives in the UK this is the second in a new series of blogs  linked to our series on local creative cluster development. Each of us tends to work in one … Continue reading →

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‘Can you Learn to Write?’

Posted on 04/07/2016 by Phil

This blog is an extract from Chris Trengove’s blog on ‘Can you Learn to write?’  Chris is a BCre8ive Creative Champion, one of our team of experienced advisors who support our work on developing new ideas, mentoring talent, and creative … Continue reading →

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Creative Story Development 2 : Short and Feature films

Posted on 19/04/2016 by Phil

This blog is part of a series of development frameworks for narrative screenworks from mobile and short films to long running TV series.  The aim of the series is to look at the very first stage of development, when an … Continue reading →

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Creative Story Development 1 – Mobile/Web shorts

Posted on 15/04/2016 by Phil

Development is a process of discovery especially in the early stages, what seemed like a great idea an hour ago when put to the test of a few simple questions may have some obvious limitations. The point is not that … Continue reading →

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What Value is a Short Film/Video?

Posted on 03/06/2015 by Phil

This guest blog is written by BCre8ive Mentor Clifton Stewart. The First Question? How long is a short? A question film makers, particularly new ones, often ask when deciding to embark on making a ‘great short’ They know that a … Continue reading →

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First Steps in Development – Active Questions

Posted on 28/05/2015 by Phil

After selecting your idea – see blog Selecting an Idea – this blog, First Steps in the art of development, written by Phi Parker, co-founder of BCre8ive, is about the active questions you need to make your idea engage an … Continue reading →

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Selecting a Creative Idea

Posted on 14/05/2015 by Phil

We all have great ideas, or too many, or just one, the problem is how do you go about selecting an idea to work on. In this blog, Phil Parker, co-founder of BCre8ive, looks at the initial stages of developing … Continue reading →

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10 Most Asked Quetions About Short Films

Posted on 07/05/2015 by Phil

This blog is written by Phil Parker. Co-fouder of BCre8ive and in the context of examples, and discussions, of short films being held at Visegard Animation Forum in Czech Republic. Short film covers, of course, live action and animation, as … Continue reading →

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