As with mainstream film, short films follow the structure of production, exhibition and distribution albeit on a much lower scale and publicly known. This is mainly due to lack of funds, low budgets and all in all tend to be aimed toward a niche audience anyway: thus not having a particular 'way' to advertise etc.
Pathe was an still is a very large company, of which started off, with an advance range of facilities, technology, great marketting and efficient distrubution skills - allowing them to capture a huge share of the international market, for nay of their films. They founded in 1896, and acquired the Lumiere Brothers in 1901. They began their small business and have now grown into a huge company.
Mainstream tend to have a higher budget than short films, this is to pay for actors, crew, props, scenery amnd all sorts to do with production. Obviously successful short films tend to have a small budget which can range anything from zero pounds. One company that has gained a reputation for high quality short films is a production company named ‘silver films’: both "About a girl" and "Endgame" deriving from this companies production. ‘Cow boy Films’ is also an indpendant pridcution company that originally specialises in feature lengths such as The last king of Scotland, but was also the company behind the award winning short film Wasp in 2003, recieving one oscar and 21 other film awards.
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