Short film and the internet - Internet stars

  With the internet, short film gone through yet another re-birth and it is now fashionable again to produce short films and people who post videos on YouTube can now become “internet stars”.


  An example of someone who has in a way become well known through the internet is 20somthing Charlie McDonnell from Bath who has been posting videos on YouTube since he was a teenager. The sort of videos which he makes are vlogs (video blogs), which are all about things which happen in his daily life. His videos may be a lot different to the other short films which we have looked at as a class, but you can still categorise his videos as short films.


  During the few years that he has been posting videos on youtube, all of his videos have had a large number of views and some of them have had over 1 million views – not bad for someone who just made his videos in his bedroom.


Below is a video of his in which he opened his gcse results. This shows off Charlie’s style.