If you’re a regular reader of this column you’ll know that I rage quite regularly against padding. Superfluous sequences or characters that exist merely to stretch a modicum of plot into the requisite 90 minutes expected by most viewers, but which inevitably serves to bring the momentum of the film to a grinding, frustrating halt. It’s all-too common in no-budget productions, where scripts are inevitably underdeveloped and end up running ten or twenty minutes shorter than originally planned. Which is why I LOVE me some shorts! Yes, the microbudget short film has been sadly devalued, but the preponderance of short
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