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After watching hundreds of shorts, I've gathered Ten Short Film Cliches that hardly exist today. Being a filmmaker is a tough job; sometimes, we want to go along with the first ideas that come to our mind. But the reality is that if we want to be more successful in the film festival circuit and get into this 1-3% selected films - we need to be different. And using cliches in storytelling, cinematography, or directing doesn't help much with it.

I want to highlight again, that it is not FORBIDDEN to use cliches, it's just better to avoid IF POSSIBLE. If your story NEEDS it - of course, use it, maybe with adding some spice up and a bit in a different way than others - then it will work.

00:00 Introduction
00:57 #1 Morning Routine
01:25 #2 Mirrors
01:49 #3 Vilian smokes
02:23 #4 Nonsense dialogues
02:56 #5 Cheap VFX
03:28 #6 Metaphors
03:46 #7 Zombies
04:06 #8 News Exposition
04:29 #9 VO philosophy
04:53 #10 Trunk shot
05:11 #11 It was a Dream or Film Set