Convergance

Convergence describes the way in which media products cross over and can perform many different tasks. This ultimately means that short films are more and more accessible with the development of new technologies and convergence. Many mobile phones now have the ability to access the internet and sites such as youtube where shorts can be exhibited. Phones such as the popular Apple iPhone and Blackberry have this capability and nearly all new phones produced in the coming years will have this capability. New Samsung televisions now also internet capabilities as well as games consoles such as the Playstation 3 and the xbox 360.

On top of this television providers such as Sky TV have channels dedicated to short film such as 'Shorts International'. The BBC and other channels also often show short films in gaps in there schedules. This maybe would not have happened as much when there were only a limited amount of channels and air time.