Clichés of short films

These are a few of the most common mistakes that students make in their short film. This is very useful research for us as we can now rule out all of these techniques and make sure that we wont be going down a dark road before we've even started filming. Below are a list of the most common mistakes made in students films. Looking at previous student films I have witnessed these conventional ideas used in nearly all of them. This is probably from a lack of planning or not being able to come up with a interesting storyline that will engage the audience. This is a wake up call to make sure that none of these mistakes are made in our short film.

Dolly Zoom
Tortured Artist Film
Dream Sequences
Time Elapse Montage
Bad Audio
Wake Up Scene

The website below shows many filmmaker mistakes that are usually applied in students films:

Filmmaker mistakes