Self reflexive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXV_Tm6iIw Vivre sa vie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n_r_5RXobM Goodfellas-like a record needle skipping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHweRWh5qcs (20 min in)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHweRWh5qcshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1yUwWG5ikE (1:14 mark)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1yUwWG5ikE The French New Wave A film movement is: 1) films produced within a particular period and/or nation and that share significant traits of narrative and style 2) filmmakers who operate within a common production structure and who share certain assumptions about filmmaking -sometimes these filmmakers even get together and write a manifesto -but a film movement does not need to be that organized Change and Developments in Film Style after WWII 1.Awareness of film history 2.Technical Innovations 3.Filmmakers started using a more fragmented, discontinuous editing style than CHC 4.Narrative changes 5.Films become self reflexive Cinephile: lover of cinema Brechtian -developed by Bertolt Brecht in the 1920's and 30's. -distances the audience from the text (rather than getting caught up in the plot/emotions) and forces them to question the social realities of the situations being presented in the play. -forces viewer to be self reflexive (i.e., thinking of self) while reading/viewing the text Technical Innovations development of new portable, easier to use cameras portable sound equipment development of faster film stock that needed less light Handheld cameras and portable sound equipment changed the way cinema looked and who had access to filmmaking Fast film stock -needs less light to create an image -good for shooting on location where lighting is variable Slow film stock -needs more light to create an image -creates a polished look and balance of greys Cahiers du Cinema critics: 1. criticized contemporary French cinema 2. developed the concept of the film auteur Ben Hur John Ford, auteur -FNW critics equated the directors camera to the authors pen -they argued that certain directors were able to write with film The French New Waves impact came from 4 key films which appeared between : Le Beau Serge (The Good Serge), Claude Chabrol Les Cousins (The Cousins), Claude Chabrol The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard Richard Neupart on the French New Wave: They were all building upon personal and shared aesthetic principles and especially on historical context. They knowingly picked who and what they wanted to react againstand, they all worked very, very hard, even if the results sometimes looked casual and spontaneous. 1.Cinematography look is similar to documentary because shot on location with available light leads to a casual unpolished, often grainy look overexposed and underexposed shotscreates graphic discontinuity used fast film stock 2.Narrative plots are based around chance events and digressive episodes open ended narrative 3. Editing (next slide) Characteristics of the French New Wave Editing in the FNW free editing style, very different from rule of continuity editing this editing makes itself visible, draws attention to itself it can be repetitive, change its pace, etc. These techniques include: Long takes Violations of 180 degree rule Graphic discontinuity Jump Cuts Quick cuts Graphic Discontinuity Example Jump Cut (NOT JUMP SHOT!!!) 30 degree rule states that every camera position should be varied by at least 30 degrees from previous one so if two shots of the same subject are edited together and there is not a sufficient difference in camera distance or camera angle between shot A and Shot B, there will be noticeable jump on screen