French New Wave

Question 1

Pre French new wave?

Answer 1

High production values, reliance on stats, genre conventions, privileging the script rather than film language

Question 2

French new wave went against what came before and it’s strong conventions were?

Answer 2

Low budget , unknown actors , non genre films , privileging the film language over the script

Question 3

Characteristics of French new wave?

Answer 3

Shot on location, natural lighting, hand held camera, experimentation with sound, linking devices; Irising, masking, and fade to black to link scenes, uneven tone; from comic to tragic, elliptical editing; removing continuity in time and space between shots; jump cuts

Question 4

Features of classic narrative filmmaking?

Answer 4

Events organised in a cause and effect relationship and progress towards an inevitable conclusion, emphasis in identification with character, there is a high degree of closure.

Question 5

In narrative films it is the linking together of shots and scenes by editing that the?

Answer 5

Forward movement of narrative takes place

Question 6

Continuity editing

Answer 6

Cutting breaks a scene into fragments , editing imitates a space of renaissance painting creating an illusion of depth on a flat screen, aims to orientate the viewer, creates dramatic focus and pacing and mood