Notes on French New wave Lesson

- New wave appeared in a sociological investigation (post war)

-Breaking away from tyranny of narrative in favor of new film and sound language

cahiers du cinema

-A rejection of classical montage style 

- A conviction that best films are a personal artistic expression and should bear a stamp of personal authorship 

(e.g truffaut godard chabrol rivette rohmer)

New wave will ALWAYS be unique and distinctive but usually take something from past wave

Aesthetic

-The auter director is also script writer

-Director doesnt follow script

-Shoots natural locations (often illegally)

-Small crews

-Director opts for direct sound (exists in that world)

-Often uses natural lighting

-Non professional actors

-Directs famous actors in unusual manner

-Aesthetic over narrative

MOST NEW WAVES HAVE AT LEAST SOME OF THESE

Flexibility

-Erasing boundaries between professional and amateur cinema/fiction and doc

-Creativity in filmmaking

-Narrative unrestricted 

-Low budget

-Exploration of contemporary

-Digression and subversion

Techniques

-Alt framing

-Mistakes are kept

-Collabs with cinematographers 

-Natural light

-Handheld camera

-Reportage (hidden cam)

-Fast and sensitive stock

-Self ref (self obsessed)

Editing

-Discontinuity of shot

-Syncopated

-Jump cuts

-Disregard for continuity editing

-Modern montage

-Flash pans

-Rapid reframing from shot to another

-Long take

Sound

-Direct sound 

-Early new wave films- post synched 

- Interior monologues and random comments

- Nagra

-Transcribing direct sound and post synch

- Modern music

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