Wii short film/ stop motion

• In our stop motion film challenge we used the Wii game soundtrack and decided to adjust the footage to the sound of the beets of the song. 
• To improve, next time I would aim to make the video longer, with more and diverse scenes and have a better suited ending, rather than having the room empty, the same way it started. I would also make sure the song isn't 'cut' harshly and would rather 'fade away'
• As the song is made of many and very close by beats i found it challenging to cut the short clips, I had to go back and forth a few times, however as I got used to the beat i managed to finish and complete the task.

new wave film brief

 I plan on doing a new wave film, with a focus on montage, while the narrative would be filled by every day life events, influenced from the French New wave . I will film both on a DSLR camera and on a Samsung S9 to create different visual effects.
The narrative would follow the journey of a girl, jumping back from her memories to the present and back. The point being not to follow chronological events but to show the mundane part of life, in a slow pace and what goes on in her head as she travels.

 To achieve that I will also incorporate new wave features such as jump cuts and mixing the sequence in different order; I will also use split screen, and changing colour lenses as used in Jean Luc Godard's Contempt and voice over in Bulgarian with subtitles. I want my work to reflect the new wave style in editing and ideology, using influence from the films that I have analysed.
I would aim to use a range of camera angles to give a feeling of distorition and unease. i would also use aim to film in natural lighting so it would be easier to edit later on and to give the natural and authentic feeling as possible when watching, so the audience is aware they are watching a film.

notes and ideas

• starting of with a voice over and subtitles on the screen as the characters has a short dialogue, as used in the start of 'Jules Et Jim'
• the camera is on the floor, filming crowds of people walking fast
• cut to a sound of tapping shoes on floor, black screen
• screen 'opens' like a curtain to reveal just the feat and the heals of a woman walking slow
• the montage jumps from people walking fast on a busy street, to the woman walking slow on the pavement
• a worms-eye view of buildings after every montage (with colour panels changing each time)
• I will also include short clips filmed on a a phone from a POV 
• In my short film I will focus on the editing and the new wave elements of it rather than narrative, however I will use a voice over to give a quick exposition and an inside into the character's thought, another trait used in New wave films. 

Godard research

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a Franco-Swiss filmmaker and a leading member of the "French New Wave”. Known for stylistic innovations that challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he is universally recognized as the most audacious, radical, as well as the most influential of the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers. His work reflects a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehensive understanding of existential and Marxist philosophy, and a profound insight into the fragility of human relationships.

• ocasional contributor to Cashiers du cinema (founded in 1951 by Bazin and Doniol-Valcroze) writing under the pseudonim Hans Lucas
• 'cinema was not the world itself mgically appearing on a screen in the form of an image...it was bits of stuff, celluloid and magnetic tape, on which real things hadleft their stamp but which now needed to be patched together as the filmaker desired' 1

Godard is as revolutionary and influential a hinge-figure in cinema as Joyce was to literature and the cubists were to painting. He saw a rule and broke it. Every day, in every movie. Incorporating what professionals thought of as mistakes (jump-cuts were only the most famous instance), mixing high culture and low without snobbish distinctions, demolishing the fourth wall between viewing himself as a maker of fictional documentaries, essay movies, and viewing his movies as an inseparable extension of his pioneering work as a film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s.


Breathless:

Car scene conversation-discontinuous editing, no reaction shot, the audience is aware they are watching a movie as jump cuts are contrasting 2 pieces of footage not complimenting it.

bibliography
http://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/jean-luc-godard.shtml

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/02/jean-luc-godard-a-beginners-guide