Tuesday, 22 October 2019

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. 

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