French new wave

Firstly what is the French new wave? The new wave was a term made by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema.

Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative, are terms used in film history which designate both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between roughly the 1910s and the early 1960s.

Although the movement was never formally organised, the new wave filmmakers were all linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form also their spirit of youthful iconoclasm.

New Wave Conventions of film making:

·         Jump cuts: a non-naturalistic edit, usually a section of a continuous shot that is removed unexpectedly, illogically

·         Shooting on location

·         Natural lighting

·         Improvised dialogue and plotting

·         Direct sound recording

·         Long takes