M&C FEB S1 Film Styles Comparative Table

Begin completing the table below

Discuss the following Classical Hollywood French New Wave New Hollywood / Blockbusters
element in as much
American New Wave
detail as possible.
1927 early 1960s
List examples. late 1950s late late 1960s early 1980s 1975 onward
1960s
- Not educated - Critics turned directors - Part of baby boomer - Directors are educated
Directors - Apprentice - Young generation from film school
education / (background) - Wrote own stories - Young men - Creative and innovative
background/ - Not an auteur - Were auteurs - Fresh - Have own auteur
employment status - Controlled by (responsible for creating) - Wanted to have a voice - Didnt have total
studios - e.g. Jean-Lucgoddard - Rebellious control of their material
Auteur? - Gave the script and - film critics and film buffs - Film school educated - Spielberg
Eg? actors - e.g Steven Spielberg & -
- No rights to make Martin Scorsese
decision
- E.g. Alfred
Hitchcock
-Short and simple - Disjointed time sequence - Disjointed time sequence - Simple plot
Narrative / Storyline storyline - Improvised dialogue & - told political, feministic & - Formulaic narrative
- Conservative plot social stories in realistic ways - Easy to follow
-With solution - anti-authoritarian - Extravagant
- e.g. easy rider - Large-scale
Eg? - Cross-section of people

- Unknown actors - Hired cast & crew for - From film college or New
Stars - Bound by contract (6 to - Youth individual projects Hollywood
 8 years contract) - Can work with different - Nice appearance
- Given new names and directors - High cutting techniques
looks
Eg? -Associated with genres
- Emphasis on their image

-Film were clean and - Appealing to teens - To the teenage demographic - People from all ages can be
Mainstream appeal suitable for families - e.g. Grease & Saturday attracted
- Three color technic Night Fever
Eg: Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs

- Tight (couple cant - Towards the end of Hays - Hays Production Code
Censorship? sleep in a same production codes reign became more incongruous
bed) - Broke way from with societal norms
- From 1934-1968 censorship - Film violence became
(Hays Production - Able to explore taboo common place
Eg? Code) topics (e.g. sex, drugs, - The code gave way to the
language, violence) Rating System
- Nudity & sex featured more
subtly
- Actresses were expected - Complex, troubled young - Popularity of the anti-hero - Young and attractive
Characters to look and behave like people
ladies - Anti-hero
- Men were expected to
look and behave like
Eg? gentlemen
- hero and bad guy
- Continuity cutting - Hand-held cameras - Very long takes - Shorter clips
Camerawork and problems - Breaking the fourth wall - Hand-held cameras - A lot of computer
Editing - Matching techniques - Jump cut edits special effects
(eyeliner) - Very long takes - CGI
 - Transition (fades & - Broke the 180 degree - Experimenting with
Eg? dissolves) rule different editing styles
- Cross Cutting (parallel - Nearly perfect
editing) continuity
- 180 degree rule
- Seamless
Music / Soundtrack - Natural Sounds (e.g. - Signature rock & pop music - The music connected to the
birds, cars, etc) - Sound that has been movie
- Frenchmen Martial enhanced - become a brand
Solos Jazz - Gets complex and - e.g. Frozen
sophisticated

- Inside a studio - Guerilla-style on the - Shooting from studios to - Everywhere

Setting - streets, without permission real locations - Green screen
- Outdoor, on-location
scenes

Eg?

- 3 point lighting (key - Natural lighting - High investment

Lighting light, back light and fill - CGI
light) - Digitally enhanced
- Outdoors

- Plot follow a three-act- - dialogue was to appear - improvs

Script? structure natural - dark endings

- Very conservative - Look of films copied by

Further comments college audience
on Mise-en-scne or - Parisian style, fashion
the look of the film

- Vaudeville - By foreign films - The economy of

Influences merchandises (Clothes, food,
toys, etc)
- Taken a lot from all the other
time frames

KNOW AT LEAST 2 WELL*

- e.g. Blockbusters _________________ in comparison Classical Hollywood____________________