Evaluation
To
produce my French new wave video essay I had to conduct vast amounts of
research on why it had such an impact on cinema and how it all began. I started
off my research by just simply researching where the French New Wave began, and
how it was created. I researched the basic information about the film movement
and then started to expand my research more specifically. I then researched the
key individuals who went from writing reviews for the film magazine ‘Cahiers Du
Cinema’. Godard and Truffaut
both shared a vital role in the New Wave as they decided to go from writing
about films, to directing them. I then watched a few of the most famous texts
from the New wave. This included the likes of Godard's 'Breathless' (A Bout De
souffle) and Truffaut's 400 Blows (Les 400 Coups).
For my video
essay I decided to focus the first few minutes on the French New Waves history
and how it all began. I felt by doing this it would give the viewers of my
video essay a good in sight to what the New Wave specifically is and be able to
understand more as my essay went on. I tried to include video clips from the
three films I had chosen to focus on specifically, these were Breathless, 400
blows and Jules and Jim. I felt by using clips from these particular films it
gave the essay more depth as the whole thing linked together. Once I felt I had
gone into enough detail about the context of my chosen new wave I decided to
talk about my chosen films and their directors, Godard and Truffaut. I found it
difficult to find videos of the directors talking about their films and in
interviews so I used clips of their films and began to introduce them into the
video. Once I felt I had given a good explanation on their impact to cinema I
analysed a clip from their film, which were my focused texts within my
research. I felt this gave a good insight into the directors and their films
and also the techniques used within this genre.
I did change
my video essay last minute as throughout the video the text in which I was
using to evaluate my chosen new wave was going over the moving image. After
looking back at my video I found that there wasn’t enough time within the clips
to read the text I had added on top. I resolved this by separating the clips
with the text and using the text as an introduction for the oncoming clips and
found that this worked better.
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