Task 9 - Non continuity editing

French new wave

French New Wave was created from film makers such as Jean Luc Gogard and Francois Truffaut and they pushed the limits of a variety of editing techniques and create a new style called "French New Wave".
Non-continuity editing was popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s and it basically was a style of film making.  What French New Wave films did was use carefree editing styles and they did no conform to the traditional editing etiquette of hollywood films.
French New Wave editing captured attention to itself by its lack of continuity and its self-reflective nature helped the audience to remember that they were watching a film.
What they did to keep the audience surprised and intrigued was using material things in the scenes which don't relate to the narrative.

Most modern film makers still use the 180 degrees technique/rule to give the scenes a startling effect for the viewers but a movie that ignored this rule was 'A Bout de Souffle'. What they did was in the car scene the background kept changing and this made the viewers jump and realise the background changed and thy skipped some of the journey.

                         


Another way of directing the audience would be by breaking the 180 degree rule. The camera usually stays on the side of the imaginary line. For example directors like Stanley Kubrick was against this rule because he wanted to play with the viewers minds. In The shining movie it goes against the rule and you can see it in the scene clip and how the rule is broken.



Another director who went against the 180 degree rule was Gary Rose in the film Hunger Games. The camera should stay on one of the sides of the imaginary line but Gary Ross changed the camera completely so this caused us to be able to see the room from a whole different direction so that we could see everything. This was beneficial for the audience in the way of making the film look even more realistic because they were able to see everything within that room as if the audience was also there.