French New Wave

The French New Wave exploration of storying telling through different techniques of editing and shooting was originally discovered in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Famous film makers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut took their films and subtracted certain frames to create effect an called a jump cut, and shot extra long takes to impact viewers with the reality of the scene instead of an implication of it. For my French New Wave project I will be creating an original film that highlights the feeling of walking alone somewhere you don't know when its late. I want to use handheld techniques and long takes of someone walking to emphasize the feelings of being alone. It will be set in the New Wave time period with a voice over to emphasize a feeling, but it will be mostly silent except for music.

Avant - Garde Films

The purpose of art is not to determine what the viewer thinks, but rather, to prompt the viewers mind to interpret each work. The same goes for avant - garde films. Each piece is the artists interpretation of a feeling or moment, expressed for that filmmaker, by that filmmaker. Those who think of avant - garde as simply "weird" art clearly doesn't understand the point. To express how I'm feeling in a way that is only for me, then throwing it out to the world to prompt a reaction is a very attractive concept for me. I feel like avant - garde is a very pure way to expose myself, while maintain m artistic integrity. A very good resource for avant - garde art is Avant-Garde the magazine, a collaboration between Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lublin.